Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President of 26 states.
6th The General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints met this morning in the Tabernacle of the Lord in Great Salt
Lake City. Orson Hyde called the meeting to order before the presidency
got there which was a little before the time of 10 oclok President Young showed
us this was wrong that He was the president of the Church & we should have
waited for him to have opened the meeting it did not Enter the mind of
any of the Twelve but what it was right at the Time Lorenzo Snow opened
by Prayer E. T. Benson spoke followed by Presidents D. H. Wells H. C. Kimball
& B. Young in the fore noon. In the afternoon offices voted for then
John Taylor Isaac Morley & G. A. Smith Preached. In the evening the High
Priests & Bishops met at the 13th ward assembly rooms. The Bishops made
there reports of the teams going East for the poor reported all ready & the
grain tithing in various parts of the country reported President Young
spoke to the people upon various subjects said we should want to take
East flour for 1000 of our Emigration 200 lbs Each making 200,000 lbs
He also spoke upon the subject of thieveing He called upon the Bishops
to clens their wards of all thieves to cut them off from the Church
& from the Earth. He spoke in grate plainness
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