and John Taylor And many other friends
I pithed my tent & encampment on a Bluff
near Elders Taylor & P P Pratt we had hard
rain at night. we held a council in the evening
about raising 500 volunteers for the President
of the U. S. to go to upper Calafornia via Santa fe
we wrote A letter & signed it to be carried through
the camp. Distance from Pisgah to the Bluffs 160 miles
~ Friday
10th A Hard rainy morning. I deliverd up the
16 shooter sent by me to Br Lefingwell
~ Saturday
11th ^
^ I spent the day in the camp assisting to
gather the volunteers we had a visit from
Col Cane from the city of Washington confir-
ming the declaration that President Polk had
sent for 500 Mormon volunteers He informed
us that the President was vary favorable to
our people And had taken this course for our
good. Col Cane manifested the spirit of a
Gentleman And much interest in our welfare
from the information we recieved from him
we were convinced that God had began
to move upon the heart of the President
And others in this Nation to begin to act
for our interest And the general good of
Zion. The object of President Polk now is
to enlist 500 of the Latter Day Saints Arm
feed cloth & pay them, And let them
go direct to Calafornia via Santa fe & take
possession of that contry And prepare a
way for the body of the Church to come
which will make us the first settellers
of that country
and John Taylor And many other friends I pithed my tent & encampemnt on a Bluff near Elders Taylor & P P Pratt we had hard rain at night. we held a council in the evening about raising 500 volunteers for the President of the U.S. to go to upper Calafornia via Santa fe we wrote A letter & signed it to be carried through the camp. Distance from Pisgah to the Bluffs 160 miles
~ Friday
10th A Hard rainy morning. I delivered up the 16 shooter sent by me to Br William Leffingwell Sr.|Lefingwell
~ Saturday
11th [FIGURE] I spent the day in the camp assisting to gather the volunteers we had a visit from Col Cane from the city of Washington confirming the declaration that President Polk had sent for 500 Mormon volunteers He informed us that the President was vary favorable to our people And had taken this course for our good. Col Cane manifested the spirit of a Gentleman And much interest in our welfare from the information we recieved from him we were convinced that God had began to move upon the heart of the President And others in this Nation to begin to act for our interest And the general good of Zion. The object of President Polk now is to enlist 500 of the Latter Day Saints Arm feed cloth & pay them, And let them go direct to Calafornia via Santa fe & take possession of that country And prepare a way for the body of the Church to come which will make us the first settellers of that country
