I was not well this morning I went to the office in the morning
I went to my grass lot & farm I put up my fence at my
grass lot & visited my farm I found all the crops looked well
Except the sugar cane which was backward
~ Tuesday
24 I spent the forenoon at home & afternoon in the office
26 I spent a part of the day in the officea& a part in the garden
we have a great deal of mail of late that which has been lying
back for 2 months we got a telegraph to day the north & South
are constantly fighting
~ Friday
27 We got a long telegraph to day which brought up the back
news to this period they have had some hard fighting
of Late. I spent most of the day in the garden & reading
~ Saturday
28 I spent the fore noon in the Endow[me]nt House we gave Endow[men]ts to
24 persons & D. H. Wells sealed 18 couple.
~ Sunday
29 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning & attended
meeting through the day in the Bowery. President Young preached in the
morning upon the subject of Apostacy & death including Joseph
Morris and those gathered with him at South webber He said
if he had had his own way he would have let them staid &
rotted there He would not have disturbed them but Judge Kinney thought the Law must be honored & magnifyed & he
called out a posse & it cost the lives of two innocent men of that
posse & several of the Morrisites were Killed but one drop of blood
of an innocent man is worth more than that whole company of
thieves & I warn all men in this Church not to baptize one of
that company without my consent if you do you will stand
a chance of looseing your own standing. That whole company
are guilty of sheding innocent Blood & would have shed the blood
of Every righteous man on the Earth if they had the power. they
will not obtaine salvation Except it be through Hell fire & not much
then G. A. Smith followed. In the afternoon Daniel Carnes & H C.
Kimball spoke I met G A S for Prayer I prayed G A S was mouth
~Monday
June 23d1862
I was not well this morning I went to the office in the morning
I went to my grass lot & farm I put up my fence at my
grass lot & visited my farm I found all the crops looked well
Except the sugar cane which was backward
~Tuesday
24 I spent the forenoon at home & afternoon in the office
26 I spent a part of the day in the office& a part in the garden
we have a great deal of mail of late that which has been lying
back for 2 months we got a telegraph to day the north & south
are constantly fighting
~ Friday
27 We got a long telegraph to day which brought up the back
news to this period they have had some hard fighting
of Late. I spent most of the day in the garden & reading
~ Saturday
28 I spent the fore noon in the Endowment House we gave Endowments to
24 persons & D. H. Wells sealed 18 couple.
~ Sunday
29 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning & attended
meeting through the day in the Bowery. President Young preached in the
morning upon the subject of Apostacy & death including Joseph
Morris and those gathered with him at South webber He said
if he had had his own way he would have let them staid &
rotted there He would not have disturbed them but Judge
Kinney thought the Law must be honored & magnifyed & he
called out a posse & it cost the lives of two innocent men of that
posse & several of the Morrisites were Killed but one drop of blood
of an innocent man is worth more than that whole company of
thieves & I warn all men in this Church not to baptize one of
that company without my consent if you do you will stand
a chance of looseing your own standing. That whole company
are guilty of sheding innocent Blood & would have shed the blood
of Every righteous man on the Earth if they had the power. they
will not obtaine salvation Except it be through Hell fire & not much
then G. A. Smith followed. In the afternoon Daniel Carnes & H C.
Kimball spoke I met G A S for Prayer I prayed G A S was mouth
"Journal (January 1, 1860 – October 22, 1865)," June 23, 1862 - June 29, 1862, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/lOB5