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Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:June 21, 1849 ~ Thursday 21st I [l]anded at Thomaston at 4 oclok and called upon Benjamin Knowlton. I was quite unwell had a severe attack of the Diarhea I had an interview with Br John Luce, I spent the night with Mr Knowlton distance 100 m June 22, 1849 ~ Friday [2]2nd I am sick this morning taken cold went to John Luce and went ◊◊ed a man by the name of W. Whitman Hilman, he felt that he ...Dates:June 21, 1849 June 22, 1849 June 23, 1849 June 24, 1849 June 25, 1849 June 26, 1849 -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:The following speech was deliverd by Mr Copway or Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bow the Chief of the Ojewa Nation before a large audience in New York City On the eve of Dec 15 1849 Ladies, Gentlemen, American Citizens. Of necessity my address this evening must be short. Yet I will touch upon a few prominent items which I consider important to the subject in which I feel deeply interested There are certain events which stand forth in bold relief of deep interest in the history of evry nation under heaven ... -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:I am going to Washington so on to lay my Petition before the Congress of the United States and urged them to grant my Prayer for the benefit of both the white and Red men. I want your aid, I want you to sign my petition that the voice of thousands may be bheard in behalf of this petiontion. I want the names of Legeslators Governors and American citizens in General that my prayer may be heard & answerd. Give the North American Indians A home, a place whare the ... -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:will cut off those wicked and unjust stewards and Appoint them Portion with Hypocrites & unbelievers. One glance at the signs of 1849 in the United States will show that the Lord has commenced to fulfill his promise And He will not scease untill it is finished There has never been A year since the esstablishment of the United States Government, when there has been so great a loss of property & life by fire & Pestilence, or such an increase of mobs or confusion and Perplexity in the Government as in 1849. Among the most ... -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:ready to leave at night it was A Hard days work I settled up all my busines And the boat started at dark And Brothers Leonard Hardy & Russell was left on shore they afterwards came down & the Captain took them on. I went to bed worn down & nearly sick. I bought $40 dollars worth of groceries & provisions one ton flour, one stove, took on bord 11 waggons for I. F. Carter learned that He had arived with the goods & gone to Council Bluffs on ...Dates:May 3, 1850 May 4, 1850 May 5, 1850 May 6, 1850 May 7, 1850 May 8, 1850 May 9, 1850 -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:the grave of John C Campbell & a child buried to day from Br Snows company of cholera June 28, 1850 ~ Friday 28 Our Teamsters had another blow up this morning 5 or 6 gold diggers who were driving baggage waggons said they would leave their object was to take advantage of our situation & compel us to pay high wages for driving I told them they might quit as quick as they pleased And they would none of them go I turned off Williams ...Dates:June 28, 1850 June 29, 1850 June 30, 1850 July 1, 1850 July 2, 1850 July 3, 1850 July 4, 1850 July 5, 1850 -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:forever while the office of president of the U.S would not last but 4 or 8 years I should be glad to live to see the day when their should not be a Kingdom or government on Earth ownly that ordained of God to govern the world I do not know as I shall live to see it but I have much desired it for a man to desire to live merely to get honor to himself would not be right but for him to desire to live to honor God & build ... -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:one is here who went to Jackson County in 1831 The feeling was If I could get with the Saints all my sorrow & trouble would be at an End so it is with the Saints in England. Before we preached the gathering to them the lord revealed to them that they would be gathered we told them not to reveal it untill the time came do you have any thing now that you looked for in the begining if not sumthing is the matter you ... -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:March 27, 1847 ~ Saturday 267th I attended the funeral of sister Burnham & took the family to the grave after the return Br G. A. Smith had my team to go to the grave to bury one of his family during the evening I took a ride out with my family & friends around the city & down the river Bank I wet my feet & returned home March 28, 1847 ~ Sunday 28th ...Dates:March 27, 1847 March 28, 1847 March 29, 1847 March 30, 1847 March 31, 1847 April 1, 1847 April 2, 1847 -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1853)
Excerpt:se it we have the Head ake we cannot se that (yet it exist) because we are in the body but if we were out of the body we could se it we should advance in the phylosophy of Eternal things and learn as we live when we go to the House of feasting we go to feast our bodies when we go to the house of mourning we mourn as it were in spirit and our minds are called to serious truths but what would really be a case of mourning it would be to follow a person ...Dates:February 13, 1853