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- ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES MONROE. ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES MONROE.12 KB (2,076 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...he First Judicial District Court of the United States for The Territory of Utah, to the Jury, on the Trial of Howard Egan for the Murder of James Monroe]] We went to the city of Provo, in Utah Valley; where I had some business to attend to. We tarried there a short ti30 KB (5,672 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...as far as I have one on the subject, concerning these difficulties in this territory, north and south, pertaining to our brethren, the Lamanites. My testimony t ...t is absolutely necessary to do this, I shall do it. If the people of Utah Territory would do as they were told, they would always be safe. If the people in San37 KB (7,159 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...SITION TO AND PREJUDICE AGAINST THE TRUTH—THE JUDGES AND THE DELEGATE OF UTAH—THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—POTENCY OF THE GOSPEL ...SITION TO AND PREJUDICE AGAINST THE TRUTH—THE JUDGES AND THE DELEGATE OF UTAH—THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—POTENCY OF THE GOSPEL22 KB (4,189 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...sition to and Prejudice Against the Truth—The Judges and the Delegate of Utah—The Spirit of God and the Spirit of the World—Potency of the Gospel]] .... I have also made two trips annually through the southern portions of the territory, visiting all the Branches, taking considerable time and a great deal of in23 KB (4,375 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...old General Harris, and to his heirs after him. That valley over yonder—Utah Valley, belongs to old General Wolf's heirs; and there's another valley, th ...e, as a community, shall adopt; not as a county, not as the Legislature of Utah, not as civil and military officers, but as officers and members of the Chu41 KB (8,061 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...sinks within him. I can find thousands of just such men and women in this territory. When they are brought to this place, they do not know their benefactors, w ...ne individual, and that is a man by the name of Thomas Green, who lives in Utah, and one young woman, who came from {{page break|326|top}} England, there h20 KB (3,797 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...the South-west Corner Stone of this Temple, in Salt Lake Valley, and Utah Territory, has been laid by the Aaronic Priesthood, which is in connection with the M12 KB (2,043 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...forced to the necessity of stealing it? Is there a house in this city, or territory, that will refuse a hungry person a meal of victuals, when he has not been ...here are also hundreds of persons in this city, and in other cities in the territory, who require the Bishops to help them, when at the same time they are able15 KB (2,969 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...her His Saints, and we are already gathered, a great host of us, into this territory; but let me tell you this is hardly a beginning; many nations are yet to be ...nitude that it begins to be a great mountain, not merely to fill one small territory, but as Daniel said, "it became a great mountain and filled the whole earth26 KB (4,980 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...ly is this fulfilled in the followers of Joe Smith, that have gone to Utah Territory; there they are in a salt and barren land, and they do not know when good c34 KB (6,660 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...r immigration. They can come by thousands, and be dispersed throughout the Territory among the Saints, and find comfortable homes, and it is scarcely known and ...al operations, and pay up the debt. I reckon that six or eight thousand in Utah could act upon this principle.13 KB (2,554 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...t escutcheon of their country, here in the very heart of the United States territory, surrounded by tall mountains; they consider it a dark spot in the country' ...oung says he does not know of but one old bachelor in all the Territory of Utah, and he has gone to the States; therefore I have nothing more to say on thi45 KB (8,717 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...h is gone, and now brother Brigham Young, the Governor of the Territory of Utah, is our Prophet, our leader, our Revelator; and it is for me and you to lis24 KB (4,759 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...can see the working of the Lord, not only in our midst—not only in Utah Territory, in the midst of the people of God who assemble in this Tabernacle—it is16 KB (3,077 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...least militates against us not even to our excluding common law from this Territory. I can inform our lawyers who plead at the bar here, that the Congress of t ...fice; for when the President appoints another man to be Gove[r]nor of Utah Territory, you may acknowledge that the Lord has done it, for we should acknowledge H43 KB (8,245 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...reat Salt Lake in the Valleys of the Mountains, in the settlements of Utah Territory—there is Zion now. But you perceive when you come here the same covetous ...erogatory to the principles of righteousness. We can make the Territory of Utah one of greatest sinks of iniquity upon the face of the whole earth, and exc38 KB (7,119 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |H=UTAH DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON—U.S. GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: UTAH DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON—U.S. GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS18 KB (3,460 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../48|Utah Delegate to Washington—U.S. Government and Officers]] ...a good deal of pleasure in preaching in the different settlements of this territory, wherever I have had the opportunity of meeting with the Saints; but it is39 KB (7,221 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ..., referring especially to this Territory. Provo is also the County Seat of Utah County, gathering to its centre a great amount of county business, at any r ...r illustration of the necessity of Saints being united. There is a city in Utah County, by the name of Springville; in consequence of a little division whi29 KB (5,515 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...Judicial District Courts of the United States, in and for the Territory of Utah. We are called upon on this solemn occasion as a Territory to mourn the loss of one who has occupied a distinguished position among us17 KB (3,118 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...ty without they pay for it with their labor, if they are able. That is for Utah, not for England, France, Ireland, &c. It is plain to you that circumstance ...en fifty-six thousand dollars owing to the P. E. Fund, by brethren in this Territory; some of the debtors have run away, but the most of them are here. Can thes19 KB (3,700 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...r scenes of trials to those passed through by the earlier settlers of this Territory. Should all this people here in Utah be called to pass through such scenes as some of us have been called upon t26 KB (4,882 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- Do you suppose that I will thus far bow down to any man in this Territory, or on the earth? Do you suppose that I will suffer myself to be so muzzled ...who are among them; why I hear that they kill the wicked away up yonder in Utah." They do not kill anybody down there, do they?29 KB (5,716 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...Benson, Delivered July 13, 1855, at a Conference held at Provo City, Utah Territory. ...Church. It is humbug to talk about first regulating a city, a county, or a territory; but start with a family at a time, and let the Bishop who presides see wha49 KB (9,285 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE NECESSITY OF A LIVING PRIESTHOOD—THE UTAH LEGISLATURE |T=Journal of Discourses 3: THE NECESSITY OF A LIVING PRIESTHOOD—THE UTAH LEGISLATURE7 KB (1,194 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../26|The Necessity of a Living Priesthood—The Utah Legislature]] ...ny, and views, in relation to our visit to the capital of the Territory of Utah.12 KB (2,258 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...apprised that his course was found fault with when he was in the county of Utah, and more especially while in a place called Payson. While I was in Fillmor ...om. A lawyer rose to make his plea before the jury; he took up the laws of Utah, which are strict and pointed in reference to lawyers making pleas, binding20 KB (3,743 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...s have planted the Saints in the midst of the mountains, have given them a Territory and a Territorial Government, and will, ere long, give them a free and inde ...out the States and all Europe, that "Governor Young says he is Governor of Utah and will be, and that President Franklin Pierce cannot remove him from the23 KB (4,210 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...concentration of the Saints from the distant nations of the earth into one Territory their numbers give them power which they never could gain in a scattered co ...at respect would it be a favor and a privilege for the inhabitants of this Territory, composed mostly of Latter-day Saints, to be organized into a free and inde29 KB (5,293 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...e by President Heber C. Kimball, in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, June 29, 1856. ...n blest and multiplied this season, for I know there was not enough in the Territory to sustain the people. However, the present scarcity is one of the best thi22 KB (4,320 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...by President B. Young, Delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, August 17, 1856. ...here; but the most of the people now inhabiting this {{page break|23|top}} Territory never beheld the face of our Prophet; even quite a portion of this congrega43 KB (8,315 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...nt cry, "Treason, treason, we are going to have trouble with the people in Utah." What is the matter? Wherein can they point out one particle of injury tha ...and five hundred dollars fine. How will they get rid of this awful evil in Utah? They will have to expend about three hundred millions of dollars for build34 KB (6,501 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...od—Our Heavenly Father—A Privilege Given to all the Married Sisters in Utah]] ...to you who are now present, and to the inhabitants of this city and of the Territory generally, and we do not excuse any of you.7 KB (1,374 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...OD—OUR HEAVENLY FATHER—A PRIVILEGE GIVEN TO ALL THE MARRIED SISTERS IN UTAH ...OD—OUR HEAVENLY FATHER—A PRIVILEGE GIVEN TO ALL THE MARRIED SISTERS IN UTAH23 KB (4,453 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...od—Our Heavenly Father—A Privilege Given to all the Married Sisters in Utah]] ...of the Lord, that there would not be a professed Latter-day Saint in this Territory, but what would live his religion. They think we are all one, but when the21 KB (4,047 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...|p=468}}. Rockwell later acquired "a reputation as a gunslinging lawman in Utah." Smith petitioned Congress to make Nauvoo an independent territory with the right to call out federal troops in its defense.45 KB (6,363 words) - 20:13, 11 May 2024
- who led his faction to the [[Utah Territory]] and incorporated [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], who37 KB (5,298 words) - 20:12, 11 May 2024
- ...and I may here say that the Presidency have preached to the people in this Territory, not only for the last month, but for the last year, and I have thought tha ...an there should have been in a thousand: we have had more stealing here in Utah than has been for our credit, and when you have taken up that you may also24 KB (4,652 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...marks by H. C. Kimball, made in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, October 5, 1856.11 KB (2,178 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...e, Delivered by J. M. Grant, in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, October 26, 1856. We have missionaries who go out to different parts of this Territory, and over the earth, gaining experience and information, but can we get the23 KB (4,390 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ent Brigham Young, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, December 4, 1856.21 KB (4,054 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- I presume that there are from twelve to twenty thousand families in this Territory, and I really know of no reason why every family should not take, read, and To the people in Utah it is almost invaluable, for in it first appear the History of Joseph Smith12 KB (2,249 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...inue to lay up grain for themselves and for this community throughout this Territory, and for fifty or a hundred times as many more, until they have enough to l ...Legion, the same person who has held that position since our settlement in Utah. The polls will be kept open until sundown.21 KB (4,011 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |H=RESULT OF THE DELEGATION TO CONGRESS FOR THE ADMISSION OF UTAH AS A STATE—CONDITION OF SOCIETY IN THE STATES—RETURN OF APOSTATES ...of Discourses 4: RESULT OF THE DELEGATION TO CONGRESS FOR THE ADMISSION OF UTAH AS A STATE—CONDITION OF SOCIETY IN THE STATES—RETURN OF APOSTATES10 KB (1,872 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |H=PRACTICAL RELIGION—SIMPLICITY—TEMPORAL SALVATION—ADVANTAGES OF UTAH AS A SETTLEMENT FOR THE SAINTS—FALSE REPORTS, ETC. ...es 4: PRACTICAL RELIGION—SIMPLICITY—TEMPORAL SALVATION—ADVANTAGES OF UTAH AS A SETTLEMENT FOR THE SAINTS—FALSE REPORTS, ETC.21 KB (3,987 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...../63|Practical Religion—Simplicity—Temporal Salvation—Advantages of Utah as a Settlement for the Saints—False Reports, etc.]] ...s, or holding any other office under the United States' Government in this Territory, have to violate and trample under their feet their oaths to be loyal to th21 KB (3,923 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...e various parts of the Territory where I have visited. Last week I visited Utah and Cedar Valleys, and the brethren were willing to drop their scythes and11 KB (2,123 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...N OF MEN AND DEVILS TO THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM—GOVERNMENTAL BREACH OF THE UTAH MAIL CONTRACT ...N OF MEN AND DEVILS TO THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM—GOVERNMENTAL BREACH OF THE UTAH MAIL CONTRACT23 KB (4,264 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...not a man can begin to tell what I feel for the Latter-day Saints in this Territory, throughout the mountains and the world,—what I feel for their salvation ...us and the world, when an army undertakes to make their appearance in this Territory to chastise me or to destroy my life from the earth. I lay it down that rig17 KB (3,443 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024