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  • Question: Does the film "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre accurately portray the historical events?
    ...m Young (Terence Stamp), the head of the Mormon church and the Governor of Utah at that time; but historians...say it is unclear whether Young was directly
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 10
    #Allen J. Stout, "Allen J. Stout Journal," under June 28, 1844, Utah State Historical Society, 14, online at <nowiki>http://www.math.byu.edu/~sm #Hubert Howe Bancroft, ''History of Utah, 1540-1886'', 505.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 12
    |L1=Response to claim: 256 - Was Brigham considered a "king" over the territory? ...as the death of "Col. Johnston," in the Civil War (of "Johnston's army" in Utah) on April 6 interpreted by Latter-day Saints as a sign of divine judgment?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 14
    ...nse to claim: 325, 589n55 (PB) - Did "countless" plural marriages occur in Utah, Canada, and Mexico after the Manifesto, as the author claims? ...umber of years and borne me children…as a teacher of my religion in Utah territory, I have defended said tenet of said church as being in my belief a revelati
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Absurd claims
    ...crossed into Caldwell County and began threatening Mormons '''in their own territory'''." ..."Mormons" who were driven "from their homes" were not living "in their own territory?"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young ordered MMM
    ...s us that "if any court in the American West (excepting, of course, one of Utah's probate courts) had seen the evidence [the Dimick Huntington diary] conta ...op, John D. Lee'' (St. Louis: Bryan, Brand, 1877; reprint, Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, n.d.), 223. Although I have doubts about this encounte
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  • Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?
    ==Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?== Critics of the Church have long appealed to the "Danites" in Utah as a source of Mormon power, terror, and control. <ref>{{CriticalWork:Abane
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Poisoning myth
    ...migrants deliberately poisoned a spring and an ox carcass near the central Utah town of Fillmore, causing illness and death among local Indians. According ...rn Utah. Jacob Forney, who succeeded Brigham Young as Indian agent for the territory, makes this as an explanation in his report to the government and cites the
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  • Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
    ...of their highly upright and excellent moral character while in the Indian territory…. Emigrating Mormons, to the number of nearly 20,000 are to be found west ===1855 Editorial, “The Mormons in Utah”, New York Times February 2, 1855, page 4===
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 5
    ...im: 67 - The author notes that several new federal officials fled the Utah Territory because they felt threatened ...im: 67 - The author notes that several new federal officials fled the Utah Territory because they felt threatened==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 8
    ...aim: 115 - The author claims that "Indian" massacres that occurred in Utah Territory were actually carried out by "white-faced Indians who used Mormon slang" #Gustive O. Larson, "The Mormon Reformation," ''Utah Historical Society Quarterly'' 26 (January 1958).
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 11
    ...</ref> Is Brigham to be held responsible for every crime committed in the territory? ...s in her book. Her stated objective was to reclaim the "suffering women of Utah." She is the sole source for this "revelation," which has no basis in histo
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 12
    ...oves of Saints leaving California for Utah" and "a matching number leaving Utah of a crisis of conscience spurred by the events of Mountain Meadows" ...f van Vliet relayed news of the situation to Johnston, an invasion of Utah Territory would be expedited."
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  • Other Resources on Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
    ...letter reported recent news that no U.S. troops would be able to reach the territory before winter. “So you see that the Lord has answered our prayers and aga ...mary=It is claimed that Brigham Young's letter telling Mormons in southern Utah to leave the immigrants alone is of dubious providence.
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/3
    ...norable man, and signed his name to it as the Governor of the Territory of Utah, and Willard Richards as Secretary. I told the mayor, in relation to these
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/7
    ...vernment here; and a government has been in existence in this Territory of Utah for five years. ...xican territory; but it was soon after acquired by treaty, and became U.S. territory. Four years and a half a government has been supported here, governmental l
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/12
    ...go where you please, IF YOU CAN. You may go and settle in any part of the Territory that you please; and furthermore, you may go to California if you wish. ...nd infinitely more extensive than the walling in of the whole territory of Utah. His work was given to him sixteen years ago, by the Prophet Joseph Smith,
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/16
    ...he First Judicial District Court of the United States for the Territory of Utah]]
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/17
    ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/18
    ...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.
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/19
    ...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 ti
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/27
    ...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 San
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/29
    ...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 GOSPEL
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/30
    ...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 in
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/33
    ...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 Chu
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/46
    ...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 h
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/8
    ...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 M
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/14
    ...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 able
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/15
    ...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 earth
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/16
    ...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 c
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/17
    ...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.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/18
    ...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 thi
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/22
    ...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 lis
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/27
    ...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 is
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/32
    ...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 H
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/40
    ...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 exc
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/48
    |H=UTAH DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON—U.S. GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: UTAH DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON—U.S. GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/49
    |<=[[../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 is
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/54
    ..., 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 whi
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/55
    ...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 us
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/1
    ...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 thes
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/3
    ...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 t
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/8
    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?
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/9
    ...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 wha
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/26
    |H=THE NECESSITY OF A LIVING PRIESTHOOD—THE UTAH LEGISLATURE |T=Journal of Discourses 3: THE NECESSITY OF A LIVING PRIESTHOOD—THE UTAH LEGISLATURE
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/27
    |<=[[../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.
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/33
    ...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, binding
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/37
    ...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 the
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/44
    ...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 inde
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/1
    ...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 thi
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/5
    ...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 congrega
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/6
    ...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 build
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/9
    ...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.
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/10
    ...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 UTAH
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/11
    ...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 the
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844
    ...|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.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy
    who led his faction to the [[Utah Territory]] and incorporated [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], who
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/20
    ...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 also
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/26
    ...marks by H. C. Kimball, made in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, October 5, 1856.
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/27
    ...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 the
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/28
    ...ent Brigham Young, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, December 4, 1856.
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/53
    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 Smith
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/55
    ...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.
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/61
    |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 APOSTATES
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/63
    |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.
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/64
    ...../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 th
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/6
    ...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 and
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/17
    ...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 CONTRACT
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/21
    ...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 rig
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/22
    ...ons of the forenoon will be of lasting benefit to me. In every part of the Territory, and in every other place where I have been, I have taken a good deal of pl ...he greatest coward in the country, especially in the southern part of this Territory; and yet I was not afraid of hell, when all its miseries were painted befor
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/23
    ...ng, if I am not very patriotic. No men need call upon me to do anything in Utah for the United States, unless they pay me the money down. I won't trust the ...they seem to do very well. Are you going there?" "Yes, sir, I am going to Utah." "Did you live there?" "Yes." "I think it is not prudent, the policy upon
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/24
    ...Gentlemen, you have dictated, and I will order a soldiery and officials to Utah." It is said in the Bible, that whosoever ye yield yourselves to obey, his ...to the midst of the savages of the plains. And here am I, yet, Governor of Utah.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/26
    ...e great I AM. I suppose there are seeming irregularities in the affairs of Utah that Uncle Sam does not like, and he puts forth his hand in the shape of an ...opportune, when the nation shall begin to dictate to an organized State or Territory in matters of their own internal policy and municipal regulations. When we
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/27
    ...them, I know, for some time past, have been concocting plans to divide up Utah among the several Territories around; and I believe a bill, having this obj ...he President of the United States to send out Governors and Judges to this Territory, I would like to see it.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/28
    ...office—men from our own midst, out of whom to appoint officers for this Territory. We sent that number for the President of the United States to make a selec ...he is the man of our own choice; he is our Governor, in the capacity of a Territory, and also as Saints of the Most High.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/29
    ...p my valise and go throughout the Territory crying, Is there a man in this Territory for God? ...hearts are like an aspen leaf because of this little handful of people in Utah. Pity them; for they know not whom they are fighting against; they know not
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/30
    ...the Lord rain down the honey-dew upon the trees and upon the vegetation in Utah? Yes. I can go down on Cottonwood here, and show it to you, lots of it. If ...you are told, and Brigham Young never will leave the Governorship of this Territory from this time henceforth and for ever—no, never; and there shall no wick
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/34
    ...hington, and Colonel Johnson ordered to assume the command of the army for Utah. ...rst, and the Lord permits them to come upon us, I will desolate this whole Territory before I will again submit to the hellish corruption and bondage the wicked
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/36
    |>=[[../37|The United States Administration and Utah Army]] ...nty of Iron, the place of the first settlement in the southern part of the Territory. When I arrived there, it appeared that some rumour or spirit of surprise h
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/37
    |H=THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION AND UTAH ARMY |T=Journal of Discourses 5: THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION AND UTAH ARMY
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/38
    |<=[[../37|The United States Administration and Utah Army]] ...their lies, the President has ordered out troops to aid in officering this Territory: and if those officers are like many who have previously been sent here, (a
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/44
    ...ong is it since brother Brigham proffered to release all the women in this Territory who wished to be released? At the last October Conference. That woman is to Mr. Buchanan and his coadjutors are striving to oppress Utah and deprive us of our constitutional rights: They have taken the Eastern ma
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/57
    If the Government of the United States have sent soldiers to this Territory, I do not know it; for I have had no official notice of such a circumstance ...re sent by the Government of the United States, yet I, as Governor of this Territory, have no business to know any such thing until I am notified by proper auth
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/59
    ...army or anywhere else; but if you come again with bitter feelings to this Territory, we shall meet you as we would a mob.
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    ...tell you the Devil and his hosts will growl. But here, in the Territory of Utah, it is different: we can stand forth and boldly declare our views and relig ...hank my heavenly Father for it. There is now a good feeling throughout the Territory where I have been; there is union among the people; but still there are som
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    "If the army now invading Utah should be overthrown," says an unbeliever, "are you not fearful that a much ...satisfy them. To the rule of, no other will they willingly submit. Govern Utah who will, Brigham Young or his duly chosen successor can alone govern the "
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    ...s. Whatever explanation may be given to the present movement of troops for Utah is immaterial. It will stick to the present Administration, in its true lig
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    I am satisfied that that portion of the citizens of Utah who first sought out this mountain retreat have seen and experienced enough ...us, and a large portion of this people—those who have immigrated to this Territory within a few years past, have not had the benefit of the experience which t
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    ...he truths of the Gospel. I have also taken up the laws of the Territory of Utah and the laws and Constitution of the United States, pointing out to them th ...o believe in slavery; for they permit men to bring their slaves into their Territory."
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    ...reason why. There {{page break|213|top}} is not a man in the Territory of Utah that can compete with them in this thing. They have done it all the day lon
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    Is it the people in the Territory of Utah that our enemies are and have been contending with? No: they are contending
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    Bless the Governor of this Territory, with the Legislators, Judges, Marshals, Sheriffs, and all in authority amo May the Delegate from Utah, now in the Congress of the nation, be clothed upon with the Spirit and the
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    I wish to say to this congregation and to the inhabitants of the Territory of Utah, in connection with the travellers that are passing through, If the whites If the inhabitants of this Territory, my brethren, had never condescended to reduce themselves to the practices
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    ...dition; for it is well known that this practice is general throughout this Territory, with but a few exceptions. A great many families, not only in Salt Lake Ci ...d of a dispensation was that? It has been proved before the people in this Territory, time after time, that the dispensation in which the Patriarchs lived was t
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    ...e General Congress. Look, for instance, at the statutes in relation to the Territory of Florida, and see the number of laws enacted by that people, and repealed ...ich is produced in the minds of the whole American people. Every organized Territory, wherever it exists, has the same right that the early revolutionary father
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    ...devotion to her best interests to quiver in the heart of every citizen of Utah, with a zeal and a pride for the welfare of our country that does honour to ...despatch across the continent, passing through the head and centre of Utah Territory; particularly as the transportation of soldiers and the munitions of war ar
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    ...e break|52|top}} repudiated the acts of its own officers, and saddled upon Utah the entire responsibility. This also displeased the "Mormons;" and we say t
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    ...ern whore to sit on the bench with him, and thus insult the people of this Territory, and left his poor wife desolate and forsaken in Oquaka, Illinois. This is ...en they go back, it will be said, "Well gentlemen, why did you not go into Utah?" "Because Brigham Young pointed his finger and said, Stop, and we stopped.
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    ...he result will be like what we have seen within the last two years in this Territory in regard to the endeavours of our enemies to break us up and scatter us to ...Black says, in his explanation in reference to the officials sent to this Territory, that the Government sought the whole country over and sent the best men th
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    ...he Lord Jesus Christ of possessing great influence over the people of this Territory; and I would to God that I had sufficient influence to make every man and w "Mormonism" is said to be different in Utah from what it is in other countries. It should be very different. Let me exp
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    ...Gentiles called the United States, we shall find in almost every State and Territory the Church of the Saints of the Lamb of God, that the world call "Mormons," ...n the State of Illinois bear witness. We will not refer to persecutions in Utah, for here we have had but little, compared with scenes we have past through
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    ...ark last night, that it stormed yesterday, that the river Jordan runs from Utah Lake and empties into Great Salt Lake, that there are mountains on our righ ...caused the death of brother Jedediah M. Grant. I wished to go through the Territory and ask whether there was one left for God, or whether all had gone astray.
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    ...ating from one part of the Union to another, settling in whatever State or Territory they saw fit. The people preserved {{page break|215|top}} in their own hand ...rticulars during the twelve years of our sojourn here. Look abroad in this Territory: behold the flourishing settlements, forming almost a continuous chain for
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    ...Governor of the Territory of Utah; for he says he carries the "keys of the Territory in his breeches pocket" anyway. ...Government sent out an army to give protection to the oppressed people of Utah, and escort back all who want to go back to the East or to California, and
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    ...e various kingdoms and empires of the old world. Doubtless the citizens of Utah are sufficiently acquainted with the history of those nations to know that ...r to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory or other property belonging to {{page break|113|top}} the United States," g
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    ...ces in America, in England, and all over the world,—"Great oppression in Utah!" because we exhort the people not to be such fools as to run after the gol I will now inform the Latter-day Saints in this Territory that I wish them to fit out our Missionaries, who are going into the world
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    To send the army to Utah was the measure and policy of a Democratic administration of the United Sta ...tude that wanted to speculate out of the army—out of the citizens of the territory, traders, freighters, merchants, and sutlers, doctors, lawyers, and devils?
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    ...rit of the Lord may direct in those lands. Whether I shall return again to Utah, it matters not, if it so be that I keep the commandments of God and do his ...I will add that there is one thing that I am confident of—viz., that in Utah there is not much danger of the Latter-day Saints becoming very rich. If th
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    ...a right to secede, so has a Territory, and so has a county from a State or Territory, and a town from a county, and a family from a neighbourhood, and you will ...mes is not so prompt now as he was three years ago, when he sent troops to Utah. South Carolina comes out and boldly declares her secession from the compac
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    ...have tasted of the variety of temperature with which the Lord has blessed Utah, from the frigid to the torrid zone. ...relation to the limited extent of arable land in the southern part of our Territory. The field of operation for the production of a supply of cotton is within
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    ...ficulties With Which the Church Has Had to Contend in its Establishment in Utah]] ...than ever the sufferings of the Saints have been in crossing the Plains to Utah. These are facts that are present with us. The bones of those who drove the
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    ...FICULTIES WITH WHICH THE CHURCH HAS HAD TO CONTEND IN ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN UTAH ...FICULTIES WITH WHICH THE CHURCH HAS HAD TO CONTEND IN ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN UTAH
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    |>=[[../26| Facilities in Utah for the Comfort and Prosperity of the Saints]] ...ent who was there, except Judge Phelps. There are also a few others in the Territory who received theirs. A few will remain and receive their inheritance. Will
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    ...re is an end of them and of their depredations upon the honest citizens of Utah. The best people in the world are in this Territory, and yet there is not another community, according to our numbers, so infes
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    ...we labour for it, the finest flax, hemp, and wool, can be produced in this Territory. It is our duty to strive to raise every thing we need for our own consumpt ...essary to more fully develop the resources of the mountains and valleys of Utah. I mean that we could then use our means to bring the machinery here that w
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    ...oad is now very good. This county, Davis, Tooele, and the northern part of Utah counties can forward teams in a day or two, and if the road again becomes b ...e sent some two hundred teams to the Frontiers to bring the Saints to this Territory. We wish to send three hundred this year, and they are as few as will answe
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    ...forth, and has caught the attention of thousands that are now here in this Territory, and caused them to come to Zion for the purpose of worshipping God under t ...called on to strengthen the Stakes of Zion on the southern borders of our Territory. The Twelve being called to act a part in organizing this Mission, has caus
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    ..., with everything to make them wealthy and comfortable there in Deseret or Utah, a great many would turn away from him to worship their idols.
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    I wish to inform all the inhabitants of the Territory of Utah, Jew and Gentile, bond and free, male and female, black and white, red, cop ...rritory that knows whether there is a particle of pure cabbage seed in the Territory, or in his Ward? whether there is a bushel of pure buck-wheat, or Californi
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    ...stead of accomplishing what they desired, have given the Latter-day Saints territory and comparative independence. All the evil they have sought to bring upon u ...he kanyons after wood, or to harness our teams and go on a visit to Davis, Utah, or any other county. We have also a right to assemble, as we did a short t
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    ...ly for the benefit of those that are laboring in the different portions of Utah, or, as I was about to say, in different portions of Deseret. You are aware that I hail from the northern part of our flourishing Territory, (Cache Valley,) and I am really proud of the county and of the people who
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    ...o get along any better with their savage neighbors than the inhabitants of Utah have done. Talk about making treaties with the Indians! Has there been any ...ple? I will answer. There has never been a time or circumstance since this Territory was organized, but what the civil law has reigned triumphantly in the heart
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    ...l and in winter to keep us comfortably warm." I argue that a dress made of Utah yarn, worn over a reasonable quantity of underclothing, would be more light ...otton, from Utah flax, from Utah silk, from Utah wool, and wear cloth from Utah looms, or go without? And you, my sisters, my wives and my daughters, come
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    ...ood schools be established throughout all the settlements of the Saints in Utah. Let good teachers who are Latter-day Saints in principle and at heart, be ...es can be grown to perfection and in abundance in the southern portions of Utah, while cereal crops, flax, wool, silk, and a great variety of {{page break|
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    ...DING TEMPLES—GOLD, ITS PRODUCTION AND USES—GOVERNMENTAL POLICY TOWARDS UTAH—PROVIDING BREAD FOR THE POOR ...DING TEMPLES—GOLD, ITS PRODUCTION AND USES—GOVERNMENTAL POLICY TOWARDS UTAH—PROVIDING BREAD FOR THE POOR
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    ...ttlements, had crops destroyed by the same cause, yet no wail went up from Utah, asking the nation for help. We have been so independent, and so disposed t ...y scheme that has for its object the obtaining of a State organization for Utah. Such persons look upon this as so great a blessing and so great a boon, th
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    ...lorado; visit those in Arizona and New Mexico; go north and travel through Utah and visit Idaho—go where you will, wherever they have settled, you will f ...ulterers and adulteresses. Yes, in this land of ours, in this Territory of Utah you could go to the polls and cast your vote if you lived outside of wedloc
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    ...people that are Latter-day Saints in this Territory and those that are in Utah, and that are in Colorado and Arizona, and those that are scattered abroad
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    ...no officers, for the reasons that, as a rule, every reputable man in Utah Territory, when he attains the age of majority, holds the office of an {{page break|1 ...is equal to, if not much better than the position of affairs in any other Territory and in many of the States. Has that been because there has been a union of
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    ...Territory. Over fifty thousand Sabbath school children in the Territory of Utah—nearly one-third of the entire population, as shown in our statistics at ...iage relation. Mr. Dickson took this view, that Murray was right; that the Utah Commissioners were right; that this was the sense of the country; that this
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    ...ay Saints; and yet there is not a man or woman within the confines of this Territory or elsewhere, who is a believer in the Gospel, but who is more than willing ...Scriptures, and I can further say that the missionaries who have gone from Utah—the Elders who have labored in the midst of the nations of the earth—ha
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    ...es are better exemplified in the lives of the people than they are in Utah Territory. What woman cries aloud in our streets because of being defiled? What woman
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    ...s, assuming that we are wrong, assuming that there is something up here in Utah that is not right, that is not consistent with Christianity, or the enlight ...member, while five-sixths of the population of this {{page break|275|top}} territory are "Mormons," and one-sixth non-"Mormons," eighty-five per cent. of the cr
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    ...hich I looked when I came into the settlements of the Latter-day Saints in Utah." These very falsehoods, therefore, have the effect of impressing—where m ...Because of this spirit of persecution to-day, Utah is a Territory, a grand Territory, and we as a people are living in these valleys of the mountains {{page bre
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    ...ing for you." Another President ordered, on misrepresentations, an army to Utah. How will the Almighty deal with these? They will be judged as you and I wi ...break|313|top}} Lake City, nor are any of you in prison though you are in Utah.
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    ...e Mr. Cleveland to administer, or cause to be administered all the laws in Utah impartially, he would be manifesting a degree of hardihood, a degree of mor ...the Judge of the Supreme Court of {{page break|332|top}} the Territory of Utah is a Christian, how will he feel when he comes into the presence of Father
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    ...in this Territory. We all know that: but it is good to have wise men visit Utah from abroad and see the excellence and strength of its government.
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    ...blossoms into life. And there are those even in {{page break|41|top}} this Territory who, when they get among the Saints believe that all the purposes of their ...awhile he takes the elder to one side and says, "How long have you been in Utah?" And the answer is ten, fifteen, or twenty years, as the case may be. "You
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    ...ll right; we have nothing to do with them? Have you? Has the city? Has the Territory? No. ...re we become an integral part of the government of the United States, as a Territory. Very well. Here is another thing we are talking about. Is that the governm
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    Had it not been for the Book of Mormon this territory would not be occupied by a people called the Latter-day Saints. That lies a ...e come from the nations of the earth! They have come from the mountains of Utah, from Arizona, from Idaho, and from the mountainous territories of the Nort
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    ...a. These people have had rather an unpleasant and chequered history in the Territory of New Mexico and the State of Colorado. They have been looked upon to a ce ...frog over their own wrongdoings, and in place of looking to the affairs of Utah they had better attend to their own." These things look strange to the youn
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    ...ed States, and he comes with proper credentials to act as governor of this Territory; he comes in the name or by the authority of the United States; and the gov ...to prepare teachers to teach others. Now, the Lord has a normal school in Utah. He is preparing us in a variety of ways sometimes we have not enough snow
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    ...holy priesthood, acting in behalf of the Church in different parts of this Territory, and also in different parts of the earth; and we have men, say, acting as ...I am reminded of a circumstance which occurred in the early settlement of Utah, at a time when we were all in very destitute circumstances, without the sh
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    ...proportionately, there will be a continual necessity for spreading forth, Utah will become too small for her spreading population, and in all the adjacent ...ns among the Latter-day Saints, Have we not seen in our experience in this Territory, some 300 to 400 men called at once to go forth and preach the Gospel, to l
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    ...bly, here, who have lived long in the outside world, previous to coming to Utah, and who are not entirely unacquainted with the usages of society there. Yo ...Washington, by the President, by the Congressmen: "Are things any worse in Utah than in Washington: than they are in New York? or in any State of the Union
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    ...iness besides digging gold and silver and fighting the Saints, and I trust Utah will be left as unnoticed as it is in the President's message. I thank them ...it has resulted in replenishing the wardrobes of the people throughout the Territory, and placed in their possession many thousands of dollars. If you have a fe
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    ...ould have gathered themselves together as we find ourselves to-day in this Territory, a distinct, religious brotherhood—if you please, a distinct nationality, ...heir souls, in regard to time and to eternity. There are thousands in this Territory to-day that are now well off that never would have owned one foot of land i
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    ...to say; but I am prepared to say that, as a population, as a people, as a Territory, we have always been loyal to the institutions of our government, and I am ...to those political gamblers who would stake the lives of the citizens of a Territory in their damning games. Back with your hosts, touch not God's anointed, and
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    |S= Remarks by President Brigham Young to the people, on his visit to Utah, Juab, and Sanpete Counties, in June and July, 1865. REPORTED BY G. D. WATT ...to our merchants that are here, and to those who are scattered through the Territory. I am speaking of our Mormon merchants. When a gentile merchant comes here
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    ...t, which the people can freight themselves, and thus let every ward in the Territory supply themselves from abroad with what they really require; by so doing, t ...full benefit of our labors ourselves. Why not appoint in every ward of the Territory a good business man, who is filled with integrity and truth, to make contra
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    ...hats as beautiful to look upon as any that have ever been imported to this Territory. I am addressing myself to the ladies of the kingdom of God, to those who k ...and hundreds of the poor Saints from the old countries to these valleys of Utah. Is it wise in us, and pleasing to the Lord, for us to place the means he h
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    We have come to this Conference from all parts of the Territory to be reminded of our duties, and to obtain strength in the worship of the ...ut of the unfaithful, the Lord has got a chosen people in these valleys of Utah, and He desires them to become {{page break|146|top}} self-sustaining, and
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    ...say that there is plenty of good wheat in the granary, or in the Egypt of Utah; and I think the loss this year, through early frosts, will aid very much i ...y we not all become Abrahams? It seems to me that the Almighty can furnish territory enough, room enough: for He is not limited: and this world and all other wo
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    ...er or gauger in the Custom House, they would never come to Utah. Coming to Utah was the last thing and the last place for a man perfectly desperate for the ...ar in succession there, drawing their salaries to report how things are in Utah. All these things we have had to encounter; but our industry, our economy a
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    ...ount of reading. If any of you, or if any of the people in any part of the Territory have ever sent letters to me to read, previous to sending them to their fri
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    ...nd men to Wash-{{page break|279|top}}ington to howl for an army to come to Utah. ...to the Government, and I am of the opinion they are the only ones in this Territory who promptly do so.
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    ...sheep. We need from one hundred to two hundred of the same capacity in the Territory. ...world, "what a terrible people these Mormons are! No man's life is safe in Utah!" Put this people by themselves and there would not be a law suit among the
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    ...time I recollect that Mr. Reed, the father of the present Secretary of our Territory, then something of a lawyer, defended him from court to court, night after ...t have more than one-quarter or one-third the people there that we have in Utah, and I rather think the majority would rule in this case.
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    ...s, after leaving here, informed the Administration that the inhabitants of Utah were mostly "Mormons," and were a very peculiar people. He thought he had m ...forced into this position, we cannot help ourselves, and hence we become a Territory, and have our Governor, Judges, Marshal, and Secretary of State sent us by
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    ...ny business that may have to be presented from the different parts of this Territory, and from all parts of the earth; and we try to build up the people in thei ...s they came, and did nothing. We have had difficulties in the south of our Territory with Indians; we have to-day. What is the best course for us to take in reg
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    ...The plains were darkened with wagons, six thousand having been started for Utah by one company, besides several thousands by the Government. There were als ...overnment is said to have expended forty millions in bringing that army to Utah and in establishing Camp Floyd; yet most of it went into the hands of specu
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    |<=[[../3|Prosperity of Southern Utah]] ...abroad under different circumstances from what we went. We had no Zion, no Utah, no body of Saints to give us any assistance. We were commanded to go witho
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    ...er in the mountains?" My invariable reply is that we have enough to make a Territory. I wish the Latter-day Saints to increase and multiply. It has been said to ...tles? Will you live so that the report may go out from this time from Utah Territory that the Latter-day Saints are perfect examples for the nations of the eart
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    |<=[[../13|Trip to Southern Utah—The Works and Faith of the Saints]] ...at it grows as fast in Wm. H. Hooper as in any man I know. He came to this Territory, as he has said, seventeen years ago next month; he came as clerk to Ben. H
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    ...le as those who dwell in Salt Lake City or in any other settlement in Utah Territory. I think much of Provo; it is a very favored locality. We have established ...t little use for probate courts, district courts, or supreme courts in our Territory; their existence here would only be in a name and form, for the people woul
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    ...ant to make plans and calculations, and every man and woman throughout the Territory should feel that it is a part of their duty to contribute his or her share ...gs, if the proper attention is paid to them. Our beautiful lakes—such as Utah Lake and Bear Lake,—our rivers, and even our springs can, with a very lit
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    ...xpended in rearing this city and in extending civilization throughout this Territory—I say it is for us to decide to-day and during this Conference whether or ...} bow as servilely as himself to Brigham, shall have leave to stay in this Territory, ignores the fact that the Salt Lake basin is a rich oasis in which nature
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    ...ng Territories. If it had not been for the Latter-day Saints settling this Territory, when would Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Arizona or Nevada have been settled? Ever since the settlement of this Territory I have felt how much better it would be if this people would unite together
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    ...ed by the wicked. If we do this prosperity will be upon the inhabitants of Utah; prosperity will be upon the towns and cities erected by this people, the h ...e strengthened in regard to this matter, for what do I behold here in this Territory? I behold a people that have been willing to sacrifice all that they have f
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    ...ons of the Gospel of Christ the spectacle which is to be witnessed in this Territory of a people congregating together from so many nations and united in their ..., to-day, through all the nations of the earth, that which is witnessed in Utah—one form of worship and one faith, and all the people, everywhere worship
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    ...bers of his church, many of whom, and their children, are citizens of this Territory to-day. After this they continued their journey westward to Independence, i ...any of the Saints together, and has materially increased the population of Utah.
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    ...o six. I want to say this for the consolation of those sisters who live in Utah and bear children. ...efit of her health I suppose. These great statements about the children of Utah have come through the great wisdom and experience of Anna Dickinson. How mu
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    ...y Saints—is revealing the remedy. You travel throughout the Territory of Utah, from Bear Lake in the north to St. George in the south, and what do you se
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    ...y this large congregation now before me, but as I travel to and fro in the Territory I see four hundred miles of desert reclaimed, and over one hundred towns, c ...e United States formed a treaty with Mexico, and this became United States territory.
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    ...n their secret amours and supporting mistresses, yet against the people of Utah, where such things are totally unknown, there is an eternal and rabid outcr In speaking of Utah and this peculiar practice amongst its people, it is frequently said, "Look
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    ...le that have lived on the face of the earth; and they are the same in this Territory as they have been elsewhere. For instance, let a man pass through this coun ...done in preaching and in missionary labor by the Elders of Israel than in Utah amongst the Latter-day Saints.
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    ...ut the Lord backed up our testimony, and tens of thousands throughout this Territory and in the world, who received it, can bear record that they have received
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    ...in our case. Men say, in speaking of us: "Do you Latter-day Saints, who in Utah and the adjoining Territories number probably one hundred and fifty or two ...tnessed before me to-day, and that can be seen throughout the Territory of Utah. Why is this? Because, as I have said, they have labored without the concur
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    ...hould not have seen this assembly here to-day in this Tabernacle, nor this Territory filled with cities and towns. But being the work of God, he asks no odds of ...gation, while we have 600 miles of towns, villages and settlements in this Territory. It is progress all the time. Why? Because it is the work of God. No one ca
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    ...t this spirit will be received and cherished by the Saints throughout Utah Territory, and throughout the world. Judging by my own feelings on this subject and b
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    ...rected the minds of the world to Utah is the discoveries of mineral in our Territory. This has undoubtedly added greatly to the interest which has ever been fel ...of one heart and mind. And has it not been so in our day? We find in this Territory men representing nearly every country. They have come here by thousands fro
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    ...ousands of their books distributed among the Sunday schools throughout our Territory. Some Latter-day Saints think they are not exactly what they ought to be; b ...world, our youth know better than the whole sectarian world. In coming to Utah to teach the "Mormons" the way of life, the Christians are but carrying coa
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    ...rs for this city appointed by the legislative power and enactments of this Territory; and we have somebody or other here, who say, "You have no law here only wh ...my of King James came here in 1857? Said he, "Send an army of young men to Utah to decoy and destroy the young women there, and that will break up 'Mormoni
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    ...s not the origin of this great gathering which you see in the Territory of Utah. If you do not believe what I say, let any other society, I don't care how ...in their own country; it is because thousands of this people, now in this Territory, have been healed themselves. It is because God has shed forth his power by
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    ...er as we are found, in these valleys of the mountains, in the Territory of Utah. We have come here, ostensibly and in reality, not to do our own will, but
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    ...these valleys of the mountains, throughout the length and breadth of this Territory. Your ideas were based on the revelations of God, the message that you hear ...ughout the Territory are out of debt; our counties are out of debt and our Territory is out of debt. Where can you point to the same thing anywhere else? Well,
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    ...the Territory, that there are about thirty thousand school children in the Territory, between the ages of four and sixteen. ...s Territories may be an enlightened one, and it may not; having lived in a Territory most of my life I may not be considered a proper judge. Suffice it to say,
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/6
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    ...n to be opened, and now silver mines are being worked in many parts of the Territory. A few years ago General Connor and others, who dwelt here, with soldiers u ...d be far wiser for us, to sell our wool to those who own factories in this Territory, and to sustain ourselves by sustaining home manufactures.
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    Many of you know that in 1853 we had difficulty with the Indians in Southern Utah. At that time I was military commander of the Southern Department. Previous ...entials did not think proper to allow the representatives of the people of Utah a seat in that convention, consequently we retired, believing, fully, that
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    ...case have forced us into the very position that we now occupy—namely, a Territory in the United States of America; and as we are here, we like other people, ...to fence it, and to have our neighborhood, city and county regulations in Utah among the Saints, just as the people do elsewhere, for, as I have already s
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    ...se mountains; and had it not been for that event, it is probable that Utah Territory would still have been a desert, a barren, solitary, uninhabited district of I would call upon this congregation, and upon the inhabitants of Utah Territory, I mean that portion called Latter-day Saints, and ask of them, Have you ex
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    ...I suppose that among {{page break|203|top}} the thousands who live in this Territory, who have been gathered from the various States of this country, and from t ...or in the same places of worship throughout the length and breadth of this Territory, I see something which to my mind is far, far more surprising than anything
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    ...NCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL THE SAME AS OF OLD—EARLY EXPERIENCE OF SETTLERS OF UTAH—RELIGIOUS LIBERTY—MODERN SO-CALLED CIVILIZATION—BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD ...NCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL THE SAME AS OF OLD—EARLY EXPERIENCE OF SETTLERS OF UTAH—RELIGIOUS LIBERTY—MODERN SO-CALLED CIVILIZATION—BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD
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    ...nciples of the Gospel the Same as of Old—Early Experience of Settlers of Utah—Religious Liberty—Modern So-called Civilization—Baptism for the Dead] ...ak the sentiments of every man and woman who belongs to the Church in this Territory. We know that we have received the truth, that it. will be triumphant in th
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    ...not, to see whether there are any persons throughout all the Territory of Utah who are complying with them. In one of these revelations, given in March, 1 ...r prepared: but, when I see the backwardness of many of the people of this Territory calling themselves Latter-day Saints, about paying their tithing, refusing
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    ...ed "United States Supreme Court for the Territory {{page break|12|top}} of Utah;" but the United States Supreme Court that sits at Washington—the seat of
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    ...t the sympathies of the children, in their respective Wards throughout the Territory, to save the pager rags; we want mothers to do this, and also to show their ...rd to our schools. There are many of our people who believe that the whole Territory ought to be taxed for our schools. When we have means, that come in the pro
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    ...ad of making them at home. How long will it be before we are poor, and our Territory drained of all the money we can raise, if we continue this? We should not s ...en from Jackson, Caldwell and Clay Counties, and from Kirtland and Nauvoo, Utah to-day, would have been a barren desert, there would have been no railroad
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    |H=EXTENSION OF THE UTAH NORTHERN RAILROAD—THE BUILDING OF THE MEETING HOUSE AND OTHER PUBLIC IMPR |T=Journal of Discourses 16: EXTENSION OF THE UTAH NORTHERN RAILROAD—THE BUILDING OF THE MEETING HOUSE AND OTHER PUBLIC IMPR
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    ...isit the Saints in some of the settlements in the northern valleys of this Territory and the southern portions of Idaho. Considering the short time since the se ...in greater altitudes, until now it is successful in many localities in the Territory where it was formerly impossible.
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    ...Conference shall come to a close, all the Branches of Zion throughout the Territory will be duly represented here.{{page break|229|top}} ...gs—was the one-man power which exists, and is tolerated and sustained in Utah.
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    ...nt for educational purposes. None of this has ever been made available for Utah; we have had to carry everything by our own individual effort. Now that the ...e people of Utah have done more for education than the people of any other Territory.
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    |S=ON THE OCCASION OF DEDICATING THE TEMPLE SITE AT LOGAN, CACHE COUNTY, UTAH, ON FRIDAY, AT 12 O'CLOCK, MAY 18, 1877. (Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs) ...oung, to say to thy people, "Build to the Lord a house in this part of the Territory." Bless him, O Lord, with long life; bless him with exceedingly great healt
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    |H=ITEMS OF HISTORY—THE PIONEER—TALKING TO THE CHILDREN—PEACE IN UTAH—GOD A PERSONAGE OF TABERNACLE—THE FOOLISH FASHIONS ...es 19: ITEMS OF HISTORY—THE PIONEER—TALKING TO THE CHILDREN—PEACE IN UTAH—GOD A PERSONAGE OF TABERNACLE—THE FOOLISH FASHIONS
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    ...COURSE BY ELDER ERASTUS SNOW, DELIVERED AT THE QUARTERLY CONFERENCE OF THE UTAH STAKE OF ZION, IN THE PROVO MEETING HOUSE, SATURDAY, OCT. 13, 1877. (From t ...n able to attend. We have had occasional Conferences in some places in the Territory, and in various places abroad. It is time now that Stakes of Zion are organ
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    ...r wealth. What is wealth? Does it consist of gold and silver? No. Let this Territory be filled with gold, and war prevail outside and all intercourse be cut off ...I may be mistaken, but I am under the impression that every factory in the Territory, except yours, before the last wool was brought into market, had to stop ru
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    ...loom over the {{page break|238|top}} feelings of the Saints throughout the Territory, and made us all feel sorry. His demise, with that of others, however, is a ...re are not less than five hundred men employed on these buildings, in this Territory. It looks odd and simple, the world does not know what it means; but we kno
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    ...t good to see the settlements extending, even to the remote corners of the Territory. Besides, this class of the Latter-day Saints, who are branching out and de
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    ...orrectly assigned for the refusal, on the part of the nation, of admitting Utah as a State. In spite of all we can say and do, there seems to be a determin ...ially when it is understood that not an officer within the confines of our Territory can hold an office of Federal appointment, if it {{page break|5|top}} be kn
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    ...ve our rights in common with other people, are those who have visited this Territory and have seen us in our homes, and have had opportunities of witnessing the ...m in his sight that we should have our political condition changed and our Territory become a State, it will be effected. And it will come, too, as easily as ot
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    ...ISCOURSE BY ELDER ORSON HYDE, DELIVERED AT MOUNT PLEASANT, SANPETE COUNTY, UTAH, ON SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1878, SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE LAST DELIVERED ...trust for other purposes, and that too, before the time? If the, people of Utah will listen to wise counsels, there will be no famine here arising from the
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    ...there are no less than 500 men engaged to-day in building Temples in this Territory. Some people would consider this quite a tax upon them, and, I may say, we ...made for us sweet music; and I would say that our choir is a credit to our Territory and to our people. And furthermore they are meeting together for the purpos
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    ...as a people occupying this section of country called the the Territory of Utah. We are fruits, we are results of the ministry of reconciliation brought fo
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    ...ave gathered themselves together, as we are here and as they are over this Territory, according to the impulses originating from the Spirit of God, which has op ...den City would let him have the "Union Square" for the purpose of making a Utah Central Railroad Passenger Depot, saying that if he could obtain it for thi
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    ...day, whether an old lady or a young lady, in traveling from one end of our Territory to the other. Can this be said of us to-day? Certainly not; but it was the ...myself, that whenever I want to accomplish anything in connection with our Territory, I always find men who have been here and who have seen for themselves and
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    ...he banks of the Mississippi, though not publicly proclaimed until 1852, in Utah. But the sound of this sacred scriptural doctrine, when it came to be made ...twin. This soon furnished occasion for a recall of the remaining troops in Utah to the other field of conflict.
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    ...that ought to be occupied; for the Latter-day Saints cannot be confined to Utah. Everything indicates the fulfilment of the declaration of the ancient prop
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    ...g officers have been killed, and not in a single instance, in any State or Territory where we have lived, has the law been magnified in the protection of the La ...} upon the benefits of united action, from the earliest settlement of this Territory to the present time, the presiding Elders of the Church have, every Confere
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    ...the Saints—Mormon Battalion—Hardships Experienced in the Settlement of Utah—Plurality of Wives]] ...n all the settlements of the Saints. The mails now run to all parts of the Territory, and though we can not boast a great deal about the punctuality of some of
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    ...THE SAINTS—MORMON BATTALION—HARDSHIPS EXPERIENCED IN THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH—PLURALITY OF WIVES ...THE SAINTS—MORMON BATTALION—HARDSHIPS EXPERIENCED IN THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH—PLURALITY OF WIVES
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    |H=GOD HAS CREATED US TO BE HAPPY—EXPERIENCE AS DELEGATE FROM UTAH IN CONGRESS—THERE IS NOTHING LIKE COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT ...iscourses 17: GOD HAS CREATED US TO BE HAPPY—EXPERIENCE AS DELEGATE FROM UTAH IN CONGRESS—THERE IS NOTHING LIKE COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
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    ...we wish to have the co-operation of the Saints, generally, throughout the Territory, in helping on this work. Our publications should be in every family of the ...for I presume that the women compose a majority of the legal voters of the Territory, hence, under these circumstances, our natural gallantry and the national c
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    ...ey pray for everybody—for President Grant, Judge McKean, the Governor of Utah, and every man holding official positions here, as well as for Brigham Youn ...nd that which strangers now behold in this Tabernacle, and throughout this Territory is in fulfillment of that volume of revelation which you can read in the pr
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    ...thren will soon scatter through the different wards and settlements of the Territory, and to other parts of the world, we wish them to carry forth just and wise ...ettlement between my place in Parowan, Iron County, and the settlements in Utah County. The Sunday was very fine; we had attended meeting and, having been
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    ...n who have sought their destruction, and yet the population of this entire Territory does not number as much as a second class city in the United States. I rema ...he least degree, that the efforts of the past three or four years, in this Territory, to destroy this work and to deprive the leaders of this people of their li
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    ...fore, with this dispensation that we see the people gathering here in this Territory and extending their settlements east and west, north and south. But we are ...ited testimony of some fifty or a hundred thousand people dwelling in this Territory, that God did truly and in reality confirm this promise unto his servants,
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    ...ing beyond measure, that the people throughout all the settlements of Utah Territory have been able to build school houses and to educate their children, but th
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    ...disposition manifested to deal justly and fairly with us who live in this Territory. Whether this feeling was the result of last Fall's elections or not I will ...ich have been introduced into Congress, intended to operate exclusively in Utah.
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    ...ING—THE HAND OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE OVER THE SAINTS—PLEASED WITH BEING A TERRITORY—MAINTAIN THE RIGHT—BE TRUE TO PRINCIPLE ...ING—THE HAND OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE OVER THE SAINTS—PLEASED WITH BEING A TERRITORY—MAINTAIN THE RIGHT—BE TRUE TO PRINCIPLE
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    ...ed feet above the level of the ocean, scattered over four hundred miles of Territory, north and south, and you are extending your settlements continually, and a ...will leave this country. Says one—"What, are the Mormons going to leave Utah?" Oh yes, most of us; we are going to leave, but we shall disappoint some o
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    ...stones of this superstruc-{{page break|86|top}}ture of government in Utah Territory were laid. It was that here, not only Latter-day Saints, but, as I have sai
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    ...them. And I believe that this feeling will be extended throughout all the Territory and throughout all these mountains; for wherever we have gone this summer, ...iven to us yesterday. A hide was sold to a purchaser who sent it from this Territory. It came back to Cache County, where the brand, still legible on the leathe
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    ...oly Ghost, with signs following the believers. Had not this been the case, Utah would be to day, what it was on the 24th of July, 1847, when the pioneers f ...sses throughout this Territory could testify to; and not only they of this Territory, but those of every land and clime wherever the Gospel has been preached an
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    ...I wish to say in relation to this matter is this—In some portions of our Territory, instead of this organization having been carried out in all its perfection ...ze more perfectly the various Branches that are located throughout all the Territory, and in the adjoining Territories. And no doubt those few who are acting in
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    |>=[[../9|The Peculiarities of the People of Utah, Etc.]] ...ill find in California, but your trip will be incomplete without you visit Utah, and see Salt Lake City and its surroundings.
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    ...hren will visit, during the coming fall, the southeastern counties of this Territory—those new counties, Emery and San Juan, which have been recently organize ...t. George. Having had the care of the churches in the southern part of the Territory, to a great extent, I have been obliged to travel a great deal; but this ha
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    ...Rocky Mountains; it is this which caused the founding and peopling of Utah Territory. When attacked, despoiled, and driven by mobs, the Latter-day Saints appeal
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    ...s of France and their sympathizers in America, including the "Liberals" of Utah, are panting for liberty; they are restive under the restraint of order and ...one delinquent or case of embezzlement to where there are ten in any other Territory or State. And yet our {{page break|153|top}} would-be regeneraters are exce
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    ...arriage, it will cease, and that is the best remedy in the world for this "Utah Polygamy," as it is called, Let every man marry, and there will be no singl ...tunity of seeing society, and understanding something of it outside of our Territory." I would not hoodwink a child. I would set before children all which is ne
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    ...falsehood as plain and direct as ever was spoken; for I have lived in this Territory fifteen years and have never known the time when it was {{page break|188|to ...h within itself. Let a person who does not believe in this go through this Territory from north to south and from east to west, and see the flocks of beautiful
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    ...Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They may have never seen an Elder from Utah, and yet when you go into their congregations and meet them, you find that ...greater cause of wonder in the minds of this class than when they come to Utah and see the condition of things existing here, it is so different from ever
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    ...s that travel where our people may, if it be known that they are people of Utah, they can travel with a degree of safety that no one else can, because for ...t of it. The whole people crossed that river and started out into the then Territory of Iowa, with entire confidence that God would lead them to a good place; t
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    ...ot suppose this would be denied by any one who has traveled throughout our Territory, that as a rule the men who are the wealthiest and most influential and the ...y influence at all, it is used against us. They would take control of this Territory from the old settlers and give it to their deadly enemies. The man who woul
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    ...go to and attempt to establish such an organization as we witness in Utah Territory, and what will be the result? If any doubt this let them try it. Let any se ...orous feeling that exists between nationalities is to be witnessed in Utah Territory. This entire people can be moved by a hair when it is in the right directio
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/2
    |>=[[../3|The Settling of Southern Utah—Building of the Temple, Etc.]] ...been lost in settling a country and maintaining peace with the Indians as Utah. To-day the American nation is indebted for the spirit of "Mormonism" that
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/3
    |H=THE SETTLING OF SOUTHERN UTAH—BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 23: THE SETTLING OF SOUTHERN UTAH—BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, ETC.
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/6
    ...praise to him. The brethren who have gone from the different parts of the Territory to labor in the mission have as a general thing, enjoyed good health; and t ...faces: "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Can any good come out of Utah? This of course, is owing to the widespread misunderstanding in regard to o
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/7
    ...but they gave us a Territorial form of government and named the Territory Utah; and strange to say, how men and nations change, they are trying to interfe ...the new theocracy with the descendants of an old theocracy—priest-ridden Utah with "cultured" Massachusetts, also adding the District of Columbia, which
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/10
    ...DIVISIONS IN SECTARIAN CHURCHES—UNITY OF THE SAINTS—EARLY HISTORY OF UTAH—"MORMON" THRIFT AND ENTERPRISE—THE ONE-MAN POWER—GOD'S PEOPLE A FREE ...DIVISIONS IN SECTARIAN CHURCHES—UNITY OF THE SAINTS—EARLY HISTORY OF UTAH—"MORMON" THRIFT AND ENTERPRISE—THE ONE-MAN POWER—GOD'S PEOPLE A FREE
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/11
    ...and spreading abroad, taking root in the land. In the southern part of the Territory they are not prospering to so great an extent as they are in the middle and ...been the case in Utah alone, that is, since the Latter-day Saints came to Utah, but it has been a peculiarity of this work—the work of God—from the da
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/15
    ...r upon the earth. Many who are here to-day, many thousands throughout this Territory, who are now connected with this Church, have wished that they could have l ...hers who lived 1,800 or 2,000 or 3,000 years ago. Utah became an organized territory because of this fact; that there had been begotten in the hearts of the peo
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/19
    ...ir faith by gathering out from the various nations and coming here to Utah Territory. They are believers. Is there any chance for them to doubt? How can you dou
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/24
    ...; in other words, that an investigating committee be sent to the people of Utah to see them as they are; to come, if need be, into our homes and pry into e ...nd. Such domination, ecclesiastical, political or social does not exist in Utah among the "Mormons ;" possibly it may exist in the midst of those comprisin
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/26
    ...or religious standing to jeopardise are satisfied that the affairs of our Territory have been administered honorably and honestly. ...foundation of good government, it will be sons and daughters of polygamous Utah, that will be found the true friends of human liberty, the true friends of
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/30
    ...HIP—THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND HER DAUGHTERS—THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN UTAH—THE RIGHTS OF MAN, THE SUPPORTERS AND SUBVERTERS OF LAW AND ORDER—RELIG ...HIP—THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND HER DAUGHTERS—THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN UTAH—THE RIGHTS OF MAN, THE SUPPORTERS AND SUBVERTERS OF LAW AND ORDER—RELIG
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/31
    ...C—IN TIME OF TROUBLE TRUST IN GOD, "WATCH THE CAPTAIN"—THE ACTS OF THE UTAH COMMISSIONERS—GOD'S OVERRULING POWER AND WISDOM—A GREAT WORK REQUIRES G ...C—IN TIME OF TROUBLE TRUST IN GOD, "WATCH THE CAPTAIN"—THE ACTS OF THE UTAH COMMISSIONERS—GOD'S OVERRULING POWER AND WISDOM—A GREAT WORK REQUIRES G
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/2
    ...s and Territories and of European countries, it appears that the people of Utah stand in the front ranks in relation to education, and are in advance of ma ...ce to deliver them from the power of their enemies; or if the Territory of Utah had been inhabited by the same number of people composed of the various sec
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/4
    ...RTATION FROM ISAIAH—THE SAINTS OBEYING IT—GLIMPSE AT THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH—FULFILLING ANCIENT PROPHECIES—JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, THE DESTINATION ...RTATION FROM ISAIAH—THE SAINTS OBEYING IT—GLIMPSE AT THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH—FULFILLING ANCIENT PROPHECIES—JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, THE DESTINATION
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/6
    ...e existence of spiritual powers and influences, let them examine into this Utah question and the effects of its agitation upon the public mind, and it seem ...to manhood pure, in proportion to the population than in the Territory of Utah.
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/12
    ...ering tales about the life that they will lead if they will only gather to Utah; and by these means they are successful in beguiling the ignorant and unsus ...esident Brigham Young; that no man or woman could write a letter from Utah Territory without it being inspected by him; that we lived here in a condition of ter
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/16
    ...tainly with the increase of the facilities to which I have referred in our Territory, there has been a corresponding increase of evils which have to be contende ...ich drew them here. But no observing man or woman who travels through this Territory, and mingles with the people can be deceived by any such nonsense as this.
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/28
    ...DISPENSATIONS—HOW THE GOSPEL WAS RESTORED—THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST—UTAH BUILT UP BY THE POWER OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH RECEIVED ALL THE KEYS OF THE PR ...DISPENSATIONS—HOW THE GOSPEL WAS RESTORED—THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST—UTAH BUILT UP BY THE POWER OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH RECEIVED ALL THE KEYS OF THE PR
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/29
    ...hose who make these charges claim that it is because of their influence in Utah—the influence of the world—of the public press—the presence in our mi ...of terror never did exist in Utah or among this people anywhere? I came to Utah in 1848; I have been a resident among this people from my childhood; I have
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/30
    ...Territory—that by the combination of these elements the supremacy of the Territory would be wrested from the control of those who had had it in their hands, a ...ort of our destruction. I expect you felt it here as the Saints felt it in Utah, and as I felt it in Washington. The papers, as you will remember, were ful
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/33
    ...people and put it into the hands of their enemies, and make us an outside Territory, subject to their oppressions, subject to all manner of taxation that they ...ir ability, smartness and competency beyond their predecessors, to capture Utah, and turn her over to the hands of the ungodly; it appears that every one w
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/34
    ...this nation in a political point of view. We are here in this Territory of Utah. We were told {{page break|293|top}} to gather here by the Lord, and we hav
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/36
    ...e Gospel, or stay at home and preach it, or go to some distant part of the Territory and help to colonize it, or to perform any other work that is necessary for ...ho has just returned from a mission to his native land. He did not come to Utah to find out if this thing called "Mormonism," was true or not. He found tha
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/40
    ...people, and put it into the hands of their enemies, and make us an outside Territory, subject to their oppressions, subject to all manner of taxation that they ...r ability, smartness and competency, beyond their predecessors, to capture Utah, and turn her over to the hands of the ungodly; it appears that every one w
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/11
    ...day cannot be narrowed down to the few people who live in the Territory of Utah. But running out from here as veins and arteries from the human heart, it p
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/12
    ...per cent contributed seven-eighths. The number of brothels throughout the Territory was 12, all kept by non-Mormons."
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/14
    ...CAL FACTS THAT OUGHT TO BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM—ANOMALOUS TREATMENT OF UTAH—GOVERNOR YOUNG'S POLICY AND THAT OF HIS SUCCESSOR DIFFERENT—ISAIAH'S PR ...CAL FACTS THAT OUGHT TO BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM—ANOMALOUS TREATMENT OF UTAH—GOVERNOR YOUNG'S POLICY AND THAT OF HIS SUCCESSOR DIFFERENT—ISAIAH'S PR
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/18
    ...e without a governor, and wanted one? We would turn back in the history of Utah, and find how Governor Young was appointed, and then appoint one the same w ...he Elders to administer to the sick, and they are healed, and thousands in Utah, and hundreds throughout the world, can testify that they have seen the pow
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/24
    ...in the Territories of Arizona or New Mexico, not even in the Territory of Utah. From my earliest recollections, pretty nearly, to the present time, consta ...ies in the same condition that enemies have shown themselves to be in this Territory—fighting, beating the empty air, thinking that they had a foe before them
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/26
    ...te of all earth and hell. That is what it means. Had it not been for this, Utah would have been a desert today as it was when we found it. ...n in a thousand that attempts to represent this case. We have not a boy in Utah in our common schools, over twelve years of age, but knows, when he reads t
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/30
    ...and by his efforts, many of the people, especially in the southern part of Utah and in Arizona, became united together in organizations that were called "t ...tion to the Latter-day Saints, and in using his power abroad as well as in Utah against the interests of the people from whom he gets his money.
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/36
    ...h our declared enemies, take possession of the reins of government in this Territory, and manage affairs, so that they would be more in accord with the general ...the Son of God, a jealousy of the power that Priesthood wields, and in our Territory they are constantly seeking by every means within their reach to weaken the
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/38
    ...t there is a combination in all the officers of State, officiating in this Territory, to back up this political intrigue in the interest of party, and at the sa "The population of Utah may be estimated at 160,000 in 1883.
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/41
    ...TES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. OFFICIALS AS EXHIBITED IN THE COURTS OF UTAH ...TES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. OFFICIALS AS EXHIBITED IN THE COURTS OF UTAH
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  • Question: Did Joseph and others with him remove their garments in order to avoid being identified as polygamists?
    ...yrum was further elaborated on by Hubert Howe Bancroft in his ''History of Utah''. Bancroft notes the following regarding the temple garment, ...ot done so, he would have escaped unharmed.<ref>{{Book:Bancroft:History of Utah|pages=357 n.17}}</ref>
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Witness accounts
    ...of Martin Harris, Sr., to Hanna B. Emerson, January 1871, Smithfield, Utah Territory, ''[[Saints' Herald]]'' 22 (15 October 1875):630, in ''EMD'' 2: 338 ("No ma ...in the possession of his daughter, Florence (Godfrey) Munson of Fielding, Utah; quoted in Eldin Ricks, The Case of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses
    ...of Martin Harris, Sr., to Hanna B. Emerson, January 1871, Smithfield, Utah Territory, in ''EMD'', 2: 338. See also Richard Lloyd Anderson, ''Investigating the B "In 1856 Harris's wife left him to gather with the Mormons in Utah. Harris remained in Kirtland and, as caretaker of the temple, gave tours to
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  • Question: Why did Brigham Young instruct members of the Church to grow tobacco in Utah?
    ...n: Why did Brigham Young instruct members of the Church to grow tobacco in Utah?== ...spent annually on tobacco he preferred that these funds remain within the territory to foster further economic growth and self-sufficiency===
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  • Question: Isn't the Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage hypocritical, considering that they used to ban black from holding the priesthood until 1978?
    ...lege of and more."<ref>Brigham Young, Speech given in Joint Session of the Utah Legislature, February 5, 1952 in Fred Collier, ''The Teachings of President ...12, http://seminary.lds.org/history/centennial/eng/how-to-survive-in-enemy-territory/.</ref></blockquote>
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  • Question: Was the Mormon priesthood ban simply a policy or was it doctrine?
    ...y in Utah?|slavery did become a practice]] among certain Saints during the Utah period). ...llin H. Oaks, Interview with Associated Press, in ''Daily Herald,'' Provo, Utah, 5 June 1988.</ref>
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  • Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58
    ...r C. Kimball stated, “We are the people of Deseret, she shall be no more Utah: we will have our own name”. Why did this prophecy fail?" ...r C. Kimball stated, “We are the people of Deseret, she shall be no more Utah: we will have our own name”. Why did this prophecy fail?"==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Blacks and the Priesthood
    |L3=Response to claim: "Slaves were bought and sold in Utah Territory with the approval of Brigham Young" ==Response to claim: "Slaves were bought and sold in Utah Territory with the approval of Brigham Young"==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/FutureMissionary.com/Black Mormons
    ...pose slavery?" They answer that Joseph Smith opposed it, but that the Utah territory allowed it. ...avery, which was legal at the time. This practice carried over to the Utah territory. The entire country eventually went to war with itself over this issue.
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  • Detailed response to CES Letter, Other
    *[[Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a m ...ing on the internet and attempting to imply that the internet is dangerous territory for testimonies and finding truth.
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  • Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/7
    ...of seceders from the Church have continuously resided and now live in this territory, many of whom have amassed considerable wealth, though bitterly opposed to * To be sure, there was some extra-legal violence in Utah, as there was everywhere on the American frontier (and as there still is to
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a "33rd degree" Mason?
    ...lodges (the only lodges to which Brigham had access prior to the exodus to Utah) in 1857, long after Brigham's departure. (The 33 degree did not become for ...tory and a Grand Lodge is made up of all the Master Mason in that state or territory. The highest office any Mason can hold is that of Grand Master of a Grand L
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  • Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban?
    ...of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'', 2 vols., DVD (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 2002), 1:18.</ref> ....wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Place_Monument [t]his is the place],” in Utah. He’s had the great experience of starting up the Mormon experiment in th
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  • Question: Did Brigham Young claim that too much education was damaging to children?
    ...he same number of our Children gathered up promiscusly in the Territory of Utah. '''There are some people & Countries who force & whip their Children into
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  • Question: Was Utah's second governor, John W. Dawson, beaten by Latter-day Saints?
    ==Question: Was Utah's second governor, John W. Dawson, beaten by Latter-day Saints?== ...y and soundly beaten by a party of saints."<ref>{{Book:Bancroft:History of Utah|pages=604}}</ref> Some charged that Dawson had done this on his own, while
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  • Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
    ...ded so to do. For ten years after plural marriage had been introduced into Utah as a Church observance, no law was enacted in opposition to the practise. B ...nted by the Church as a missionary in that district, and resides in Logan, Utah.
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  • Question: Was Ezra Booth commanded to take a wife from among the Indians?
    ...omised to bless those who do it abundantly, gain a residence in the Indian territory, independent of the agent....<ref>{{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pa ...imonial alliance" was for the purpose of gaining "residence" in the Indian territory===
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  • Question: Was murder a crime that was "worthy of death" among 19th century Mormons?
    ...the founders of Utah incorporated in the laws of the Territory provisions for the capital punishment of those who wilfully shed the blood ...tory_encyclopedia/c/CAPITAL_PUNISHMENT.html CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN UTAH], ''Utah History Encyclopedia'' </ref>
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  • Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy
    ...sure them up. Amen." <ref>Tullidge's Histories, Vol I. History of Northern Utah, and Southern Idaho.--Biographical Supplement, p. 271. See {{HC1|vol=5|star ...ters were for the time forgotten." <ref>Hubert Howe Bancroft, ''History of Utah, 1540-1886'', 198.</ref> Thus, Bancroft saw the move west as one long conte
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  • Question: Did Brigham Young "proudly admit" to being a dictator?
    ...to show that Brigham Young was the political dictator of the Territory of Utah, the author has quoted from a speech of Brigham Young recorded in the ''Jou
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  • Question: Did John Taylor believe that there was no longer a separation between Church and State?
    Taylor is not gloating that there is no more secular power in Utah territory. Rather, he is pointing out that no one among the Saints has secular solut
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  • Question: Did Heber C. Kimball encourage violence and intimidation in order to keep followers "in line"?
    ...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 lis
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  • Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives?
    ==Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives?== ...espite disagreeing with the Mormons and their administration, did not flee Utah, and suffered no consequences as a result. The St. Louis ''Republican'' cri
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  • Question: Did Brigham Young issue orders that no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah?
    ...at no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah?== In attempting to identify reasons for conflict between Utah Mormons and non-Mormon emigrants and travelers, the author uses a letter fr
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  • Question: Did Brigham Young order that the Mount Meadows monument be destroyed?
    ...aid to have been destroyed the first time Brigham visited that part of the Territory" (Waite, ''The Mormon Prophet and his Harem'', 71). ...ly connected by the judge with President Young’s first visit to southern Utah after it was erected (1861)."<ref>{CHC1|vol=4|pages=176, note}}; also cited
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  • Question: Is it true that there is no mention of Joseph Smith seeing the Father and Son in any “contemporary” newspaper, diary, LDS publication, or writing of any kind until the year 1838?
    ...tharine Miles Larson, eds., ''Diary of Charles Lowell Walker'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1980), 2:755–56 [recorded 2 February 1893]. Fifty-three years ago in the town of Pontiac, Oakland County and then Territory, but since State of Michigan when I was but thirteen years of age. I first
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  • Source:Martin Harris:EMD 2:338:no man ever heard me in any way deny the truth of the Book of Mormon
    .... <ref>Letter of Martin Harris, Sr., to Hanna B. Emerson, Smithfield, Utah Territory, in ''Early Mormon Documents'', 2: 338.</ref>
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  • Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Although some leaders had large polygamous families, two-thirds of polygamist men had only two wives at a time
    "Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah," ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org: ...and-families-in-early-utah?lang=eng "Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org (2013)</ref>
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  • Question: Does the Book of Mormon fit best in a geography located around the Great Lakes, between the United States and Canada?
    ...ren, ''The Land of Lehi: Further Evidence for the Book of Mormon'' (Provo, Utah: Bradford & Wilson, 1995). ...posals that are trying to reclaim New York as ancient Nephite and Lamanite territory...
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  • Question: Was there a "deal" made with Brigham Young regarding prosecution for the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
    ...de to frustrate further prosecutions, an acting attorney general confirmed Utah inquiries from the U.S. marshal that reward money was still offered for the ...tion by Rev. Robert Joseph Dwyer later published as ''The Gentile Comes to Utah: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862—1890).'' This is a weak w
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  • Question: Was prosecution of those responsible for Mountain Meadows Massacre blocked by the Church?
    * The post-Utah war amnesty led some non-members to believe that the massacre was covered u * The grand jury in southern Utah was never asked to indict anyone for the Massacre during their first sessio
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  • Question: Were Brigham Young and the entire Church hierarchy responsible for the "Parrish-Potter" murders?
    ...ssed [[Crime_and_violence_in_Utah|here]], violent crime and vigilantism in Utah was much ''less'' frequent than elsewhere in the Union, especially on the f ...OOT=/jmh&CISOPTR=18820&REC=3}}</ref> to date of the murder in Springville, Utah, of Mormon apostates William and “Beason” Parrish and spy “Duff” Po
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  • Question: What was Brigham Young's position on punishing theft without due process?
    Despite invitations to leave, debt and poverty in Utah could be a significant barrier for apostates to actually do so.<ref>Aird, p ...to be entertained. The fact that hundreds annually have peaceably left the Territory, from its first settlement to the present time is ample refutation of any s
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  • Historical summary of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
    ===In September 1857 a group of Mormons in southern Utah killed all adult members of an Arkansas wagon train that was headed for Cal In September 1857 a group of Mormons in southern Utah killed all adult members of an Arkansas wagon train that was headed for Cal
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  • Others and Mountain Meadows: Captain Stewart Van Vliet
    ...massacre, because if Van Vliet came to know about it, "an invasion of Utah Territory would be expedited" (p. 165). There is no historical support for this claim
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  • Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?
    ==Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?== ===Brigham Young instituted slavery in Utah===
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  • Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
    ...te professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Utah, in the June 1989 issue of ''Sunstone Magazine''.<ref>Fred Buchanan, "[http ...e island of Great Comoro (Grande Comore) where Maroni, the capitol of this territory (not shown on the map discussed here or on other period maps which I have e
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