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She clapped her hands. "But you didn't have to. I only embarrassed you by appearing on my own account. You have some spirit, though. You came to the Adams circle, last night. You did your duty. I expected you. But you must not do it again." "Why not?" "There are objections, there." "From you?" "No." "From Hyrum?" "Not yet." "From that Daniel, then.
"That was merely for the time being. I asked you to leave me at the fire because I felt sure that Daniel would kill you." "But yesterday evening I refer to yesterday," I corrected. "You sent me word, following my talk with Hyrum." "I did not." "Not by Rachael?" "No, sir." "I so understood. I thought that she intimated as much. She said that you were to be happy; were already content.
Thus viewing it I fought an odd disappointment in myself, coupled with a keener disappointment in her. "You talked to Hyrum, I see," Jenks commented. "I did." "'Bout Dan'l, mebbe?" "I wanted to make plain that the business is none of my seeking. Hyrum is wagon master." "Didn't get any satisfaction, I'll bet." "No. On the contrary." "I could have told you you'd be wastin' powder."
He kissed his mother, and told her that his time had come, and that he must seal his testimony with his blood. He advised his brother Hyrum not to go with him, saying that he would be a comfort to the Church when he, the Prophet, was no more. Hyrum said: "No, my brother; I have been with you in life, and will be with you in death!"
Then the firing began. The mob rushed up the stairs, shooting into the room where the four brethren were. The prisoners sprang to the door to close it but the guns of the mob forced it open. Elders Taylor and Richards tried to push the guns aside with their canes. The bullets flew like hail into the room. One ball came through the door and struck Hyrum in the head.
The excitement among the people became so great that the subject was laid before the Prophet. No one was more opposed to it than was his brother Hyrum, who condemned it as from beneath. Joseph saw that it would break up the Church should he sanction it, so he denounced the pamphlet through the Wasp, a newspaper published at Nauvoo, as a bundle of nonsense and trash.
1 Samuel H. Rogers 6 Hyrum Judd 2 Henry Standage 7 Samuel Thompson 3 Edward Bunker 8 Wm. 1 Rufus C. Allen 2 John Steele 3 Reuben Allred 4 Elzada Ford Allred 5 Wm. The enlistment term expired in January, but it was March, 1848, before the men were paid off and discharged.
Why, they're Mormons and good Mormons, and why should I not be made over? I'm under their teachings; I am Edna, already; it's time Daniel had a wife or two, for replenishing Utah. Rachael calls me 'sister, and I can't resent it. Good at heart as she is, even she is convinced. Why," and she laughed mirthlessly, "I may be sealed to Hyrum himself, if nothing worse is in store.
Friends, I am learning, have their own hides to consider. And those gentlemen of yours are Gentiles with goods for Salt Lake Mormons. Are they going to throw all business to the winds?" "You yourself may appeal to his father, and to the women, for protection if that lout annoys you," I ventured. "To them?" she scoffed. "To Hyrum Adams' outfit?
So they have taken away the arms from the Mormon company of militia, and the other day they went up to Far West with three or four thousand men, and they got Smith and his brother Hyrum and three of the elders to come out to them, and they court-martialled them and ordered them all to be shot the next day. "But it wasn't done, madam," he added hastily.
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