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Thus has the "mining spirit" been kept alive, and impostors of every variety have reaped their harvest, by speculating upon the well-known avidity of the "people of America!" It was in the beginning of 1827, that Joe, in a trip to Pittsburg, became acquainted with Rigdon.
Leaning forward, one arm on his knee, the document in question in his hand, Rigdon looked up into Geraldine's pale face.
As he proceeded he called for the converts to step forward. They came through the crowd in rapid succession to the number of thirty, and were immersed, with no intermission of the discourse on the part of Rigdon. Mr. Card was apparently the most stoical of men of a clear, unexcitable temperament, with unorthodox and vague religious ideas.
The contest was a bloody one: suffice it to say, that, finally, Smith, Rigdon, and many others were taken, and, at a court of inquiry, were remanded over for trial. Rigdon was afterwards discharged on habeas corpus, and Smith and his comrades, after being in prison several months, escaped from their guards, and reached Quincy, Illinois.
"What is a glimpse of New Orleans or the White Sulphur Springs once in a great while!" "'This world is but a fleeting show," quoted Rigdon, with a palpable effort to laugh off the inappropriate subject. "Oh, that is what people always tell the restricted, especially when they are themselves drinking the wine-cup to the bottom." "And finding the lees bitter," said Rigdon.
Smith, Oliver Cowdrey, one or two others, and myself. We were brought up for the offense before the Church authorities. Sidney Rigdon and Wm. Smith were excused, and the matter hushed up. But Cowdrey and myself were proceeded against and our choice given us between making a public confession or being dropped from the Church.
Many of the Colts, however, were entirely correct, and all were in reasonably good condition. Rand saw something that interested him, and picked it up. "That isn't a real Colt," the exquisite Mr. Gillis told him. "It's a Confederate copy; a Leech & Rigdon." "So I see. I have a Griswold & Grier, but no Leech & Rigdon." "The Griswold & Grier; that's the one with the brass frame," Cecil Gillis said.
After that Rigdon never countermanded the orders of the Prophet, to my knowledge; he knew who was boss. An order had been issued by the Church authorities commanding all the members of the Mormon Church to leave their farms and take such property as they could remove and go to one of the two fortified camps that is Far West or Adam-on-Diamond.
But I have reflected much since that time, and have come to the conclusion that each man is accountable for his own sins; also that the course I have been pursuing injures me alone, and I intend to visit the Saints and again ask to be admitted into the Church. Rigdon has gone to destruction, and Wm. Smith is not much better off to-day than I am." This conversation was a comfort to me.
Two words more upon Rigdon, before we leave him in his comparative insignificance! It was easy for him, from the first planning of his intended imposture to publicly discuss, in the pulpit, many strange points of controversy, which were eventually to become the corner-stones of the structure which he wished to raise.
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