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Updated: September 22, 2025
The column in question was of white pine, as usual though latterly, in brick edifices, bricks and stucco are much resorted to and, at a convenient height for the whittlers, it was literally cut two-thirds in two.
Thus things went from bad to worse while the saints remained at Nauvoo. Much of the trouble that came upon the Church was brought down through the folly of the Saints. A company was organized called the "Whittlers." They had long knives, and when a stranger came to town they would gather around him and whittle, none of them saying a word, no matter what question was asked.
If only he could hear again its wail, its sob, its grief, its moaning. Oh, no. It was impossible to tell Celia that he no longer had work. He had no courage to face the steel blue of her eye. Impossible, too, to face the sarcastic whittlers of the little sticks who sat around the corner grocery in the morning, he who was to have conquered the West and build the Magic City.
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