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Show CHAPTER III: IN DEFENSE OF ZION 1. George A. Smith, Journal of Discourses 5 (13 September l857):224; also Brigham Young speech, Journal History, 12 June I858, p. 9. 2. Doctrine and Covenants, 115:6. 3. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5 (13 September l857):231. 4. Ibid., p. 232. 5. George A. Smith speech, Journal History, 12 June I858, p. 5. 6. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5 (18 October 1857)1336, 338. Also see "The Utah Question," Millennial Star 19 (19 December l857):809-10. 7. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5 (5 July l857):5. 8. Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:240. 9. Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Utah (San Francisco: San Francisco History Co., I890), p. 509. 10. In a case study of Beaver, Utah, based on the i860 Federal census returns, it was determined that 17$ of Beaver's 785 citizens were males between tbe ages of eighteen and forty-five. If this ratio held true throughout the Territory in I858, the number of men in the militia might have been as high as 6800 based on a population of 40,000. •11. Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:264. 12. Ibid., 4:273-74. 13- Dame's report of 23 August 1857 quoted in Juanita Brooks, John Doyle L e e - Zealot-Pioneer Builder-Scapegoat (Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1962), pp. 201-2. Returns of 10 October 1857 from Nauvoo Legion Papers, (microfilm), Brigham Young University. 14. George A. Smith, Journal of Discourses 5 (13 September 1857):223. Joseph 336 |