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Show 255 about this thoughts be It must of the federal before Lyman We the subject in most a renanbered that this 7aS troops reached the and Rich arrived in unmistaJcable manner. six weeJcs valley and before word just a few days Salt Lake: in t.he happiest situation of any people in tve inhabi t the very land in which we can in peace, and there is no other place on this earth are world. live that the So,ints can now Ld, ve in 't'ri thout being molested. for instance, you should go to California. Brothers Amasa Lyman and Charles C. Rich went and made a settlement in southern California and many of the brethren Here anxious that the whole Church should go If we had there.. gone there, this wou l d have been about the last year in which any of the Saints could Suppose, stay there. They wou Ld It is about the homes. Were be to stay there. of that place, he would and that it live there, driven from their last year that Bro. Amasa can tell you the true situation tell you that hell reigns there is just as much as any Normon can do to and that it is about time for himself and have been Saint to leave that land. have often said, I am thanJcful to a fullness that the Lord has brought us to these barren mountains, to this desolate waste, wher-e only Saints can or would live, to a region that is not desired by any other true every As I of class third The of the in this cal Saints area in California. Be and had been one candidate San ,ula Battalion southern point earth.20 Bernardino felt end, be soon wa s had of California. in the 20Journal that evidence of of Jefferson Hunt. action Mormon in people probably served in the most For election some of can the that the Normon gathered from period the politi- veteran of the best-lH:ea Mormon in all This the indicated that many capable state since assably in respected assemblymen reason, Hunt September, History of the Church, declined 1857, June and 7, to the 1857. of 1852 all be seat of a |
