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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 22 |
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Show 20 A REMARKABLE TESTIMONY. Brigham Young remarked to the congregation: " I will manage this voting for Elder Eigdon. He does not preside here. This child" ( meaning himself) " will manage this flock for a season. ' ' The voice and gestures of the man were those of the Prophet Joseph. The people, with few exceptions, visibly saw that the man-tle of the prophet Joseph had fallen upon Brigham Young. To some it seemed as though Joseph again stood before them. I arose to my feet and said to a man sitting by me, uThat is the voice of the true shepherd the chief of the Apostles. ' ' Our enemies, finding that the death of the Prophet did not break up " Mormonism," as they had expected, began their persecutions again, by burning the houses of the brethren in the outlying settlements. I joined a company of minute men to assist in protecting the Saints. In one of our scouts we visited Carthage. I examined the jail in which Joseph and Hyruin were assas-sinated. 1 noticed that the latches on the two doors that the mob broke ID, when they killed the Prophets, had been ren-dered useless by bending down the catches, so that the latches would clear them. All the entrances to the prison yard appeared to me to have been prepared beforehand for the easy admittance of the mob. The blood on the floor where the Patriarch fell, had left a black spot about the size and shape of the body. The ball holes in the plastering about the window out of which Joseph leaped, and those in the door and in the wall above where Hyrum had lain, and also where John Taylor had been shot at, denoted that the assailants were desperadoes and well prepared for their work. When the District Court sat in Hancock County, the judge allowed one of the leaders of the mob to act as an official. He also professed to try to have the murderers indicted, but as several of them were on the grand jury, there were no in-dictments found against them. The following winter I assisted in guarding the Saints in and around the city of Nauvoo. My brother Obed lived about thirty miles out in the country. He was taken sick, and sent for me - to come and see him. |