Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . t resort, to leap from thewindow, when two balls pierced him fromthe door, one of which entered his rightbreast, and he staggered lifeless, exclaim-ing, 0 Lord, mi/ God/ He fell on liisleft
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . t resort, to leap from thewindow, when two balls pierced him fromthe door, one of which entered his rightbreast, and he staggered lifeless, exclaim-ing, 0 Lord, mi/ God/ He fell on liisleft side, a dead man. The excitement inall parts of the west, following this event,was tremendous. An address was now sent forth to allthe saints in the world, announcing, withlamentations, the death of the LordsProphet. I5righam Young, a native ofAVhittinghani, Yt., succeeded to the j)rcsi-dency, tlius defeating Ivigdon, who claimedthe office, but who was forthwith cut off,and delivered over to the buffetings ofSatan. The next great stcj) was theabandonment of Nauvoo, on accoujit of thebitter liostility of the Illinoisians to theexistence of Mormonism in their was a city regularly laid out withbroad streets crossing at right angles, andthe houses were built generally of ,with a few frame and brick biiildiiigsinterspersed. A temj)lc, one hundred andthirty feet long by ninety wide, was. UORUON TEMPLE. erected of polished limestoi e ; the bap-tistry was in the basement, and held alargo stone basin supported by twelvecolossal oxen. In 1S4S, tliis building wasset on fire by an incendiary, and all con-sumed except the walls, which were finallydestroyed by a tornado, in ;0. Tiie valley of the (treat Salt Lake, inUtah, now became the new promised land of the exiled Mormons, and, cross-ing the frozen ilississijipi in the winter of1846, the exodus began ; in the summerensuing, they commenced to lay thefoundations of the city,—the New Jeru-salem. Soon after, the who
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