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 . ce of the cluircli was heUl at Fayette,N. Y., and soon after, Messrs. Pratt andRigdon united pulilicly with the , converts multiplied rapidly. Early in 1831, Smith set out fo
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 . ce of the cluircli was heUl at Fayette,N. Y., and soon after, Messrs. Pratt andRigdon united pulilicly with the , converts multiplied rapidly. Early in 1831, Smith set out for Kirt-land, Ohio, which, for a time, became thechief city of his followers. The elderssoon received command to go forth in pairsand preach, the Melcliizedek or superiorpriesthood heing first conferred upon themin June. A considerable body of Mor-mons transferred themselves to Jacksoncounty, Missouri, in the summer of thisyear. So rapidly did their numbers aug-ment in this region, that the older settlersbecame alarmed, and held ])ublic meetingsprotesting against the continuance of thesect in their neighborhood. Among tlieresolutions passed at these meetings wasone requiring the Mormon ])ai)er to bestopped, hut, as this was not ininicdiatelycomplied with, the office of the pajier wasdestroyed. Finally, thej- agreed to re-move from that county into Clay county,across the Missouri, before doing which,. however, houses were destroyed, menwhii>ped, and some lives were lost on bothsides. These outrages, according to the annalsgiven by Perkins, kindled the wrath ofthe prophet at Kirtland, who took steps tobring about a great gathering of his disciples, and, marshaling them as anarmy, in May, 1834, he started for , which in due time he reached, butwith no other result than the transfer of acertain portion of his followers as per-manent residents in a section already toofull of them. At first, the citizens ofClay county were friendly to the perse-cuted ; but ere long, troub
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