. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ias CaptainFearnaught. Its object was the punishment of the obnoxious. Sometime elapsed before finding a suitable name. They desired one thatwould combine spiritual authority with a suitable sound. Micah iv: 13,furnished the first name, Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for Iwill make thy horn iron and thy hoofs brass, and thou shalt beat inpieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ias CaptainFearnaught. Its object was the punishment of the obnoxious. Sometime elapsed before finding a suitable name. They desired one thatwould combine spiritual authority with a suitable sound. Micah iv: 13,furnished the first name, Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for Iwill make thy horn iron and thy hoofs brass, and thou shalt beat inpieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain to the Lord of thewhole earth. This furnished them with a pretext, it accuratelydescribed their intentions, and they called themselves theDaughters of Zion/ Some ridiculewas made at thesebearded and bloody Daughters, and thename did not siteasily. DestroyingAngels came next;the Big fan of thethresher that shouldthoroughly purge thefloor, was tried anddropped. Genesisxeix: 17, furnishedthe named finally as-sumed. The verse isquite significant:Dan shall be a ser-pent by the way, anadder in the paththat biteth the horsesheel so that his ridershall fall Sons of Danwas the stvle tliev. jjz-j A DANITE. ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 295 adopted,and manyhave been the timesthat they havebeen adders in thepath, and many aman has fallenbackward and hasbeen seen nomore. Such wasthe origin of theDanites, whose ter-rorism has pervad-ed all ranks of theMormon Churchand priesthood,and whose ven-geance has not a-lone been wreakedupon the Gentile,but by order of theleaders, upon of-fending eldersin the Younghimself has often publicly declared the existence of such an organiza-tion, and notably so when from the platform of the Tabernacle he said: If men come here and do not behave themselves they will not onlyfind the Danites biting their horses heels, but the scoundrels will findsomething biting their heels. In my plain remarks I call things by theirown names.—D
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