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Brigham Young's letter on the end of the Mormon War... Mormons to move to Vancouver...
Brigham Young's letter on the end of the Mormon War... Mormons to move to Vancouver...
Item # 685149
October 25, 1845
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 25, 1845
* Brigham Young letter to governor of Illinois
* de facto end of the Mormon War in Illinois
* re. the Mormons exodus the following year
Pages 2 and 3 contain over a full column of reporting concerning the Mormon War. It begins with: "Illinois--The end of the Mormon War" which includes the pledge of the Mormons, signed in type: Brigham Young, Pres't.
The back page has a very brief year quite historic item: "The Mormons have held a grand convention at Nauvoo, and unanimously resolved to leave the state of Illinois, and settle on Vancouver's Island, at the mouth of the Columbia river." Obviously their place of settlement would be at the Great Salt Lake.
Also inside is: "Sketches of the Great West" - Col. Kearney's Expedition" which takes nearly two pages.
Sixteen pages, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, very nice condition.
AI notes: In 1845, Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles issued a public letter from Nauvoo declaring that the Latter-day Saints would leave Illinois in the spring of 1846. The letter aimed to calm tensions following months of violence and pressure from anti-Mormon mobs. It called for peace, defended the Saints' right to self-preservation, and emphasized that they were leaving to escape persecution, not because of guilt. The announcement helped bring an end to the Mormon conflict in Illinois and marked the beginning of the westward migration.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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