History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

MILITARY ORGANIZATION. 105
ten, twenty, fifty, or one hundred. Thereupon these
and others went out in various directions to raise
men and means for a religio-military expedition to
Missouri. There were churches now in every direction,
and the brethren were scattered over a broad
area.
Several appeals for redress were made by the
saints at Independence to the governor of Missouri,
and to the president of the United States. The
president said it was a matter for the governor to
regulate, and the governor did not see what could be
done except through the courts. A court of inquiry
was instituted, which decided, but to little purpose,
that there was no insurrection on the 5th of Novem-
ber, 1833, and therefore the arms taken by the militia
from the Mormons on that occasion must be restored
to them. 43 "And now a commandment I give unto
you concerning Zion, that you shall no longer be
bound as an united order to your brethren of Zion,
only in this wise; after you are organized you shall
be called the united order of this stake of Zion, the city
of Shinehah, 49 and your brethren, after they are organized,
shall be called the united order of the city of
Zion."
On the 7th of May, 1834, a military company was
organized at Kirtland under the name of Zion's camp,
consisting of one hundred and fifty brethren, mostly
young men, elders, priests, teachers, and deacons, with
48 'About this time a court of inquiry held at Liberty for the purpose of
investigating the action of (Jol Pitcher, in connection with the expulsion of
the saints from Jackson co. , found sufficient evidence against that officer to
result in his being placed in arrest for trial by court-martial. The plant of
the printing-office was given by the citizens to Davis & Kelly, who removed
it to Liberty, where they commenced the publication of a weekly paper called
the Missouri Enquirer.' ' The citizens also paid §300 on the §l,000note given
by the elders to their lawyers, thus acknowledging their action had been
wrong.' Times and Seasons, vi. 9G1. ' The governor also ordered them to restore
our arms which they had taken from us, but they never were restored.'
Pratt's Persecution, 52. See also Tayller's Mormons, xliii.-xlvi. ; Deseret New*,
Dec. 27, 1851, and June 30, 18G9; Utah Tracts, no. 4, 5G-G4; Millennial Star,
xxv. 535-G, 550-2; Gunnison's Mormons, 104-14; Ferris' Utah and Mormons,
87-S.
i9 They 'called their Kirtland colony Shinahar.' Gunnison's Mormons, 1G7.