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THE STORY OF MORMONISM.
Notwithstanding their enormous losses, and the extreme
indigence of many, the saints were not all as
destitute of credit as they were of ready means, if
we may judge by their business transacted during
the year 1839. Bishop Knight bought for the church
part of the town of Keokuk, Iowa, situated on the
west bank of the Mississippi, forty miles above Quincy,
Illinois. He also purchased the whole of another
town-site called Nashville, six miles above Keokuk.
Four miles above Nashville was a settlement called
Montrose, part of which Knight bought, together
with thirty thousand acres of land. 43
Opposite Montrose, on the east bank of the Mis-
sissippi where was a good landing, stood a village
Nauvoo. (New York, 1844). With a title-page from which so much information
is to be derived, we must not expect too much from the book itself.
A portion of this correspondence was published in the Times and Seasons.
Late Persecution of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ten
thousand American citizens robbed, plundered, and banished ; others imprisoned,
and others martyred for their Religion. With a sketch of their Rise, Progress,
and Doctrine. By P. P. Pratt, Minister of the Gospel. Written in prison
(New York, 1840). This is a 16mo vol. of 215 pages, most of which is devoted
to the Missouri persecutions, with but little other history, except what is thrown
in incidentally. An appendix of 37 pages is made up mostly from Greene's
Facts. Pratt gives a graphic account of his life in prison, and of the means
whereby, with the cooperation of his wife, he rescued from jail the manuscript
of this book, which was written there. After mentioning them, he says:
•Thus, kind reader, was this little book providentially, and I may say miraculously,
preserved, and by this means you have it to read.' The first edition
was published at Detroit, Michigan, the book consisting then of 84 pages.
Full reference for the persecutions of the Mormons in Missouri, 1831-39.
Memorial to Legislature Mass. in 1844, against such conduct, in Times and
Seasons, i. 17-20, 33-6, 49-56, 65-6, 81-6,94, 97-104, 113-16, 128-34, 145-50,
161-7, 177; v. 514-19; Pratt's Persecution of the Saints, 21-215; Utah Tracts,
no. 4, 56-64; Pratt's Autobiography, 190-237, 311-22, 336-40; Smucker's Hist.
Mor., S6; Deseret News, Dec. 27, 1851, Nov. 29 and Dec. 27, 1851, June
30, 1869; Mackay's T'he Mormons, 106-14; Tucker's Origin and Prog. Mor.,
160-6; Howe's Mormonism Unveiled, 138-76; Ferris' Utah and the Mormons,
87-8, 90; White's Ten Years in Or., 144; Taylder's Mormon's Own Book, xliii.xlvi.;
Gunnison's Mormons, 104-14; Millennial Star, xx v., 535-6, 550-2, 599-
600, 614-16, 631; Burnett's Rec., 56; Beadle's Life in Utah, 60; Lee's Mormonkm,
55-90; Tullidge's Women, 116-74; Richards' Narrative, MS., 6-9;
Young's Wife No. 19, 43-53; Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1869; Stenhouse, Les
Mormons, 154-71; Libert)/ Tribune; Margaret Smoot's Experiences of a Mormon
Wife, MS., 2-3: Famham's Travels Rocky Mts., 6; Bertrand's Mem.
Mor., 51; Busch, Gesch. der Mor., 85-7, 90-7; Juvenile Instructor, xv. 78;
Kidder's Mormonism, 133-5; Iowa Frontier Guardian, March 21, 1849; Rabbison's
Growth of 'Towns, MS., 2-5.
48 ' Since their expulsion from Missouri a portion of them, about one hundred
families, have settled in Lee county, Iowa Territory, and are generally
considered industrious, inoffensive, and worthy citizens. 5
Letter from Robert
Lucas, governor of Iowa, to A. Ripley, dated Jan. 4, 1S40.