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Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
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Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
Series: John Harvard Library (Hardcover), 86
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1855 Excerpt: ...how little a really good thing is sometimes
appreciated. The first objects I saw in approaching the city were
the remains of what was once the Temple, tion of the Church, and on
principles so broad that every honest man might dwell secure under
its protective influence, without distinction of sect or party."
Having laid this foundation for the gathering of the Saints, a
proclamation was issued on the 15th of January, 1841, by the First
Presidency of the Church--Joseph Smith, Sidney fiidgon and Hyrum
Smith, inviting the wealthy to remove to Nauvoo and neighbourhood,
and establish and build up manufactories in the city, and purchase
and cultivate farms in the country, that a permanent inheritance
might be secured, and the way prepared for the gathering of the
poor. At this time the population of the city was upwards of 3000.
John C. Bennett, M.D., was elected first mayor. An early ordinance,
passed by the Corporation, was one in relation to religious
liberty. It provided that all religious sects and denominations
should have free toleration and equal privileges within the city,
and that any person ridiculing or abusing another on account of his
religious belief, should, on conviction thereof before the Mayor or
Municipal Court, be fined in any sum not exceeding 500 dollars, or
imprisoned not exceeding 6 months. On the 3rd of February,
ordinances were passed organizing the Nauvoo Legion and the
University, and on the 15th, one was passed regulating the sale of
intoxicating liquors, with a view to prevent the introduction of
drunkenness into the city. On the 10th of March the State
Legislature passed "An Act to incorporate the Nauvoo Agricultural
and Manufacturing Association, in the county of Hancock." The
object of this association was the prom...
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