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Identifier: mormonsorlatterd00mackrich (find matches)
Title: The Mormons: or Latter-day saints, with memoirs of the life and death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mahomet."
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887
Subjects: Mormons
Publisher: London (ngram)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e emigha>;t life on the prairies. 201 many repeated descriptions of which they have been the subject.The desert march, the ford, the quicksand, the Indian battle, the bisonchase, the prairie fire:—the adventures of the Mormons comprisedevery variety of these varieties ; but I could not hope to invest themwith the interest of novelty. The character of their every-day life, itsroutine and conduct, alone offered any exclusive or marked peculiarity.Their romantic devotional observances, and their admirable concertof purpose and action, met the eye at once. After the^e the strangerwas most struck, perhaps, by the strict order of march, the uncon-fused closing up to meet attack, the skilful securing of the cattle uponthe halt, the system with which the watches were set at night toguard them and the lines of corral—with other similar circumstancesindicative of the maintenance of a high state of discipline. Every tenof their waggons was under the care of a captain. This captain of ten,
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X Mormon Tabernacle Camp. as they termed him, obeyed a captain of fifty ; who, in turn, obeyedhis captain of a hundred, or directly a member of what they call theHigh Council of the Church. All these were responsible and deter-mined men, api)roved of by the people for their courage, discretion,and experience. So well recognised were the results of this organiza- 20:2 THE MORMONS. tion, that bands of hostile Indians have passed by comparative smallparties of Mormons, to attack much larger, but less compact bodies ofother emigrants. The most striking feature, however, of the Mormon emigration,was undoubtedly their formation of the Tabernacle Camps, and tem-porary Stakes, or Settlements, which renewed, in the sleeping soli-tudes everywhere along their road, the cheering signs of intelligentand hopeful life. I will make this remark jdainer by describing to you one of thesecamps, with the daily routine of its inhabitants. I select at random,for my purpose, a large camp upon the delta betwe

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