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Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rned like tinder. There wasno mode of reaching the fire, and intwenty minutes the whole wooden in- ORiniN AND GROWTH OF THE MORMONS. 47 terior was a mass of flames. In twohours nothing remained but hot wallsenclosing a bed of embers. Afterwardsa man residing fourteen miles distantconfessed that heset it on fire. Hehad suffered at thehands of the Mor-mons and swore notrace of them shouldcumber the soil ofIllinois. Meanwhile pio-neers had been de-spatched to theGreat Salt Lakevalley, Utah, and,their report prov-ing favorable, alarge body of emi-grants was marchedwith military disci-pline across the wil-derness to the val-ley, where they im-mediately proceed-ed to found SaltLake City, andwhere on Jtily 24,1847, they werejoined by theirchief, BrighamYoung. In theMay following themain body of thesaints set out torejoin their breth-ren, and in the au-tumn of that year a barren wilderness into a fertile andblooming garden. An emigration fund was organize^,missionaries were sent out, and soon
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reached Salt Lake City. Large tractsof land were at once put under cultiva-tion, a great city sprang up as bymagic, and the untiring industry, en-ergy, and z-^al of the emig?nts turned JOE SMITH KILLED BY A MOB OF INDIGNANT CITIZENS,settlers began to pour in from all quar-ters of the globe, particularly fromGreat Britain, Sweden and Norway, andin less numbers from Germany, Swit-zerland and France. Strangely enough. 48 ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE MOR^TONS. and the fact deserves emphasis, Irelandhas furnished few if any recruits to thecause of Mormonisni, In March, 1849,a convention was held at Salt LakeCity, and a State was organized underthe name of Deseret, meaning theland of the honey-bee. A legislature was also elected, and aconstitution framed, which was sent onto Washington. This Congress refused10 recognize, and by way of compromisefor declining to admit the proposed newState into the Union, President Fill-more in 1850 organized the country oc-cupied by the Mormons into the Terri-t

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