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Nauvoo
Legion member Henson Walker was concerned for Joseph and Hyrum’s safety when
they left for Carthage in June 1844. He felt that they should be sent with a guard, when he was told that they were "beyond the reach of the mobs". How did
he learn this?
a.
Brigham Young
told him this
b.
He was told this
in a dream
c.
An angel told him
this
d.
Porter Rockwell told
him this
Yesterday’s answer:
b. 3 weeks
However,
Governor Dawson [ 3rd Governor of Utah] was not destined to be in
the territory when the convention was held. It soon became know that he had
“made indecent proposals to a respectable lady of the City, and fearing
chastisement at the hands of her relatives or friends, he hastily departed, on
the afternoon of the last day of 1861, for his home in Indiana.” But, upon his
arrival at Hanks’ mail station at Mountain Dell, between Little and Big
Mountains, he was robbed, assaulted, and beaten to exhaustion by a gang of
ruffians. One of them is said to have been related to the lady to whom Governor
Dawson had made his advances. His other assailants were merely drunken
desperadoes and robbers, who were soon afterwards arrested for their cowardly
and brutal assault. Their tragic deaths while attempting to escape from
officers of the law were not much regretted by the community.
So ended twenty-one days of governmental
rule by one appointed to administer justice: but because he apparently lacked
in judgment and discretion for his positon, the growing disappointment of the
inhabitants of the territory with the form of rule became more manifest as time
went on.
Chronicles of Courage, Lesson Committee (Salt Lake City: Talon Printing,
1996) Vol. 7,108.
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