The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-15
p.miniscences of a Well
known Pioneer.
,5sp INCIDENTS AT NAUYOO.
ra.rors of dobocracy in the
Tee Fsrly Days of the Mormon
Church.
- 60. February "A, ISIS.

y saems to me that nttle more
- he SAID of Thomas Bullock, who
me- li.J and was buried this week. He was
we vsry prominent character in the early
sistory of this city.
Ai AZ d. not know the exact year when
omigrated to Nauvoo, but he was,
~ the remnant of its inhabitants
a abo we're driven out Of that city in
S "r 1876, as the following extract
-: letter written by him at Winter
o,s,ters now Florence, Neb., to Eng
81 near the close of 1s47, will show:
10 -on the 18th, 1000 men with 500
u,,gons, marched into the city but such
sling hooting, and bowling, never.
io.a from men, or even the wild
aovoges of the forest, land 1 have heard
and seen themD terror and sdismay
sr-slv for once -overcame the sick, the
Toor women and children. While they
T EeTe haranguing (God save the mark D
tba;r nah followers at the rope walk,
W. Hibbard's. such an awful and in.
sy-;otad noise I never heard, though
I was in Warsaw street. more than
. quarter of a mile off,. We
eynected that an indiscriminate mas
saere was commencing. | with others
Who we're sick we're carried into the tan
weeds and woods, while all who could
bid themselves; many crossed the river,
leaving everything behind. As night,
annroSched we returned to our SHELTER
but, Oh God, what night to remem-
THE next morning, at 9 o'clock, saw
me. my wife, my four children, my
sister.in-law, Fanny, my blind mother
in-law, all shaking with the ague in one
house; only George Wardle able to do
ANYTHING for US, when a band of about
thirty men, armed with guns and
bayonetts fixed, pistols in belt, the cap
tain with sword in lis hand, and the
stripes and stars flying about, marched
opposited my sheltering roof the captain
called halt, and demanded the owner
OF the two wagons to, be brought
out. 1 was raised from my
bed, led out of doors, supported
by sister-in-law and the rail fence. I
was then asked if those. goods were
mine, replied, they are The captain
then stepped out to within four feet of
me, pointing his sword at my throat,
while four others presented their guns
with their bayonets within two feet of
my breast, when the captain told me-:
'Hyou are not off from here in twenty.
minutes, my orders are to shoot YOU I
replied, Shoot away, for you will only
send me to heaven q few hours quicker
for you may see [ am not for this world
many hours longer The captain then
tOldme If you will renounce Nor
monism you may stay here, and
we will protect you. l replied,
This is not my house; yonder
IS my house pointing to it, which 1
built and paid for, with the gold that l
had earned in England. 1 never COM
mltted the least crime in Illinois, but |
am Mormon, and, if 1 live, 1 shall
follow the Twelve. Then, said the
captain, 4 am sorry to see you and
your sick family, but if you are not
gone when l return in half an hour,
my orders are to kill you and every
Mormon in the place. But oh, the
awful cursing and swearing that those
men did pour out; l tremble when I
think OF it, George and Edwin drove
my wagon down to the ferry, and
We're searched five times for fire arms
ttihey the mob took a pistol, and
though they promised to return it
% E / got across the river, i
nave not seen it to this day. While
on the banks of the river, l
cIaWled to the margin to bid a sister,
Tno was going down to st. Lous, Good
I'VE NMle there a mobber shouted
Sutl Look! Look there's a skeleton
;4suulng death good byep So you can
imagine ua the poor, sickly condition we
.On Wednesday, the 23d, while in nv
wagons, on the slough opposite Nauyoo,
most tremendous tbpnder shower
passed over, which drenched everything
b %e nau not dry thread left to us-zthe
IN d Pooi OF water, my wife and sister
IN Law odt ladlng it out by basinfuls, and I
III 81 burning fever and insensible, with
II. iuy mar shorn off to cure me, of my
70 Many had not a wagon orient
H. sheIter them from 1sthe pitiftrl
9'asL One case, L will u mention,
h. d poor woman stood among the
bpu us wrapping her cloak, around
81, shree little orphan children to
ouIelq and protect them from the snow
az q wen as she could, through that ter
.tOle nlght, which was one continued
Iga y OF thunder and blaze of lightniiigg,,
"a lilH the rain descended in torrents..,SIr
me mob seized every person, in
tlIauVOo that they could nduleading
o SlelA to the river and throwing taemiiff
SHe case will mention. THey seized
oaalles Lambert, and in the niids 81
.PSasIilg and swearing, one man said
o.S 4e holy Saints, l baptzeJ YOU; iby
~ Oh the commander of the temple,i
S w him backwards) and thef
eau em THE commandments must be fui.
b haze anu anu God d-n ySp,,,,(XQp mus
bis e another Dip (then threWj him OF
a s,a9 tqpel then sent him on the fiat boa
HES lhe river, with the promise that
Sboo. returned to Nauvoo they wonlS
tbo such were the scenes occurring a
- .1 irving OF the Saints from Nauyoo
d;d Inc Saints may inquire-of your
Ei iS nol they pay brother Bullock fol
IL. 'n5o lI turuItureT etc-ete 2-Y es;; on
80 9sA Of October three men gave hin
to oUu' amounting to two dollars seven
f oen ana half cents, because he va
aaa.lai.shtlng with hunger = not having
stp pSSeato, turnip, or an ounce of bread
d. d.. 70 make a cake; while they ha,
va i,el nm from a house, and q 10
he s9gu about seven hundred dollars
piSs Is ms tables chairs, furniture
ri H. cnlckens, and all he possessed
tima me worked at clerklng most bf ihi
Nlle. He Wak nIhrf- ~ ENsIln I'd u lei