Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-24
PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS,

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OF army in the western land
Expressly ordered Colonel Cooke,
The man who failure could not brook
70 open "abpn, 'v'u ,
MneIe HneJ'5 VII ,'v' '.''i 'iou'
Across that desert waste and sand
lie with stahnch ana IRON WIN.
he general orders 10 iulhh'
Must every nerve ana s'new s,Iaih
Tho stern, and cen at times morosc,
Strict sense OF Justice marked his course.
lie. as his predecessors, knew
The Mormon men were hrm and true.
They found road mak.ng worse by lar
Tried He'd by by The The way-whc Mt hey got thro
They'd very little more to do
Dare o ne, o%p py yb N Mormon 1oT" pluck
And off in all directions lied
No charge was hred-no blood was shed'
Our God who rules in worlds Of light.
Eon nitro ny ny wisdom ,,'a ana S G,d night
lie moves the nations at Ills will
ihe, des,lnlss OF men me. oerruIes.
The wise can I-y see and understand,
While fools ignore His guiding hand
Ere the Battalion started out
Upon that most important route,
ot,Ss Anos'i tea Ersba u We Yo tongue
Tito your God and country true.
your nave no lighting there to d.
Was General Kearney satisfied
yes yes; m NOR for be ni WIN martial pride
But these men crossed a continent"
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The conquest st" and nd The road we're made,
By which a ,hreat'nilng storm was STAYED,
anu ''' ''' 'A''''' o. you were saved
The above words, written as the
were by that illustrious and tuncd
woman, Eliza X. Snow Smith, d,
pict as well as English languac
can portray the duty discharged b
that noble band of heroic soul
the Mormon Battalion. Much HI
been said and written of then
but despite the fact and late as tn
day may seem an outline of Utah
history and her people would not
complete, were this company
dauntless Pioneers and their doing.
left untouched. For this reaso
then-that OF making a review ,
Utah and the Mormons more full
and giving unto all alike that whic
justly is their due-this sketch OF tn
Mormon Battalion is attempted.
Readers of Mormon history wi
remember no doubt the unrest Of tn
people OF God after the assassini
ton of their beloved Prophet an
Patriarch, Joseph and Hyrum Smitl
who we're shot to death at Carthag
Jail, Tune 27th. 1874. Dcspiscc
ridiculed and scolIcd at by lawle.
hordes Of masculine humanity, the
lives were made burden to then
albeit that they were an industriou
law-abiding, God.lcaring, lovab
people. They had made for then
selves humble vet comfortable hal
itations throughout the state Of Illil
ois and vicinity and had settled dow
that they might serve their Max,
by Welding to His dictates as r
vcaled to them through His serva
the Prophet Joseph. They h,
built mn the city of N,uvoo and su