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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
1 March 1845 • Saturday, continued Page 1 4 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 32 11 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 77 18 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 131 22 March 1845 • Saturday Page 181 25 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 231 5 April 1845 • Saturday Page 266 11 April 1845 • Friday Page 267 15 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 327 22 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 349 29 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 355 6 May 1845 • Tuesday Page 361
Source Note
See source note under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
Historical Introduction
See historical introduction under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
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a dozen. The great idea is to go out into the mountains and let the hunters of Israel go with good rifles and they will pick the game every time. Here is one of the men to go, and we want him to go and tell them to prepare, for our enemies are forging chains for us. As to a location, there are many good places There is an excellent place on what is called the Camet
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TEXT: Possibly “Carnet”.
river, and another on the
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Phelps was probably talking about the Klamath River (generally spelled Klamet at this time) in Oregon and the mouth of the Colorado River in the Gulf of California. In his April 1844 letters to JS, Orson Hyde sketched out the route from Nauvoo to the “Um[p]qua and Clamet valleys in Oregon bordering on California.” At the 18 March 1845 meeting, the council discussed the Gulf of California as a potential gathering place; Brigham Young stated that “it was Josephs mind that the head of California Bay was the place for us.” (Letters from Orson Hyde, 25 and 26 Apr. 1844; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 18 Mar. 1845.)
I am not going to say how many years it is going to take for we have got to go through the last gap. He here related an anecdote of an Eagle
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TEXT: Possibly “Eagles”.
and an Owl and compared this generation to the Owl for they are “mousing”, they live by it.
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Probably a reference to Macbeth: “On Tuesday last, / A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at, and kill’d.” When quoting this line, antebellum Americans sometimes replaced the falcon with an eagle. In the play, the birds are a supernatural sign that nature is out of balance, with a lesser bird triumphing over a greater one. Phelps was likely making a comparison between a majestic eagle and a mousing owl, arguing that it would be unnatural for the former to yield to the latter. (Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 2, sc. 4, ll. 11–13, in Riverside Shakespeare, 1370; see, for example, Speech of Mr. Burges, of Rhode Island, 24; and Washington DC, 28 Dec. 1834, Letter to the Editor, Boston Courier, 1 Jan. 1835, [2].)
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The Riverside Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, J. J. M. Tobin, Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Harry Levin, Hallett Smith, and Marie Edel. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Speech of Mr. Burges, of Rhode Island, on the Motion to Strike from the General Appropriation Bill the Salary Appropriated for the Minister to Russia. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 3, 1831. Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1831.
Boston Courier. Boston. 1824–before 1855.
I dont know any good reason why the religion of Jesus Christ should be blown out of existance to accommodate mobbers. With regard to the company that are going it will not do to tell them they are going to walk [p. [58]]
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TEXT: Possibly “Carnet”.
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Phelps was probably talking about the Klamath River (generally spelled Klamet at this time) in Oregon and the mouth of the Colorado River in the Gulf of California. In his April 1844 letters to JS, Orson Hyde sketched out the route from Nauvoo to the “Um[p]qua and Clamet valleys in Oregon bordering on California.” At the 18 March 1845 meeting, the council discussed the Gulf of California as a potential gathering place; Brigham Young stated that “it was Josephs mind that the head of California Bay was the place for us.” (Letters from Orson Hyde, 25 and 26 Apr. 1844; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 18 Mar. 1845.)
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TEXT: Possibly “Eagles”.
[92]
Probably a reference to Macbeth: “On Tuesday last, / A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at, and kill’d.” When quoting this line, antebellum Americans sometimes replaced the falcon with an eagle. In the play, the birds are a supernatural sign that nature is out of balance, with a lesser bird triumphing over a greater one. Phelps was likely making a comparison between a majestic eagle and a mousing owl, arguing that it would be unnatural for the former to yield to the latter. (Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 2, sc. 4, ll. 11–13, in Riverside Shakespeare, 1370; see, for example, Speech of Mr. Burges, of Rhode Island, 24; and Washington DC, 28 Dec. 1834, Letter to the Editor, Boston Courier, 1 Jan. 1835, [2].)
The Riverside Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, J. J. M. Tobin, Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Harry Levin, Hallett Smith, and Marie Edel. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Speech of Mr. Burges, of Rhode Island, on the Motion to Strike from the General Appropriation Bill the Salary Appropriated for the Minister to Russia. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 3, 1831. Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1831.
Boston Courier. Boston. 1824–before 1855.