freedom, and their freedom is what we want to accomplish.
The said if we were to come under the British Government we would not last forty eight hours, and he wants nothing to do with them.
said our object is to effect an effect an union amongst the tribes and when the blow is to be struck, and our object is accomplished in effecting the union, the enemy will be scattered and they will leave us arms & ammunition enough.
said when he looks at that picture (referring to the picture of the martyrdom of Joseph & in , which hung suspended in the East end of the ) he thinks there is already fire enough, and there is ammunition enough in [p. [301]]
Nauvoo resident Philo Dibble had commissioned a panorama painting of the murders of JS and Hyrum Smith that was then on display, along with other paintings, at the Masonic hall. The 128-square-foot painting was primarily done by Robert Campbell and William W. Major, with assistance from others. The night before this council meeting, Hosea Stout visited the Masonic hall “to see an exibition of the scenery of the murder of Brs Joseph & Hyrum at Carthage also of Jesus raising Lazarus and other like Paintings it was an entertaining display of art.” The painting of the murder of the Smiths, which is no longer extant, was later displayed in Kanesville, Iowa, and in territorial Utah. (Stout, Journal, 7 Mar. and 10 Apr. 1845; Philo Dibble, “Brother Philo Dibble’s Sceneries, Museum, &c.,” LDS Millennial Star, 1 Jan. 1849, 11:11–12; see also “Painting,” and “Fine Arts,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 16 Apr. 1845, [2]–[3]; and Carmack, “Philo Dibble’s Museum and Panorama,” 25–38.)
Stout, Hosea. Journal, Oct. 1844–May 1845. CHL. MS 1910.
Carmack, Noel A. “‘One of the Most Interesting Seeneries That Can Be Found in Zion’: Philo Dibble’s Museum and Panorama.” Nauvoo Journal 9, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 25–38.