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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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do to reject it. They have spilt the blood of our prophets and sought to kill us off that there should not be one left to tell the tale. If you go from the highest officer of the
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North American constitutional republic. Constitution ratified, 17 Sept. 1787. Population in 1805 about 6,000,000; in 1830 about 13,000,000; and in 1844 about 20,000,000. Louisiana Purchase, 1803, doubled size of U.S. Consisted of seventeen states at time ...

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to the lowest citizen the answer would be “destroy Mormonism” from the face of the earth, and I have yet to learn whether there was not a combination from the Legislatures Legislators to the lickskittles
85

Likely a term meaning lowly individuals. The similar contemporary terms “lickskillet” and “lickspittle” referred to contemptible individuals or parasites. (“Lickskillet,” in Green, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, 1368; “Lickspittle,” in Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, 2:15; see also, for example, Stephen Burnett, Orange Township, OH, to Lyman Johnson, 15 Apr. 1838, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 65.)


Comprehensive Works Cited

Green, Jonathan. Green’s Dictionary of Slang. 3 vols. London: Chambers, 2010.

A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinkers’ Jargon, and Other Irregular Phraseology. Edited by Albert Barrere and Charles G. Leland. 2 vols. [London]: Ballantyne, 1889–1890.

to destroy the prophets. The scriptures tell us that the times of the gentiles should be fulfilled and at that time the Lord would turn to his people, and “then I the Lord will gather them and plant them in their own land and they shall no more be plucked up”.
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See Jeremiah 24:6; 42:10; and Amos 9:14–15.


This day we have one of them in our midst to carry the tidings to them. In a little while—when the nations are agitating themselves with strife the powers that be will rise up against themselves, and the slaves will rise up against their masters, and then will the red men [p. [56]]
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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
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  1. [85]

    Likely a term meaning lowly individuals. The similar contemporary terms “lickskillet” and “lickspittle” referred to contemptible individuals or parasites. (“Lickskillet,” in Green, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, 1368; “Lickspittle,” in Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, 2:15; see also, for example, Stephen Burnett, Orange Township, OH, to Lyman Johnson, 15 Apr. 1838, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 65.)

    Green, Jonathan. Green’s Dictionary of Slang. 3 vols. London: Chambers, 2010.

    A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinkers’ Jargon, and Other Irregular Phraseology. Edited by Albert Barrere and Charles G. Leland. 2 vols. [London]: Ballantyne, 1889–1890.

  2. [86]

    See Jeremiah 24:6; 42:10; and Amos 9:14–15.

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