Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845

the same things coming upon us, dont you think I feel it? Yes I do feel it. And when men come to me and say that wants to curtail them in this and that I know their feelings. There is not a man who will stand up for your rights more than will and all of my brethren. They have been proven to be true in adversity & prosperity on the land & on the sea, and shall we not sustain these principles. Yes we will sustain them. This is my feelings. And it is my feelings for us to take a course where we can go to a healthy country and live, for I am sick all the day long, and I cannot live long unless God sustains me. But I dont want to go as did and and . They went contrary to council. They have said that this place would be destroyed and that we would not build the [p. [5]]