worse mortified and more enraged at us than any thing we could do. There is also a possibility of our selling to foreigners We have to have this matter done up before our enemies can prevent us.
Coun. said there are societies organised in the for the purpose of buying up property of this kind.
The said prophecied this morning that we would be enabled to sell our property and take all the poor with us. said Amen to it, “and then I believed it of course”.
related a dream he had of a woman being delivered of a child which was dead, and afterwards [p. [69]]
Richards recorded in his journal this day that as he, Young, and Kimball rode to the Seventies Hall to attend this council, “I prophesied that we would have means to move all the poor & want for nothing.— Kimball said amen.” Two days later the general conference of the church unanimously approved Young’s motion to “take all of the saints with us to the extent of our ability, that is, our influence & property.” (Richards, Journal, 4 Oct. 1845; Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6 Oct. 1845.)