This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...the lion in his den; for by this time one of the best-equipped and best-drilled militia regiments undfler the name of the Nauvoo Legion had been organised, and Joseph had been elected Lieutenant-General. The regiment consisted solely of well-tried Mormons who were devotedly attached to their leader; besides which, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...the lion in his den; for by this time one of the best-equipped and best-drilled militia regiments undfler the name of the Nauvoo Legion had been organised, and Joseph had been elected Lieutenant-General. The regiment consisted solely of well-tried Mormons who were devotedly attached to their leader; besides which, the whole of the population of the city was at his call at a moment's notice. Into the city of the Saints, as far as was possible to prevent it, no Gentile was allowed to intrude. It was at risk of life and property that any one ventured. One oddly original mode of driving out the devoted stranger is worthy of mention--it was called "whittling a man out of the town!" Opposite the victim's door a number of men and overgrown boys would take up their quarters--each armed with a stout stick of wood and a huge knife. No sooner did the Gentile appear than the whole horde gathered in a circle round him. Not a word was uttered, but each man grasping firmly his stick in THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH. 307 his left hand, pointed its other end to within a few inches of the victim's face, while with the knife in his right hand he sliced a shaving out of the wood in such a way as to bring the point of the knife almost against the face of the unfortunate man. Wherever he turned they attended him, always preserving the strictest silence, and never actually touching him. The intolerable sensation caused by the " whittling" of this strange body-guard--who were in attendance day and night--and the unpleasantness of seeing half a score of sharp knives flashing perpetually within an inch ot his nose generally subdued the strongest-minded Gentile--few could endure it for more than a day or so at the utmost: they were glad to leave--" Whi...
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