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

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you favor us by your personal influence, and by your official rank?

Or, will you express your views concerning what is called the Great Western Measure, of colonizing the Latter Day Saints in , the North western Territory, or some location, remote from the states, where the hand of oppression shall not crush every noble principle, and extinguish every patriotic feeling?

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And now, Hon. Sir, having reached out our imploring hands to you with deep solemnity, we would importune with you as a father, a friend, a patriot and statesman; by the constitution of American liberty;— by the blood of our fathers, who have fought for the independance of this :— by the blood of the martyrs which has been shed in our midst; by the wailings of the widows and [p. [118]]

you favor us by your personal influence, and by your official rank?

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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
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1. 179
  Possibly a reference to William P. Richards’s proposal, which was published in the Nauvoo Neighbor under the title “Great Western Move.” However, this proposal was not broadly reported on or reprinted in either regional or national newspapers, so it is unlikely that the recipients would have been familiar with this reference. (“Great Western Move,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 26 Feb. 1845, [1].)
  
  Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
2. 180
  Governor Thomas Drew of Arkansas, a Democrat, was apparently the only governor who sent a written response to this letter. In a letter to Brigham Young, Drew noted the precarious situation of the Latter-day Saints, adding, “I therefore heartily agree with you in the proposed plan of emigration to the Oregon Territory—or to California—the North of Texas or to Nebraska; thereby placing your community beyond the reach of contention until, at last, you shall have had time and opportunity to test the practicability of your system, and to develope its contemplated supiror [superior] advantages in amiliorating the condition of the human race and adding to the blessings of civil and religious liberty. . . . Should the Latter-day Saints migrate to Oregon they will carry with them the good will of philathropists and the blessings of every friend of humanity.” (Thomas Drew, Little Rock, AR, to Brigham Young, Nauvoo, IL, 27 May 1845, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL.)
  
  Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.

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

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