| 162 have a being on the earth while heaven is pleased to lengthen out our days, are respectfully requested to publish this article. And men who wish to buy property very cheap to benefit themselves, and are willing to benefit us, are invited to call and look; and our prayer shall ever be that justice and judgment, mercy and truth, may be exalted, not only in our own land, but throughout the world, and the will of God be done on earth as it is done in heaven.
Done in council at the city of Nauvoo, on the twentieth day of January, 1846.
"SAMUEL BENT.
"JAMES ALLRED.
"GEORGE W. HARRIS.
"WILLIAM HUNTINGTON.
"HENRY G. SHERWOOD.
"ALPHEUS CUTLER.
"NEWEL KNIGHT.
"LEWIS D. WILSON.
"EZRA T. BENSON.
"DAVID FULMER.
"THOMAS GROVER.
"AARON JOHNSON."
-Times and Seasons, vol. 6, pp. 1096, 1097
The Times and Seasons of February 1, 1846, stated editorially as follows:-
"All things are in preparation for a commencement of the great move of the saints out of the United States, (we had like to have said, beyond the power of Christianity,) but we will soften the expression by merely saying, and back to their 'primitive possessions,' as in the enjoyment of Israel. It is reduced to a solemn reality that the rights and property, as well as the lives and common religious belief of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cannot be protected in the realms of the United States, and, of course, from one to two hundred thousand souls must quit their freedom among freemen, and go where the land, the elements, and the worship of God are free.
"About two thousand are ready and crossing the Mississippi to pioneer the way, and make arrangements for summer crops at some point between this and the 'Pacific.'
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