Heaven's Ditch

by Jack Kelly

  54.“Oh-a, Ho-a”: Ham, 296.

  54.“Our readers will recollect”: The Vermont Chronicle 6, no. 26 (June 24, 1831).

  55.“pretend to marry”: Barrus.

  55.“the marriage of the flesh”: Neal, 23.

  55.“It is not I that speak”: Ibid., 24.

  55.“They run about”: Morse, 7.

  55.“In admonition she was quick”: Burns, 32.

  56.“They have everything”: Ibid., 40.

  56.“The joys of the celibate”: Nordhoff, 160.

  56.“accompanied by a gentle”: Church of England Magazine 15, no. 414 (July 14, 1843).

  56.“with a sort of galvanized hop”: Morse, 156.

  57.“All appeared happy”: Ibid., 154.

  57.“in school houses”: Hambrick-Stowe, 35.

  58.“have gone down to hell”: Finney, Lectures, 2.

  58.“You have taken your stand”: Hambrick-Stowe, 36.

  58.“You admit that what”: Finney, Memoirs, 62.

  58.“The Spirit of God”: Hambrick-Stowe, 37.

  59.“A sinner under”: Ibid., 38.

  60.“Gospel salvation seemed”: Finney, Memoirs, 14.

  60.“like cannonballs”: William C. Martin, 40.

  60.“Oh, God, smite”: McLoughlin, 125.

  61.“feast of reason”: Rowe, 81.

  61.“The Bible is a system”: Ibid., 74.

  62.“the end of all things”: Ibid., 83.

  62.“I believe”: Ibid., 82.

  62.“a great favorite”: Brodie, 29.

  63.“glorious beyond description”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 61.

  63.“written upon gold plates”: Persuitte, 30.

  64.“The whole family were”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 76.

  64.“they would try to take”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 46.

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  66.“a swindler and a dangerous”: Weed, 216.

  66.“never saw men”: Stoler, 35.

  68.“There was danger”: Finney, Memoirs, 161.

  69.“men of the strongest”: Ibid., 163.

  69.“Ministers came in”: Ibid., 164.

  69.“Religion . . . was the principal”: Hardman, 73.

  69.“It is fanaticism”: Finney, Memoirs, 165.

  69.“That man is mad”: Ibid., 167.

  69.“I was obliged to preach”: Ibid., 168.

  69.“Go where you would”: Ibid., 171.

  70.“My meetings soon”: Ibid., 289.

  70.“I said ‘you’”: Ibid., 83.

  70.“is not plain-telling”: Hambrick-Stowe, 56.

  70.“descriptions of hell”: Sweet, 136.

  71.“levelling of all distinctions”: Sellers, 229.

  71.“that my flesh literally”: Finney, Memoirs, 193.

  71.“The next morning”: Ibid., 180.

  71.“I heard of several cases”: Ibid., 177.

  71.“sunk down, and burst”: Ibid., 183.

  72.“Good evening, we’ve”: Hardman, 89.

  73.“My father was a real”: Abzug, 47.

  73.“those great staring”: Ibid., 39.

  73.“I was so ashamed”: Ibid., 48.

  73.“his heart all broken”: Finney, Memoirs, 187.

  74.“put an end to my studying”: Hardman, 88.

  74.“It seemed to me like”: Koeppel, 320.

  75.“where large timber”: Ibid., 321.

  75.“plan to prevent their”: Ibid., 255.

  76.“No person without experience”: Way, Common Labour, 139.

  76.“Although great exertions”: Koeppel, 255.

  77.“wages on the canal”: Sheriff, 43.

  77.“I don’t know”: Mayo County Library.

  77.“several plates of brass”: Western Farmer 1, no. 27 (September 19, 1821).

  77.“fed with a Vain”: Taylor, 15.

  77.“who do in the simplicity”: Brodie, 18.

  78.“poor but credulous people”: Taylor, 22.

  78.“the MANIA of”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 212.

  79.“It proved not to”: Vogel, 458.

  79.“by which he could discern”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 48.

  79.“The heat of the sun”: Brooke, 31.

  79.“by some clever spirit”: Taylor, 11.

  79.“on account of enchantment”: Ibid., 13.

  80.“deluded beings would”: Ibid., 9.

  80.“become insolent and”: Ibid., 15.

  80.“Joseph can see any”: Ibid., 14.

  81.“a valuable mine”: Joseph Smith, “The Joseph Smith Papers, Appendix I.”

  82.“At the center of all”: Morison, 6.

  83.“would one day pass”: Shaw, 34.

  83.“Economy induced us”: Koeppel, 323.

  83.“I take the average”: Barnes, 8.

  84.“appears to be correct”: Koeppel, 324.

  86.“did not want to go”: Bernard, Appendix 1, 1.

  87.“most of whom were”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 28 (October 11, 1826).

  87.“are of a very strong”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 30 (October 25, 1826).

  88.“outrages and oppressions”: Geneva Gazette 17, no. 20 (October 18, 1826).

  88.“the said Morgan”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 38 (December 20, 1826).

  88.“several persons have been”: Ontario Repository 24. no. 40 (January 3, 1826).

  88.“unparalleled outrages upon”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 38 (December 20, 1826).

  89.“that if living”: Ibid.

  89.“We have bought the place”: Vogel, 315.

  89.“Oh, no matter”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 67.

  89.“The anxiety of mind”: Vogel, 321.

  90.“I did not feel so keenly”: Ibid.

  90.“fine looking, smart”: Newell, 18.

  90.“would be my choice”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 53.

  91.“a certain stone”: Persuitte, 41.

  91.“discovered that time”: Brooke, 152.

  91.“I had no intention of marrying”: Newell, 1.

  91.“Joseph’s wife was”: Brodie, 42.

  92.“They want me to look”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 54.

  93.“I have got a key”: Ibid., 59.

  93.“The money-diggers”: Brooke, 156.

  94.“my family will be placed”: Brodie, 416.

  94.“I do not wish to make myself a fool”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 62.

  95.“a man of very pleasant”: Koeppel, 250.

  97.“an ingenious and enterprising”: Ibid., 327.

  97.“Who can contemplate”: Shaw, 129.

  97.“prodigious violence”: Koeppel, 328.

  97.“see that no bad material”: Ibid.

  98.“In conversation”: Wyld, 40 x 8 x 4, 27.

  98.“the most stupendous”: Shaw, 130.

  98.“the grandest single”: Koeppel, 329.

  99.“so conducive to health”: Lender, 47.

  100.“was provided bountifully”: Koeppel, 350.

  100.“Along the line”: McGreevy, 78.

  100.“You wouldn’t expect”: Way, “Evil Humors,” 1414.

  100.“Fever, and death”: Ibid.

  100.“quarrel in their drink”: Muelder, 14.

 
101.“cold-water, pale-faced”: Johnson, Shopkeeper’s, 60.

  102.“The importance of”: Abzug, 46.

  102.“throw us back in civilization”: Hardman, 126.

  102.“a softness and delicacy”: Ibid., 127.

  102.“Illiterate men”: Hatch, 18.

  102.“his shocking blasphemies”: Hardman, 109.

  103.“Our spiritual dignity”: Finney, Memoirs, 213.

  104.“talking to God”: Hardman, 84.

  104.“lukewarmness in religion”: Hardman, 143.

  104.“meet you at the State”: Ibid., 144.

  104.“We crossed the mountains”: Ibid.

  106.“an art which”: Johnson, Sam Patch, 53.

  107.“He may now challenge”: Ibid., 124.

  107.“gentlemen who feel”: Ibid., 134.

  107.“like an army drawn”: Ibid., 153.

  108.“between a horse race”: Ibid., 158.

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  115.“I frequently wrote”: Waterman, 89.

  116.“should be forthcoming”: Morris.

  116.“would apper in Brite”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 72.

  116.“You must study”: Ibid., 73.

  117.“We experienced great”: Ibid., 75.

  117.“These days were never”: Ibid., 73.

  117.“Day after day”: Waterman, 89.

  118.“one of the most serious”: McGreevy, 32.

  119.“without consulting any one”: Koeppel, 332.

  120.“more like dog-kennels”: Way, Common Labour, 144.

  122.“respect there is paid”: McGreevy, 178.

  123.“at the peril of his life”: Weed, 213.

  124.“must have been over-zealous”: Ibid.

  124.“the vultures of Masonry”: Haigh, 14.

  124.“the horrors of suspense”: Formisano, 118.

  125.“for the purpose of giving”: Haigh, 4.

  127.“entirely alone”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 79.

  128.“I command you”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 106.

  128.“I beheld with my eyes”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 78.

  128.“’Tis enough”: Ibid., 78.

  128.“relieved of a burden”: Ibid., 79.

  129.“stout, round, smooth-faced”: Weed, 358.

  130.“spindle shanked ignoramus”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 120.

  130.“the greatest fraud”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 82.

  130.“it partakes largely”: Ibid., 112.

  132.“more difficult to remove”: McGreevy, 52.

  132.“The explosions (cannonading)”: Ibid., 55.

  133.“One stone weighing”: Ibid., 80.

  133.“on some days the list”: Ibid., 81.

  133.“the rough perpendicular”: Riley, 52.

  134.“retain all the advantages”: Morone, 200.

  134.“freeborn Yankees”: Sheriff, 40.

  134.“extraordinary kind of artillery”: Koeppel, 362.

  135.“a work of the first magnitude”: Ibid., 334.

  135.“strikes the traveler”: McGreevy, 134.

  135.“The last barrier is past”: Ibid., 112.

  135.“I was more astonished”: Sheriff, 31.

  135.“September 24th”: The Orleans Whig 1, no. 15 (October 10, 1827).

  136.“No feature of it was”: Weed, 315.

  136.“no doubt but”: Ibid.

  136.“People left their busy”: Rochester Daily Advertiser 2, no. 305 (October 19, 1827).

  137.“the contradiction”: Weed, 318.

  137.“That is a good enough”: Van Deusen, 41.

  138.“There is no blood”: Ibid., 48.

  138.“Public opinion is”: Bernard, 487.

  139.“This Institution”: Ibid., 430.

  139.“dark, unfruitful”: Ibid., x.

  140.“strong feeling”: Ibid., xvii.

  140.“What great moral”: Ibid., 476.

  143.“chloroform in print”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 84.

  143.“He could never tell”: Brodie, 26.

  143.“infant baptism, ordination”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 89.

  144.“every error”: Ibid., 90.

  144.“It was a young city”: Finney, Memoirs, 297.

  144.“one of the wonders”: Bernstein, 273.

  145.“dignity and majesty”: Hambrick-Stowe, 109.

  146.“When the bubbling”: Weed, 357.

  146.“encouraged that soul”: McKelvey, 40.

  146.“Rochester was the place”: Finney, Memoirs, 286.

  146.“the duty to publish”: Numbers, The Disappointed, 21.

  147.“texts would occur”: Rowe, 83.

  147.“I told the Lord”: Ibid., 84.

  147.“any practice”: Ibid., 94.

  147.“a few Evidences”: Ibid., 96

  148.“began to speak”: Bliss, 83.

  148.“We are a visionary house”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 113.

  148.“I have lived to see”: Ibid., 110.

  149.“Criticism, . . . even by”: Ibid., 296.

  149.“a seer, a translator”: Ibid., 130.

  150.“setting the country”: Ibid., 117.

  150.“Let thy soul delight”: Newell, 33.

  151.“alter or erase”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 120.

  151.“ his countenance change”: Newell, 32.

  151.“Brother Joseph”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 121.

  153.“into the burning depths”: Sernett, 17.

  153.“some measure that”: Finney, Memoirs, 288.

  154.“All Rochester was moved”: Hardman, 210.

  154.“The revival took”: Finney, Memoirs, 293.

  155.“lady of high standing”: Ibid., 287.

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  158.“by the use of accurate”: Koeppel, 367.

  159.“by laborious industry”: Ibid., 366.

  159.“coarse epithets”: Ibid., 372.

  160.“this great work”: Monticello.

  160.“marks a new era”: Koeppel, 373.

  160.“in a manner suited”: Ibid., 378.

  160.“smile most propitiously”: Ibid., 378–79.

  161.“I always loved”: Givens, 15.

  161.“the serene and penetrating”: Ibid., 88.

  162.“the people stood”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 124.

  162.“We began to talk”: Hatch, 188.

  163.“treated a laborer”: Ibid., 121.

  163.“Hear my voice”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 125.

  163.“Simultaneously hundreds”: Hardman, 209.

  164.“the divided self”: James, 185.

  164.“All sin consists”: McLoughlin, 128.

  164.“was the greatest work”: Hamrick-Stowe, 113.

  164.“nation after nation”: Morone, 128.

  165.“Why do we call”: Johnson, Sam Patch, 179.

  166.“Whether in exercise”: Abzug, 61.

  166.“universal insecurity”: Ibid., 58.

  167.“If the church will”: Hardman, 152.

  167.“There is an increasing”: Rowe, 103.

  168.“I sometimes feel”: Ibid., 100.

  169.“See, . . . see, the angel”: Ibid., 109.


  169.“It will start”: Ibid.

  170.“No time should be lost”: Numbers, The Disappointed, 39.

  170.“What can an old farmer”: Ibid., 27.

  171.“Newel K. Whitney”: Newell, 38.

  171.“native cheery Temperament”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 141.

  171.“spirit of lightness”: Ibid., 170.

  172.“I have never seen”: Newell, 217.

  174.“an account of his marvilous”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 234.

  174.“rallying signals”: Adams, 288.

  174.“Antimasonry is bottomed”: Goodman, 54.

  175.“darkest and deepest”: Ibid., 57.

  175.“Why are six hundred”: Bernard, 495.

  175.“Damn him”: Adams, 186.

  176.“Morgan’s abductors”: Stoler, 37.

  176.“bound, hoodwinked”: Brown, 43.

  179.“The waters of salvation”: Hambrick-Stowe, 213.

  180.“the whole orthodox”: Johnson, Shopkeeper’s, 110.

  180.“is either gathering”: Hardman, 281.

  180.“the ecstasy of sanctimony”: Roth, 2.

  180.“triflers and blasphemers”: Sellers, 230.

  181.“I don’t give”: Johnson, Shopkeeper’s, 121.

  181.“Once get that region”: Hambrick-Stowe, 116.

  182.“to renounce themselves”: Finney, Memoirs, 215.

  182.“Measures adopted here”: Hambrick-Stowe, 129.

  183.“The City is in great”: Ibid., 138.

  183.“divert the attention”: Ibid., 142.

  183.“most dangerous”: Ibid., 143.

  184.“truly great and wonderful”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 189.

  185.“the time had not yet”: Newell, 65.

  185.“I was the first”: Ibid.

  185.“tampering with our slaves”: Ibid., 49.

  186.“break down the walls”: Abanes, 118.

  187.“The religious tenets”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 328.

  187.“Are you not ashamed”: Ibid., 171.

  187.“His language and manner”: Ibid., 231.

  187.“he was a quear man”: Newell, 57.

  187.“On shaking hands”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 231.

  188.“a varry nice & Comly”: Newell, 66.

  188.“by no means a paternal”: Compton, 34.

  189.“a dirty, nasty, filthy”: Newell, 66.

  189.“of the old-fashioned”: Larkin, 40.

  191.“race of non-producers”: Schlesinger, 152.