Heaven's Ditch

by Jack Kelly

  191.“There is a union”: Johnson, Shopkeeper’s, 134.

  191.“We are all becoming”: Stahr, 24.

  192.“at war with”: Masur, 94.

  194.“in his sanctum”: Turner, 31.

  194.“with whiskey, perfumed”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 311.

  194.“the angels are coming”: Turner, 46.

  194.“the Lord standing”: Ibid.

  196.“If I was to harbor”: Ibid., 51.

  197.“We were immediately”: Compton, 49.

  197.“To my utter astonishment”: Thompson.

  197.“They are Eastern men”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 327.

  198.“selling his lands”: Ibid., 348.

  198.“oppose his own”: Ibid., 353.

  199.“From this day and hour”: Ibid., 355.

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  202.“brigandish guise”: Sheriff, 145.

  202.“Commending my soul”: Shaw, 197.

  203.“We often passed”: Trollope, 244.

  203.“to hop down”: Shaw, 206.

  203.“every quarter”: Ibid., 209.

  205.“Iced-water (without sugar)”: Trollope, 231.

  205.“an interminable”: Koeppel, 391.

  205.“the air was so foul”: Shaw, 207.

  205.“whither dreams betake”: Koeppel, 392.

  206.“You are actually sailing”: McGreevy, 133.

  206.“so low that”: Shaw, 214.

  207.“full, strong, and”: Reiss, 42.

  207.“some of those cunning”: Ibid., 115.

  209.“the white circle of tents”: Whittier, 426.

  209.“a radical and an enthusiast”: Rowe, 160.

  210.“distinct in his utterance”: Ibid., 173.

  210.“You can have”: Ibid., 172.

  210.“disposed to make”: Ibid., 180.

  210.“convince him that”: Ibid., 138.

  211.“If you intend”: Barkun, 40.

  211.“an event scarcely”: Ibid., 98.

  211.“done us so much”: Knight, 146.

  211.“I am confirmed”: Numbers, The Disappointed, 46.

  212.“undefiled works”: McGreevy, 212.

  212.“It is written in the”: Abzug, 67.

  212.“such scenery is too”: Sheriff, 61.

  212.“beautiful from end”: Bourne, 132.

  212.“vulgar and worldly”: Koeppel, 392.

  212.“in time, the wondrous”: Ibid., 391.

  212.“Nature is fairly”: Bernstein, 282.

  212.“as Niagara Falls are”: Sheriff, 58.

  212.“every man moved”: Bourne, 133.

  212.“Pork and Flour coming”: Sheriff, 63.

  212.“The bowels of the nation”: Bourne, 161.

  213.“I think for us young”: Sheriff, 118.

  214.“loafing about the city”: Ibid., 147.

  214.“the Boys who Drive”: Ibid., 142.

  214.“they are only specimens”: Ibid., 150.

  214.“one continual stream”: Bernstein, 337.

  214.“than the negroes”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 357.

  215.“Lawlessness prevailed”: Ibid., 363.

  216.“the Mormons must”: Givens, 138.

  217.“about as badly scared”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 367.

  217.“I carried him into”: Newell, 75.

  218.“Dear Emma”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 381.

  218.“fanciful and flowe[r]y”: Ibid., 379.

  219.“was frank open & familiar”: Ibid., 382.

  219.“Build up a city”: Ibid.

  219.“so unhealthy”: Ibid., 384.

  220.“in the size of our canal”: Koeppel, 389.

  220.“the country’s first”: Ibid., 390.

  221.“No single act”: Ibid.

  221.“John the Baptist”: Abzug, 124.

  221.“my bearish proportions”: Ibid., 146.

  221.“his appearance”: Ibid., 151.

  222.“Abolition immediate”: Young, 179.

  222.“My heart aches”: Abzug, 85.

  223.“While I was at Lane”: Ibid., 95.

  223.“a proud, arrogant”: Ibid., 98.

  223.“Great economic and political”: Ibid., 112.

  223.“The pulpit is overawed”: Ibid., 121.

  223.“traitor to Christ”: Ibid., 116.

  224.“which side of the question”: Ibid., 107.

  224.“Madness rules the hour”: Ibid., 119.

  224.“better the mob”: Ibid., 121.

  224.“superior to every”: Ibid., 123.

  225.“immediate emancipation”: Muelder, 163.

  225.“thunderer of the West”: Abzug, 151.

  225.“A stump is my throne”: Ibid., 146.

  225.“If it is not FELT”: Ibid., 129.

  226.“almost shouted down”: McGreevy, 191.

  226.“the most mobbed man”: Sernett, 43.

  226.“a tall muscular man”: Barney.

  227.“disappointed, and chagrined”: Ibid.

  227.“as my dog”: Ibid.

  227.“I read in the Book”: Joseph Smith, “The Joseph Smith Papers, History.”

  229.“It may seem to some”: Marquardt, 319.

  229.“out of Nothing”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 421.

  229.“There is no such thing”: Ibid., 419.

  229.“request him to shake”: Doctrines and Covenants, Section 129.

  229.“The Father has a body”: Doctrines and Covenants, Section 130.

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  232.“I have placed my life”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 438.

  232.“Any man who will”: Newell, 96.

  232.“in the ordinary”: Ibid., 113.

  232.“a deep intricate”: Ibid., 120.

  233.“It was the first time”: Ibid., 98.

  233.“the Ancient order”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 452.

  233.“The Lord makes”: Newell, 114.

  233.“I thought you knew”: Ibid., 136.

  233.“my astonishment”: Brodie, 477.

  233.“It is a command”: Ibid., 478.

  234.“so contrary to all”: Compton, 499.

  234.“Happiness is the object”: Newell, 111.

  234.“hold your tongues”: Ibid., 115.

  234.“All who walk”: Ibid.

  234.“a woman of commanding”: Ibid., 150.

  235.“more bitter in her”: Ibid., 143.

  235.“but I have nothing”: Ibid., 145.

  235.“hereafter have peace”: Ibid., 151.

  235.“have ten virgins”: Ibid., 153.

  235.“How did you succeed”: Ibid., 152.

  235.“relinquish all”: Ibid., 158.

  235.“he had to use harsh”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 496.

  235.“yet Emma the wife”: Newell, 166.

  236.“bound to oppose”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 428.

  236.“too proud to court”: Ibid., 509.

  236.“Let us vote as kissing”: Turner, 82.

  236.“pretended Prophet”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 510.

  236.“Beware, oh earth”: Remini, 161.

  236.“should not be surprised”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 518.
/>   236.“where God and the”: Turner, 105.

  237.“The whole of America”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 519.

  237.“This year—O blessed”: Bliss, 174.

  238.“I could not but think”: Knight, 131.

  238.“Expectation with many”: Ibid., 130.

  238.“Never has my faith”: Rowe, 184.

  238.“I am still looking”: Bliss, 254.

  238.“We would not disguise”: Knight, 164.

  238.“I confess my”: Bliss, 256.

  239.“lecturing, Conferences”: Knight, 168.

  239.“Stones, pieces of bricks”: Abzug, 148.

  240.“as we made temperance”: Davis, 431.

  240.“a silly and often”: Hardman, 318–19.

  240.“Abolitionists are good”: Gospel Truth.

  241.“could not speak”: Abzug, 152.

  241.“We abolitionist women”: Muelder, 18.

  241.“For a long time”: Abzug, 188.

  241.“artificial and facetious”: Ibid., 166.

  241.“an actual reality”: Ibid., 196.

  242.“A great and mighty”: Ibid., 239.

  243.“There is a fighting”: Ibid., 202.

  243.“great suavity”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 528.

  244.“paralizes the nerves”: Ibid., 528.

  244.“was given when”: Beam, 98.

  244.“by preaching the spiritual”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 580.

  245.“God himself”: Joseph Smith, “King Follett Sermon, Part 1.”

  245.“You don’t know me”: Joseph Smith, “King Follett Sermon, Part 2.”

  245.“The Lord has constituted”: Brodie, 374.

  245.“she used to complain”: Newell, 161.

  246.“gross moral”: Newell, 181.

  246.“originally taught”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 539.

  246.“We are earnestly seeking”: Krakauer, 129.

  246.“a greater nuisance”: Beam, 9.

  246.“removed the press”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 540.

  246.“to exterminate”: Newell, 181.

  246.“was a very gross”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 545.

  247.“I have great fears”: Ibid., 546.

  247.“I have got all”: Beam, 127.

  247.“It is too late”: Knight, 187.

  247.“nothing but gross”: Ibid., 192.

  248.“God is an exact”: Ibid., 188.

  248.“worked like leaven”: Ibid., 189.

  248.“We are then within”: Ibid., 192.

  248.“this thing has gone”: Ibid., 202.

  248.“I see a glory”: Ibid., 203.

  248.“Oh, how I wish”: Ibid., 204.

  249.“a forsaking of the world”: Ibid.

  249.“This shop is closed”: Cross, 307.

  249.“help themselves”: Knight, 206.

  249.“many have suspended”: Ibid., 208.

  249.“formed themselves”: Nichol, 244.

  250.“We held meetings”: Rowe, 191.

  250.“we have just had”: Kobler, 106.

  250.“would have become”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 423.

  251.“Do not despair”: Newell, 186.

  251.“I want for you”: Ibid., 187.

  251.“tryed almost to death”: Ibid., 188.

  251.“Let us go back”: Beam, 153.

  252.“there is no danger”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 548.

  253.“The Danites”: Newell, 194.

  254.“I remember feeling”: Presidents of the Church.

  254.“Streams of fire”: Ibid.

  254.“O Lord, my God”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 550.

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  256.“Still in the cold”: Nichol, 248.

  256.“We wept and”: Ibid., 247.

  256.“If this had proved”: Ibid., 248.

  256.“My hope in”: Ibid., 266.

  256.“It seemed as”: Rowe, 193.

  257.“rising higher”: Numbers, Prophetess, 56.

  257.“he wanted to be”: Numbers, The Disappointed, 56.

  257.“I have fixed my mind”: Ibid., 33.

  258.“My husband”: Newell, 196.

  258.“trembled at every”: Ibid., 197.

  258.“Now I can see him”: Ibid., 197.

  258.“filled with horror”: Lucy Smith, 298.

  259.“Now Joseph is gon”: Turner, 111.

  259.“organization that you”: Ibid., 112.

  259.“it seemed in the eyes”: Ibid., 113.

  260.“I believe he was”: Newell, 25.

  260.“There is no country”: Kyle, 23.

  263.“I’ve got an old”: by Thomas S. Allen.

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