h to make
a settlement, and leave the poor, or rather those who had no
teams to go on with. I was unwilling to start with a part of my
family, leaving the rest behind, and thought that now was the
time to get them out before worse trouble commenced. I went into
Brigham's tent and told him what I thought of the matter, and
that I could fit up teams in a few days and bring them all away.
He replied that he had been thinking of the same thing. Said he:

"Go; I will give you five days in which to sell out and cross the
river again, and bring me one hundred dollars in gold."

My first wife was still at Nauvoo. I had the confidence of my
family, as I never undertook anything that I did not carry out. I
started back on foot and crossed the river on the ice. I fell in
with acquaintances about La Harpe, who were in trouble over a
number of wagons and teams which they had purchased in the State.
The devil was to pay generally. Some of the Gentiles who had lost
cattle laid it to the Mormons in Nauvoo, and were determined to
take cattle from the Mormons until they got even. I had a brick
house and lot on Parley street that I sold for three hundred
dollars in teams. I told the purchaser that I would take seven
wagons and teams, and before I went to sleep that night I had my
entire outfit of teams.

For my large house, costing eight thousand dollars (in Salt Lake
City it would have been worth fifty thousand dollars), I was
offered eight hundred dollars. My fanaticism would not allow me
to take so meager a sum for it. I locked it up, selling only one
stove out of it, for which I received eight yards of cloth. The
building, with its twenty-seven rooms, I turned over to the
committee, to be sold to help the poor away. The committee
afterwards parted with the house for twelve dollars and fifty
cents.

One day I was sitting with my family, telling them that I ought
to get five hundred dollars in some way, but the Lord had opened
no way by which I could get it, and I had but five days to get
out of Nauvoo. In an adjoining room was an old gentleman and his
daughter who rented the room of me. They were from Pennsylvania,
and the old gentleman was wealthy. The daughter stepped into her
father's room, and soon returned, saying that he wished to see
me. I went into his room. He gave me a seat and said:

"You did me a kindness that I have not repaid. Do you remember
meeting me, when coming from the Temple? I had been there with my
wife