[Hosea Stout Diary] Sunday Dec 3rd 1848. Fine pleasant morning. Went to meeting which was occupied by the Clerk reading news from the States untill 3 oclock. The minutes of the Conference on 6th of Oct at the Bluffs were read which shows all things to be in a moust prosperous & flourishing situation. Crops of all kinds had yielded an abundance & a general state of good health prevailed among the saints and amongst them since we left they had universal peace & good order.
In a letter from George A. Smith we learn that on the 4th of July last the people of Nauvoo borrowed a cannon from Carthage to celebrate the day & that night it left & was only tracked to the river where no doubt it passed through the cerimonies of immersion & he thought it would be wending its way west in search of new adventures. Also that the renowned Mobecratic Editor Thomas C. Sharp was now a ferryman at Warsaw. Also that there were now five Candidates out for the Presidency and among the rest was Martin Van Buren who came out at the head of a new party cald the "Free Soil" party or Barn Burners" which is composed of all the apostate poleticians of both parties, abolitionists &c and that he was likely to run a good poll to be elected. Their motto is to Burn the Barn and drive the rats out &c"
Matty will well grace their head.
Also that Pottewattamie County was organized and at the Election they went the Whig ticket which greatly engrage the democrats who said that Hyde had been bribed by the Whigs & both Hyde & the Whigs denies it. That Ebenezer C. Richerson while returning from the election held at the Raccoon Fork stole an old mare & was followed overtaken & shot through the body the horse retaken & he left supposed to be mortally wounded but had recovered.
A Proclamation was read from Lyman Wight & Bishop George Miller, Calling on all the people to geather to them on the Rio Colerado about 75 miles from Austin Texas. It is a long document & contains some foul insinuations against the Twelve. It breaths a dishonest, low, and mean, Spirit and was recieved as such by the saints both here & at the Bluffs
Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmore & W. E. Mc[.] Lelland were trying to raise up the kingdom again. also William Smith. But the "Sound of their grinding is low"They are all waiting for the Twelve & Presidncy to fall.
After the news was read the case of Lyman [Wight] was taken up and he & all who were with him were cut off from the church as the Saints at the Bluffs also done at the conference.
In the evening I went to the Council. Savage & Snedeker had a case up.& Br Lawson tried to get a rehearing on a case against him for killing a cow but could not. The president explained the object of the exploring expidition now being raise. which was to look out a good place to locate a settlement on the gulf & California & a road from thence to this place. Hard snow this evening.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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