The moral question here involved was to him of deep importance.
"If it was only for self-defence, Angel--" she began.
He shook his head.

"Nay, it was a fierce temptation, and our people are not yet sanctified, but God in his great mercy withheld them from sinning against him.

For they had no sooner obtained arms than Lilburn Boggs, the Lieutenant-Governor, came and disarmed them." "And then ?" "Our people were driven from their homes.

In the cold storms of November, women and little children and wounded men were forced to flee out upon the open prairie, and up and down the banks of the Missouri River.

At last they gathered together on the river-side, and many of them have now crossed it, remaining in the opposite county, and the others have dispersed, poor and homeless, into less unfriendly parts of the State.