Identifier: americanaunivers15beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860- Scientific American, inc
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American compiling dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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entering Salt Lake Val-ley 24 July 1847; and 10 years later to the day.while he and his fellow citizens were celebratingthe advent of the pioneers, came, like a thunder-clap from a sunny sky, the startling news that aUnited States army was marching to Utah, toput down a Mormon uprising against the govern-ment. The alleged rebellion had no existence,the excitement and agitation over it being due tofalse reports circulated by Federal office-holdersand others who had left the Territory. Pend-ing an investigation, which he knew would proveto the government the falsity of the statementsby which it had been misled, and to prevent apossible repetition of the bloody scenes of Mis-souri and Illinois, Brigham Young, as governor,proclaimed Utah under martial law, calling outthe militia to repel the invasion. As a result theFederal army wintered east of the Wasatchmountains, and the next spring brought peacecommissioners from Washington and an ami-cable settlement of the difficulty. Governor Al-
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THE MOKMON TKMrLE, SALT LAKE CnV. UTAH fred Cumming, the non-Mormon successor toGovernor Young (whose second term nowclosed) was welcomed to Salt Lake City, andthe troops, under General A. S. Johnston, aug-menting materially the limited number of Gen-tiles then in these parts, founded Camp Floyd,40 miles southward, where they were stationeduntil the outbreak of the Civil War, when thepost was abandoned. An event of great importance to Utah wasthe coming of the Overland Telegraph Line,completed to Salt Lake City a few months afterthe beginning of the Civil War. The first mes-sage over the eastern wire was dated 18 Oct.1861. It said: Utah has not seceded, but is firmfor the Constitution and laws of our once happycountry, and is warmly interested in such use-ful enterprises as the one so far completed.This message was signed by Brigham Young,who, though no longer governor, continued to bethe first citizen of the commonwealth. It wasaddressed to President J. H. Wade, the tele-graph magnat

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