By Matthew J. Grow

Until eventually his demise in 1877, Brigham younger guided the non secular, financial, and political lifetime of the Mormon group, whose settlements unfold in the course of the West and provoked a profound political, felony, or even army war of words with the yank state. younger first met Thomas L. Kane at the plains of western Iowa in 1846. younger got here to depend on Kane, 21 years his junior, as his so much depended on outdoor adviser, making Kane crucial non-Mormon within the heritage of the Church. In go back, nobody motivated the path of Kane's lifestyles greater than younger. The letters exchanged by way of the 2 supply an important insights into Young's own existence and perspectives in addition to his activities as a political and non secular chief. The Prophet and the Reformer deals an entire replica of the surviving letters among the Mormon prophet and the Philadelphia reformer. The correspondence unearths the innovations of the Latter-day Saints in in terms of American tradition and govt in the course of those an important years while the "Mormon query" was once an important political, cultural, and felony factor. The letters additionally shed very important gentle at the mostly forgotten "Utah struggle" of 1857-58, prompted whilst President James Buchanan dispatched an army excursion to make sure federal supremacy in Utah and change younger with a non-Mormon governor.

This annotated selection of their correspondence finds greatly approximately those notable males, whereas additionally delivering an important perception into nineteenth-century Mormonism and the historic second within which the circulation constructed.

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S. 2 Kane understood that the Mormon case would be decided by public opinion. During the last months of 1846, as detailed in the following letter, 1.  Kane to Willard Richards, October 26, 1846, CHL. 2. Orson Spencer to Young, November 26, 1846, BYOF; Kane to Young, July 11, 1850. Kane claimed to have prepared a memorandum detailing the Polk administration’s maneuvers and promised the Mormons a copy in case of his death. Also see Kenney, Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, entries for November 25–26, 1849, 3: 513–515.

Thousands of Mormon converts, both from the United States and Europe, migrated annually to Utah and the surrounding regions. The question of the relationship between the Latter-day Saints and the nation, however, had not been settled. From one perspective, the efforts of Young and Kane had failed: Utah was still a territory, Mormons were still the nation’s most reviled religious group, and controversy over Mormonism’s polygamy and theocratic ambitions remained a leading national issue. Nevertheless, the collaboration between Young and Kane had ensured that the resolution to the “Mormon Question” would entail a series of political, legal, and religious compromises, rather than a military confrontation.

Young to Kane, August 2, 1846 17 Kane soon regained his balance. While his “selfish” dream of becoming “the man of the Western West” was now gone, he wrote his father that he could still be useful by helping enroll the Mormon troops, and perhaps by easing the Mormons’ anger over how they had been treated and strengthening their loyalty. Rumors were circulating that the Saints were secretly negotiating with the British over a possible British–Mormon colony on Vancouver’s Island in Canada, which might muddle American claims to the Pacific Northwest.

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