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MILITARY ORGANIZATION. 105

ten, twenty, fifty, or one hundred. Thereupon these and others went out in various directions to raise men and means for a rchgio-mihtary expedition to Missouri. There were churches now in every direc- tion, and the brethren were scattered over a broad area.

Several appeals for redress were made by the saints at Independence to the governor of Missouri, and to the president of the United States. The president said it was a matter for the governor to regulate, and the governor did not see what could be done except through the courts. A court of inquiry was instituted, which decided, but to little pur'pose, that there was no insurrection on the 5th of Novem- ber, 1833, and therefore the arms taken by the militia from the Mormons on that occasion must be restored to them.^^ "And now a commandment I give unto you concerning Zion, that you shall no longer be bound as an united order to j^our brethren of Zion, only in this wise; after you are organized you shall be called the united order of this stake of Zion, the city of Shinehah,^^ and your brethren, after they are or- ganized, shall be called the united order of the city of Zion."

On the 7th of May, 1834, a military company was organized at Kirtland under the name of Zion's camp, consisting of one hundred and fifty brethren, mostly young men, elders, priests, teachers, and deacons, with

^* 'About this time a court of inquiry held at Liberty for the purpose of investigating the action of Col Pitcher, in connection with the expulsion of the saints from Jackson co., found sufficient evidence against that oUicer to result in his being placed in arrest for trial by court-martial. The plant of the printing-office was given by the citizens to Davis & Kelly, who removed it to Liberty, where they commenced the publication of a weekly paper called the Missoitii Enquirer. ' ' The citizens also paid $300 on the §1,001) note given by the elders to their lawyers, thus acknowledging their action had been wrong.' Times and Seasons, vi. 9G1. ' The governor also ordered them to re- store our arms which they had taken from us, but they never were rest'^red.' Pratt's Persecution, 52. See also Tayl 'ei-'s Mormons, xliii.-xlvi. ; Deseret Newa, Dec. 27, ISjl.and June 30, 18G0; Utah Tracts, no. 4, uG-G4; Millennial Star, XXV. 535-G, 550-2; Gunnison's Mormons, 104-14; Ferris' Utah and Mormons, 87-8.

■"* They 'called their Kirtland colony Shinahar.' Gunnison's Mormons, 1G7.