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[Brigham Young]

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  • Title: [Brigham Young]
  • Date: 19 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00947
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 19 March 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[Brigham Young]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00947.xml (TEI)
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☞Brigham Young,1 in a recent sermon, declared that the Lord had revealed to him that the army would starve next year, and that no reinforcements could be sent, as every blade of grass in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri should perish.

Notes:

1. Brigham Young (1801–1877) was the second president of the Church of Latter-day Saints in 1847. He would then lead the Mormons to Utah, where he founded Salt Lake City. [back]

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