Brother Carrington read a Letter to us From Capt Hooper who said "This union will be disolved within 18 month." He also read the message of the Govornor of Missippi whos recommendation to his state is that they Call a state Convention and Call upon all the Slave holding State to Form a Southern Union and seced from the North if their was a Republican President Elected in the United States.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Capt. Hooper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Hooper was the Utah Territorial delegate to Congress at this time and he was spot-on on his prediction. Mississippi became the 2nd state to secede from the Union on Jan.9,1861, the 1st state seceding being South Carolina on Dec.20,1860. It was only 26 days earlier on Dec.2,1859 that radical abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his unsuccessful Oct.16-18,1859 raid on Harper's Ferry in Virginia.
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