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Legion. The escort arrived at Governor Young's at 9:00 a.m. and everyone saluted him at the west door of his mansion as he appeared on the steps.' The residents of Cedar City held their own celebration and Henry wrote the following about the occasion: Myself and Council bought an ox and had it slaughtered and cut up and divided amongst all the saints, every few families dining together. At nine o'clock a.m. the brethren mustered together and drilled, and then prepared a military pole for to raise. Dined at one o'clock. At !4 past two p.m., six guns were fired for the brethren to assemble themselves together at the place where the pole was to be raised, and they hoisted a sixty-foot pole with a fine flag on the top with the following motto: 'Holiness to the Lord.' Also drawn on the flag was a steam engine, a blast furnace, a cannon, and other machinery. When the pole was erected a salute was fired and we all gave three cheers. We then retired to the Meeting House. I spoke a short time on the celebration of the 4th of July, instructing the congregation that General Washington was raised up of the Lord to do a work preparatory to God's Kingdom being set up, and that the constitution of the United States is holy, just, and good, and will abide forever, but the administrators thereof are corrupt and wicked and do not deal out justice according to the laws of the constitution. It was not that I particularly cared about the celebration of the 4th of July, but I believe there was policy in celebrating it at the present time. After the meeting, they held a party where there was only room for about fifty couples to dance at a time; Another dance was held in the evening which lasted until midnight. On July 5, Brother Webb brought 115 pounds of flour from Paragon& for the men working at the iron company and wanted to trade
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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