First Presidency counselor
George Q. Cannon
1827–1901
1 topic · 3 dated events · 1 source
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Utah Polygamy and the Manifesto
First Presidency counselor
Cannon edited the Manifesto into its final, shortened, first-person form and defended it publicly as inspired. He also signed recommends for plural marriages after 1890, told the New York Herald in 1899 that such marriages might be performed in Canada and Mexico, and testified in court that he knew of none. He is the pivot on which the question of institutional good faith turns.
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The Manifesto is written and releasedhinge
Woodruff wrote in his journal that he was under the necessity of acting for the temporal salvation of the church. He drafted the statement in the third person, intending signatures from the Presidency and Twelve; George Q. Cannon edited it down by roughly 150 words and it went out as a personal declaration over Woodruff's name alone.
Woodruff testifies that the Manifesto covers cohabitation
Asked before the master in chancery whether existing plural relations should also cease, Woodruff answered that that had been the intention. Restoration of the escheated property depended on such assurances. George Q. Cannon testified the same month that he knew of no plural marriage entered into since the Manifesto.
Enabling Act opens the way to statehood
Congress invited Utah to apply a seventh time. In April of the same year, at a meeting of the Presidency and Twelve in the Salt Lake Temple, Woodruff told George Q. Cannon that the day was near when there would be no difficulty in the way of good men securing noble wives; that year the Presidency authorized plural marriages in Canada, Mexico and two Utah temples.
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Journal of Discourses, 26 vols.
Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George Q. Cannon and others
What Brigham Young and his contemporaries actually preached about race and priesthood, in their own words and at length.
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