In his journal for January 4, 1860, Charles Lowell Walker recorded the following:
At work as usual. I see by the news theres is likely to
be a Division in the union; the north against the South and the South again the
north. This will fulfil the Prophecy of Joseph. (Charles Lowell Walker,
Journal, January 4, 1860, in Diary of Charles Lowell Walker, ed. A. Karl
Larson and Katherine Milles Larson, 2 vols. [Logan, Utah: Utah State
University, 1980], 1:102)
Just over a year later,
Walker recorded the following entry:
The News from the East State that State Conventions and
Secession movements are the order of the Day. The Union in reality is Split from
the North and the South are opposed to each other as much as ever 2 fighting
nations were and the south, particularly South Carolina, are determined to
maintain their rights as they term the, even to the cannons mouth or the point
of the bayonet. Thousands are out [of] employment and thrown on the world to
live the best way they can, or die. Trade is almost entirely stopt. The Banks
have stopt Specie payment. The South are getting ready for war and supplying
themselves with large quanities of arms and ammunition. In fact the whole
Nation is in a Distracted Condition. They realize that the Blow will come and
they know not how to avoid it. They hold Meetings every where almost in the U.
S., makes resolutions, try to adopt measures to avert the impending Stroke that
awaits them, but its of no use, and to mend the matter Old Buck Proclaimed a
National Fast on the 4th Jan to see if the Lord would not help them out of the
scrape, but its too late now. The Lord did once offer peace and Salvation to
you but ye would not have it so now take your own course. The Lord will mock
when you fear cometh and laugh at your Calamity and the Sayings of Joseph Smith
Junr will be fulfilled to the very letter concerning South Carolina and the
United States. (Charles Lowell Walker, Journal, January 17, 1861, in Diary
of Charles Lowell Walker, ed. A. Karl Larson and Katherine Milles Larson, 2
vols. [Logan, Utah: Utah State University, 1980], 1:158)
As the editors note:
“Old Buck” is, of course, President James Buchanan, whose
indecisive actions had little or no effect in stemming the onrushing disaster
of Civil War. (Ibid., 1:158 n. 5)
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