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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 22: Indian seers. (search)
origin, each Saint is assumed to be fired and guided by the Holy Ghost. Let us have brother Brigham for our prophet, seer, and revelator, cries some elder, and the crowd of male and female Saints respond-Amen! The voice of the people is the voice of God. Seceders may go out from either Sioux camp or Mormon church, but to depose an Indian chief is no less hard than to dethrone a Mormon seer. Sitting Bull has separated from Red Cloud, carrying with him a thousand lodges of his nation; David Smith has separated from Brigham Young, carrying with him more than a thousand families of his people; yet Red Cloud remains the Sioux chief and Brigham remains the Mormon seer. Seceders cannot take away the grace which covers an appointed chief. The seer not only talks with the Great Spirit, but executes his judgments on the earth. A buck falls sick-he grovels to his chief. That chief, he thinks, can wither him by a spell. If that magician is not softened, he must die. So thinks the Mor