“It was necessary that George Washington should be
raised up, that the battles of the Republic should be fought, that the Colonies
should be emancipated from the fetters of the mother country and declared free
and independent States. Why? Because God
had in view the restoration of the everlasting Gospel to the earth again ...”
(George Q. Cannon, 15 Aug 1869, Journal of
Discourses 14:55-6)
