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nally valued at ten dollars for each family, and five dol- 
lars for single persons, he again took a receipt and. re- 
lease from each, discharging Thompson and his two cor- 
porations from all demands to date; and from many who 
had had money for any purpose, and especially from 
those heads of families who were again living by them- 
selves on pre-emptions, for the value of the very property 
sacrificed, such as furniture, teams, and tools needed to 
farm, which he then re-sold to them, or let them use, on 
that date he took their notes or bonds payable seven 
years thereafter, with interest at ten per cent. per an- 
num, and thus had the title to the property, and their 
note for its value besides. The inventoried value of the 
whole property sacrificed at this time as recorded in his 
official record book by families, was the sum of $11,174.26 
from forty-four persons. 
In August, 1856, Thompson and Butts commenced 
publication of another paper called the “Western Nu- 
cleus and Democratic Echo,” which supported James 
Buchanan’s claim to the presidency, though many of 
Thompson’s religious writings were against slavery. 
In the spring of 1857 it became necessary to pay up 
for the land and the winter had been very severe and 100 
head of cattle died worth about $2,000.00, which had been 
an expected source of getting money to pay for the land, 
and some were unable to prove up. Directions were 
given to prove up the best claims and to some extent 
individuals were allowed to use such property as could 
be converted into money for that purpose. But as entries 
of the land were made, Thompson demanded that each 
one should convey the land to him, for the reasons given 
before that it was all taken while they were on the sacri- 
fice and hence belonged to the Sacred Treasury. In some 
cases the money to enter was borrowed of money lenders 
to whom the land was conveyed for security and a time 
bond taken back and later paid for, and deeded to 
Thompson. Much dispute afterwards arose over just 
what was agreed on at this time when the deeds were 
given. 
The people afterward claimed it was all to be deeded 
back to them when they were out of the sacrifice, the 
period of which Thompson had prolonged beyond the 
time at first set of two years from August, 1854, giving 
