Show HISTORY OR 0 JOSEPH JOSEPE smi I 1 1 1 aw lj 1 I 1 nedd head quarters ard 3rd div mo mi I 1 11 J grand river sep leih 1638 y to his excellency the in chief sir I 1 arrived at the coun county y beat e at ot of this abia county chuncy davies daries on the evening of the r dinst with the troops raised from the Alili militia of kay il county ja U it y when I 1 was joined by by 1 the troops oops aiom Clay c County faunty under tho the command bamma ud of general dolphan 7 in the same cariie neighborhood I 1 found from two toi to ta three ree hundred men in arms arm ll 11 prin u el troa frog the counties of I 1 cr carroll 0 and d aali saline ne these theae men inea were embodied tied under the of defending the citizens ot of davies vies county I 1 against the cormona Mor mona and wore were operating under the ord orders era of a dr austin from cal roll county the citizens of davies 0 or a large tion of the them residing on each side aide of grand giand river had left eft their farms and removed theia families either to the adjoining counties or collected them together at a place called the camp ground the whole county on the east side of grand river appears to 0 be deserted with the exception of a tew few who ho are not ao timid as their neighbors the mormon of davies county have also left their farms and have encamped for safety at a place immediately on the east bank of grand river called adam ondi ahman the numbers are ale supposed sed to be about two hundred and fifty men citizens of davies county and from fifty to one hundred men citizens of caldwell Oal dwell county both parties have been scouting through the country and occasionally casio nally taking tailing prisoners and th reaming and insulting insul pin each other but ba as yet et no blood has been shel I 1 have ordered all armed men inen from adjoining counties to repair to their homes the livili livingston ston county men and others to the amount 1 of I one hundred men have returned and there remain now abote one hundred and fifty who will I 1 qin ain in hopes return in a few d days aa rs I 1 have bave been bea e by the mormons cormons Mor mons that thai till all of those who have bean charged with a violation of the laws will be in today to day for trial when that is done the troops under my my command will be no longer required in this county if the citizens of other counties will return to their respective homes I 1 have proposed posed to leave two companies of af fifty men each in this county and discharge disch dige the remain remainder dai of the troops said two companies will remain for the preservation of order until peace and confidence are restored I 1 also enclose to your F excellency the report gf general doniphan and refer you vou for particulars to major r rogers I 1 have the ane honor to be your obedient servant D b it ATCHISON major general 3rd ard division mo mi tuesday I 1 have been at home all day considerable unwell but beat am soma better alis evening the camp traveled to brussels phillips forty fifteen miles and a part crossed over the illinois kiver this day the governor ordered captain childs to have the Bb 36 onville guards mounted with ten days provisions and in readiness to march on his arrival at the end of the week the governor also algo ordered general S D lucas of the fourth division to march I 1 immediately in with four hundred mounted ted men to the ta scene of difficulties and coq cooperate co Q operate with general atchison similar orders were issued to major malar generals lewis bolton john B dark clark and thomas agrant D grant I 1 I 1 I 1 Wed wednesday I 1 was at and about home the camp tini finished shed crossing the river and passing through Grig gaville and nd pittsfield I 1 encamped on the prairie thirteen miles thursday the camp traveled twenty two miles crossing the mississippi river on the steamer Res rescue cae op opposite Louis louisiana iuna into pike pik county couney missouri pitched tents one mile west of the town miles from kirtland 1 to show a feeling that is striving to prevail throughout hout tha tate 0 of lt missouri hii akouri I 1 give the following lo 10 aug extract from elder john D tylers eylers journal from which most of th thay facts in this history are derived this afternoon as ae I 1 was driving g the herd I 1 had occasion to go baek back atter after a cow that strayed on the prairie where w we e baited I 1 found her and went on and met two nien men who had crossed in the stem steam boata deat and had quarrelled quarrel led with some of the ca camp mp b before 6 doreme me the spokesman asked me do you yon belong to this gang of mormons cormons Mor mons yes I 1 do i said 1 are you a adkin mormon ano yes I 1 am well stop 1 I am in too much hurry harry to td be stopped and you have not power to stop me care are you such a fool as ap to te lot let those people lead you right into danger clanger what danger c why dont you kno know tho missouri missourians Missour ians ians are raisin raising armies 9 amies to out cut you all to pieces 3 we dont donl fear ear armies bod damn you dont yo you a fear bep mep me said he atthe at the same time making an attempt to take his arms from his side for le he was aimed with a brace of pistols and a dirk I 1 no I 1 boat fear qu egtill a I 1 mora I 1 I 1 do any other man aj will well bod damn aan yei ye wh what at do you fear we fear nothing 0 but god almighty well stop stop dam ye stop or ori all shoot you down well shoot if you like said 1 L mid arid passed along while he kept epy swearing he i would shoot me and said he you will all get I 1 killed bedfor before you get up the bluff brode I 1 I 1 awas was at home 0 me until about ten when I 1 rode out on horseback I 1 return returned ed a little before I 1 sunset and was at home through the evening e I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 tho following extracts fram general ati ebi sons letter to the governor of this dite date from liberty will give a pretty correct view of the army armyde ac sir the troops ordered out for the I 1 burp purpose 1 ose of putting down dawn the insurrection supposed to exist in the counties of davies and C caldwell aldwell we were re discharged on the it I 1 with the exception of two companies of the j ray militia now stationed in the county of 1 I davies under the command of brigadier general parks it was deemed necessary nece n in the state of that county that those camp campanele cam anle should remain there for a I 1 ait snort short period longer say fay some twenty days until I 1 confidence and tranquility should be e restored all the offender against the law in that county ity aga against ilist whom process was taken out were I 1 arrested and brought before a courton court of inquiry i and recognized to appear at the circuit court mr thomas 0 birch attended to the prosecuting sec on the part of the state the citizens of other counties who came in armed to the assistance f the citizens of davies county 00 anty i t have aspers ds dispersed pers ed and returned to their respective omed homes a and the mormons cormons have also returned to their homes so that I 1 consider the insurrection for the present at least to be at an end from the beat bead information I 1 can get et there are abo about tit two hundred and fifty M cpr pr families ii davies county nearly 0 oa half ot of the population and the ebule of the mormon in daams caldwell and the adjoining counties is estimated at from thirteen I 1 to 10 fifteen hundred bundled men capable of bearing ai alms ails the oi of davied davies county as 1 stated in in a former report were encamped in in a town called adani adam ondi ahman and are headed by lyman cigut a bold I 1 brave and 1 I may blay ud a ae desperate sperate anani man they appeared to J abe be debing on thu ihu defensive dete naive aud and i must murit further add ada gave up tile the wim a good deal of the jima arms taken laken by the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 and anci prisoners were ilao alo given up upon demand 1 with seeming 0 zhe woo agam again ened dewitt de witt friday li iday lai I 1 was waa aboud 1100 0 alie cy mp traveled seN seventeen enteen miles it rained much during 10 the day the saiyid crowded aiulu their tents lenta in their wet clothes cl I 1 and based lill murn morning ilig the woal women aud and I 1 children chil dien slept Dell ell ana aita there was no complaint comi I 1 ut I gold cold 3 I 1 saturday traveled eighteen miles and tented in a gruve grove having to go half a mile inde after water tt ler which was olwe the case 4 I 1 went out early in the morning returned to break breakfast tast at halt past se seven ven and took an airing on nn hoi horseback hoise baek at nine in the morning the following 0 petition is from the saints at ue de witt I 1 de witt carroll county state of missouri I 1 september to his excellency lilburn W boggs governor of the bbate of missouri your P petitioners Petition ers citizens of the county of carroll do hereby petition your excellency praying for relief that whereas your petitioners petition ers have on the instant been sorely aggrieved 00 by being beset by a lawless mob certain inhabitants of this and other counties to the injury of the good citizens of thia the adjacent places that on the aforesaid day came ain from one hundred to on one hundred and afif fifty t armed men and threatened with force and violence ici fence to drive certain peaceable citizens eizens el from their homes in defiance de fianco of all law and threatened then to drive said citizens out or of the county but on deliberation concluded to give them said citizens till the first of october next to leave said county and threatened if not gone by that time to exterminate them without regard to age or sex and destroy their I 1 chattels by throwing them in the river we therefore pray you to take such steps as shall put a stop to all lawless proceeding and we your petitioners Petition ers will ever pray ac ac benj kendrick oliver olney dudley thomas john thorp wm win P bundow 11 II T chipman jno kendrick david dixon thos dehart benj hensley franklin N T thayer ay er john tilford 11 M allace H Q G sherwood D khomas no mor john murdock mou mon U G M hinkle nathan 11 harrison arrison j james ames Vald valance nee elizabeth smith Jabez Lake henry root albert adbert loree A L caldwell Oal dwell samuel lake rufus allen alien I 1 asu asti manchester ezekiel barnes I 1 wm win winston P D H barnes john dark clark wm win S smith thos 0 james hampton asa As W burns bar ns robt hampton I 1 EM elijah li h T rogers jonathan hampton J john D dougherty 11 0 herty geo peacock I 1 moses ilar harris ris danl clark perry thayer john proctor i B B bartley tames james maual i n I 1 jonathan harris smith humphrey win jmj J hatfield I 1 sunday I 1 attended ine meeting eting both forenoon and afternoon and was waa at home in tile the e aning the funds of the camp were nearly exhausted I 1 and the counsel was to proceed on with the journey and encamped two wiles miles west of paris twenty two tivo miles some disorder in the movement of the teams and some muri me rings 8 aan ss s trying to divide and destroy they were hailed in paris pals and asked where they were driving the cattle to towards the rocky mountains well you are ging into trouble elder tyler replied we have been in that place before and know how to take it the people growled and grumbled like wolves monday the camp was called together and the council informed theta of their scanty means and that there had been a delinquency delin quenoy in consecrating their monies aud goods according n to the pattern that the council had hired iorge large sums of money for which they were bound and liable to imprison imprisonment me in n case of failure and must mast wait on the brethren cor their pay and these sums had heed been expended for the benefit of the camp they were required to br bring forward their goods which they did and I 1 elders idels B wilber and D carter went forward i with the commissaris Commis Commiss arys wagon to sll them the camp went ou on and pass passing ing through madison Madiso nr T ville where they were assailed with all kinds of I 1 bugbear stories about the mormons Mor mons war var ac tented on the west side aide of the porth north branch of salt river on tha jo E page had left on saturday with his canada camp the brethren were nvere told th that the governor was just ahead with a military force to stop them to which they gave rib no heed I 1 was q at t home until half past eight a in when I 1 rode out oat an on horseback ind and returned about five in the even evening ing the governor having h heard e a r d that pe peace ace had been restored in davies daviess and caldwell ordered generals dark crowther Crow cher lewis and bolton to di discharge charge their troops the order was as dated at 4 1 tuesday 0 lb general parks parka wrote the governor from mill port that he had been in the upper part pare of dabies county to assist assik the constable in bringing offenders to justice and that the major general with the troops from ray and clay on the dinst except two companies from ray under his commando command were w ere disbanded says general parks in this letter I 1 whatever ma may ha have 11 7 been the disposition of the people called 46 cormons mormons Mor mons before our arrival here since we have made ou our appearance they have shown no disposition to resist the laws or of hostile intentions there has been so 11 much auch prejudice and exaggeration concerned in this matter that I 1 found things entirely different e nt from what I 1 was prepared to expect when w we e arrived here we found a large bod body y of men I 1 from the counties adjoining armed and in the field for the purpose as I 1 learned of assisting the people of this county against 0 the cormons mormons Mor mons without being called out by the proper authorities PS since writing the above I 1 received information that if the committee do not agree th the tha a determination of the davies county men is to drive the mormons cormons with powder and lead the same day general parka wrote general atchison as follows 1 I am happy to be able to state to you that the deep excitement existing I 1 between the parties lifts has in in a great dep depree degree 0 ree ceased and so for far I 1 have had no occasion to resort to force in assisting the Consi albes on tomorrow to morrow a committee from davies county meets a committee of the mormons cormons at adam I 1 ondiA ahman to propose to them to buy or sell sell 11 and 1 expect to be there the mob committee met a committee commett ee of th the 0 brethren and the brethren entered into an agreement to purchase all the lands and possessions of those who desired to sell and leave davies county on saturday the dinst there are fifteen or twenty of tho the mormons cormons cited to trial at gallatin where lyman wight has pledged himself to me that they will attend I 1 I 1 was at home until eight when I 1 rode out on horseback returned about 11 a in and C continued through the afternoon and eve aing aing 11 i the camp passed through huntsville in ran dolphi county which has had beau ap pointed appointed as one of the stakes staked of zion Z io nand band istle is the ancient site of the city of manti and pitched tents at dark creek salt licks seventeen miles it wits was reported to the camp that one hundred and ten men had bad volunteered from Fan randolph dolph and gone to far west to settle difficulties wednesday this morning elder james foster one of the councilors councillors Counci lors proposed to the council to stop and brenc up the camp on account account ot oi existing circumstances so 80 much excitement so many moving west and in in io ili large bodies too it was wisdom for them to go to work and provide for their families until the diffin difficulties U laios should be settled or they heard from far west four of the 7 councillors were present and three absent elder young had stopped by the |