Show I 1 secured I 1 HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH lt L J MAY isa V Wednes wednesday day dar 18 rode on oa horseback ducom pained by dr richards and clark dark leal to john alid arld arid searched out the N E quarter section 15 6 PT aw and contracted jor the refusal of the same earne at three dollars per acre dined tit at br pr visited br 54 ac which with Vu business siness at the dlf dif derent different offices closed the I 1 day i there was a general representation or orthe odthe the branches in lit the eastern state stales at a conference of the church at new york yore see limesand Time times sand and seasons thursday 19 it rained and I 1 was at home until oile olle 9 ir clock when wilen Vat I 1 attended tended ap special a special ecial session 0 of f the city coun council cli cir john C bennett erine it having discovered that liis ills whore doms and abominations hiat hlat ions lons were fist f coming to td light and that thit the indignation of an insulted and abused people were risking rapidly y thought best to mih mth mik a virtue of lie rie necessity bes beg ces sity and try to make it appear Sp peir that lie r vas ras as innocent by resigning his office of or mayor which the council most gladly a accepted c elfed arid and joseph smith was wa elected mavor mayor of or the city of or natt nail nauvoo by the council ard hyrum smith vice vica mayor while the tiie election was going forward I 1 received and wrote the foll following oking revelation may imay 19 1842 verily thus the lord unto you my servant joseph by the voice of my i spirit hiram kimball has been insinuating ev evil 1 and forming evil opinions against you with others andi andl and it fhe he continue in ili them lie he and they shall be accursed for I 1 am the lord thy god and will stand by thee and bless biess thee amen which I 1 threw across the tile room to hiram kimball one of ilia counselors after the election I 1 spoke at somo some length concerning ahe he evil reports which were abroad ii 9 the city eity concertin con cernin myself and the necessity of or counteracting the designs of our enemies establishing a night watch ac whereupon the council resolved that the mayor be au theorized zed to establish a night watch and control the sama same william willia M smith 1 ith was elected counselor it in place oJo sepi mith elected mayor george asmith counselor tn in paco pace 0 of f hugh mcfall removed from the city I 1 j on account of the reports in circulation in the ille city this tin s daf dai concerning the ex mayor and to the public b arg tore the council closed I 1 asked john C bennett if lie he had against me when dr bennett arose before the council ind and a house filled with spectators and replied I 1 know what I 1 am about and the heads of or the tho church know what they are about I 1 expect I 1 nave gave no difficulty m with itil fill the heads leads of the church publicly avow that any one who has said that i have stated that Gener general joseph alJoseph smith has given me authority to hold illicit intercourse with wo kieu nen is a liar in the face of god those who nave said it are damned liars they are infernal kars nars ile he mever never either in public or private gave the ene ane any such authority or license and any person son pon who states it ia is a scoundrel and a liar ilar I 1 have heard it said that I 1 should become a second evardi avard by withdrawing from the church and that I 1 was at zt variance with the he heads and should t drean droan ean influence against them because I 1 resigned itoe office ofA of mayor layor this tin s is false I 1 have no difficulty with the heads of the ilia church and I 1 intend a 0 continue with you and hope the time may f como come when I 1 may be restored to full confidence and ny my former standing in the church tad ul that rny my conduct may maye be such as to warrant irly lily restoration and should the units ever come 4 I 1 atiat tat I 1 may my hitie have the opportunity to test my faith tt 9 will then be known whether A J am a traitor or 1 i true inan man j 1 then tia said 0 o him ill lil you please stafe stale ir finitely whether VJ you know uny any anything thing ii against le ns t chara character ofer cier either in lit public or pi private lva iva to I 1 general bennett replied I 1 1 ido I do no not in all ail my intercourse with general smith in public and in private he ha s ceeil strictly virtu virtuous ous ons f I 1 then thell made some pertinent remarks before rl e I 1 council concerning those who had been vilty of circulating false reports acs and said let let one twelve months see if brother joseph is hot called for tor to go to every part of the city to inep keep them out of bf their groves and I 1 turn the kes les krs iff kes ivf ubon upon them from thi tah i hour if they wl ivil 1 not spent pent and annd stop sto their lii iii ings and isings let tod bod od curee curso them and le let t their tongues clease cleale to I 1 is ia roofs arois of their mouths friday 20 charges having ben been preferred dinst robert D foster by samuel 11 smith viora V iora a special council for abusive lan ian language guage wards wardi haid taid samuel IJ 11 smith also for abusing lnell lacil t nv irshal of the tha city I 1 spent the day ly in ill aneil anell ancil and such wes woo wa the proof against foster ih li id abor imbor to get hini llin clear even irp irm P llis ilia which I 1 desired to do hop L he impald amend i saturday 21 I 1 spent the day with fite the high ol 01 nauvoo ailing the case of lobert obert V D foster shauncey L hi abec and bers hers sunday 22 I 1 spent mostly at home in looking at the paper papers I 1 discovered the iol fol liag u in the tile quincy whig assassination of ex governor boggs cf or mis mig lilburn W boggs late governor of mis soui soul iwas assassinated at bis residence in enc ence missouri by an unknown hand on the gill instant he was sitting in a room by himself when some soine person discharged a pistol loaded with buckshot through th an adjoining window three of the tile shot took look effect in lit ills his head one of which penetrated the llie brain ills his son yon a boy bor hebding the report retort of the pistol ran into the room in which whick Ms ills father was seated sealed and found him in ili a helpless r situation upon which he fie give the alarm foot prints were found beneath the window and the pistol which gave the fatal shot the governor was alive en on but no hopes are entertained of his re recovery dovery recovers A man was and it is probably arrested before this there are several rumors in fit circulation inin in regard gard to the horrid at af fair one of or which throws the crime upon the mormons cormons Mor mons from tha the fact we suppose that mr boggs was governor at the limesand time lime fand jand and ili in no small degree in instrumental in driving them from the stae stale smith too loo the mormon prophet as its we understand prophesied a n year or so ago his death by violent means hence there is plenty of foundation for rumor the citizens of independence pend pen dence ence had offered a reward of for the murderer I 1 went to the editors office and inserted the following in the wasp I 1 i r nauvoo ill III may 22 1842 mr bartlett dear sir in your paper tiie tile the quincy whig of the dinst you have done me manifest injustice in ili ascribing to me a prediction of the demise of Lilburn W boggs esq ex governor offis of missouri by violent hands boggs was a candidate for the state senate and I 1 presume fell felt by byr the hand of a political opponent with his hands and face yet dripping with the blood of murder bui but lie he died not through my instrumentality my aly hands bands are clean and my heart pure from the ilia blood of all ail men I 1 am tired of the misrepresentation calumny arld and detraction heaped upon ma me by wicked men and desire and claim only those principles guaranteed to all men rien by tho ilia constitution and laws of the united State sand of illinois will you dome do me the ilia justice to publish this communication and oblige yours respectfully JOSEPH SMITH SAUTH church of jesus christ of latter litter day saints in nauvoo to the saints scattered abroad g eeling dear brethren inasmuch us as the lord hath shoken sn a and d the commandment hath bath gone forth for the pothering ahling together of his people from Ba babylon byor that they partake not of her liar sins and receive not of her plagues it se see emeth good unto us and also to tila hie holy ghost to write somewhat for your instruction in obeying that commandment that you have no need that ue we exhort you to the observance of this commandment is evl evi evident ident for yourselves know that this is that which was spoken by the lord in ili tile the parable of the tares of the field who promised that in the harvest he fie would say to the servant g gather a ther til the a wheat into my barn til ill the a signs 8 of dr the tl times proclaim tin s the end of the tile world and arid thus admonish lri tri us 0 o the performance of of this tills duty yet notwithstanding the tha spirit tes fi fieth of these tiles things lings ti and you desire with great anxiety to gather with the saints yet are many bijou 0 f you hindered even to this day s 0 that io to will wilt to obey the commandment is present but how to pert perk per form you find not feeling therefore tho the responsibility binding on you to observe the statutes arid and commandments of the lord and livin living in fit the mi midst of a generation that are ignorant what the mind of lle ile tila lie lord is concerning his people and of the ilia things that belong to their peace we are well aware of the embarrassments embarrass ments under which many of you labor in endeavoring to obey the laws pertaining to your it I 1 is then no noi marvel that in ili this tin s day when darkness covers the earth and dar darkness liness the that his this generation who know not the he day aay of their visitation nor the dispensation of tho the falness of times in which they live should mock at the gathering together of the saints for salvation as did lid the he at the ilia mighty work of righteous noah in ili buning an ark in in the midst of the tho land for tila the salvation of his cause bv by water seeing then that such blindness hath happened to the gentile world which to then is an n evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of god think it not strange that you should have to pass through the like afflictions which till your brethren tile the saints in ili ill bill ages have done before you to be reviled persecuted and hated of all men for tile llie name of christ and the gospel gospels sake is the port portion iott lott of which vill ill saints have had to tor partake who have one anc before you yon you yon then can expect no better than that there bo be men mail of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the 16 truth who will evil entreat you and unjustly despoil you of maters ro perty and embarrass you in ili pecuniary matera and ami render it the more difficult to obey tha the th to gither with ith tile the faints saints pretending pretend ng to io god service whose judgment now lin gereth not and their glum gium berelli not lia ila nut hut t lil lit biet biel ethren hren m mith nith ith till all these con ron considerations ions lons b 4 creyon in Te lation td 5 our WA think t expedient lo 10 admonish you that you bear and forbear z aa beco ineth saints anti and having don done a al I 1 hat that it 14 and right to clithia justice of those hat injure you wilne ili ill you come short of ul ob it commit the residue to the th ejust just judg or god and shake off tile tiie dust of your as a testimony of having done so i finally brethren as it is reported unto luno us that there be some who have not riot done that tint is lawful and right but hiiva haver designedly done injury to their neighbor or creditor by fraud thin thinking hing to find protection with us in such iniquity let it all such bs be warned and certified that with them we have no fellowship when known knowing to be such until all reasonable measures are ere taken to make just restitution to those hose unjustly injured now therefore there fure let this epistle be read lit in al the branches of tile the church as testimony monr moar that as representatives thereof we have taken takli n for the girdle of our loin stand faithfulness for the girdle olour of our reins reint I and andl that for Z ons sake we will not rest and arid for jerusa jerusi lemn lemy sake saie we will wili willbon not hold our peace until the righteousness thereof go forchas for thas brightness and the salvation lvalion ya thereof as a lamp that burneth 11 your brethren and andl s servants in the kingdom and patience of jesus I 1 WILLIAM yilli vILLI aal AAI MARKS AUSTIN cowles prel president diat deat A CHARLES 0 i JAMES ALLRED ELIAS HIGBEE GEORGE W HARRIS 1 AARON JOHNSON wai WAL huntington ONSen sen HENRY G SHERWOOD A A SAMUEL BENT V 14 LEWIS iu DAVID FULMER THOMAS GROVER NEWEL KNIGHT k LEONARD SOBY 11 attest HOSEA hosca STOUT stour cleria may 22 1842 11 monday 23 I 1 called a special session of the city council at which dimick B huntington wa was s elected coroner or the city of nauvoo k tuesday 24 chauncey L L higbee was cut off ff from the chi cri by the for unchaste and conduct towards ds certain females and for teach teaching ing it was right if kept secret ac helas also put under bonds lo 10 keep the tile peace on him for slander before ebenezer Ebe E eni pezer bezer zei Robins da justice of theR hi peace i 1 wednesday 25 I 1 spent in counseling the bishops and assisting them to ex expose pose iniquity notice vas was this thib day given arven to io john C bennett that the he firs first I 1 presidency twelve alid and bishops had withdrawn fellowship from flom him h n and were about to sir sit him ill in the paper but an on his his humbling himself and alid begging we would spa spare re him fro from 0 the tile paper for his mothers sak sake gitle the if notice nolice was w d s aarom the thursday 26 this forenoon I 1 attended a meeting 9 of near a hundred of the brethren in the lodge room to whom john cbennett acknowledged his ilia wicked arid and h licentious dentious cent ious lous conduct towards certain females in lit nauvoo and that lie he was worthy of the tile severest of chastisements and arid cried like a child ard begged that he be might be spared in any possible way so deep was ills lits ap apparent a ent ant sense of his guilt and unfitness prof t a e society so deeply diche did lie lle feign or really feel contrition for the tho tuo moment ment that he was forgiven still stil I 1 plead for mercy forkim at V 1 at I 1 pm I 1 atten attended deol deci a large and add respectable meeting of the phe citizens of the temple and addressed them oil on the principles of government ern menty ment at considerable length that I 1 did not intend to vote the whig or 0 democratic ticket as such but would go for those who would support good order ac i 1 J 1 I the meeting nominated nomina comina ted candidates for senate representatives and other officers arld and expressed their entire disapprobation of df the quincy whig relative to my being concerned against governor bogs boggs 1 I met with the tha ladies relief reller society y and a ud gave e thema therina short address a synopsis was reported t by miss aliss E R snow president joseph smith read rend the mth uth 1 fth chapter of ezekiel said the lord had declared by b the prophet that tha people should each one stand stan for to himself and d depend a d on no man mail or men mail in I 1 hat that state stata of carru corruption yifen ion 0 of the tho jewish chirch that righteous persons could only deliver their own souls applied it to the ilia present stata state of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints said if it the tile people departed from the lord they must fall that they |