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Show TCJIE PROPHET'S DEATH of The Nauvoo Neighbor, the , Mormon his belief that the leaders of the movement fully intended to destroy their lives. The Prophet was quietly talking while the arms were being thrown iuto the wagon. He told Cpt Dunn that bis boys would do nothing wrong, they were good boys, and as be turned his horse towards Carthage be waved his hand to his friends and aid: 'You are good boys; farewell, if I never see you again? " It was midnight when the bmitns reached Carthage and women and children or tne city troiu the governor with respect., an even with emotion. Joseph's wife presented it in person, accompanying it with a brief history of their troubles, and a ststement of their painful apprehension This lady is described as large and wel1 built, with dark hair, light hazel eyes, and a finely moul led head, muob supe rior to her hmband a She wa- - tne daughter of a Bapiist clergyman living on the Susquhanna, was naturally intelligent, and in her strange and eventful career had learned much of human naI wick were the only living persons left in the town during the night, and tbey kent wHicu ty the dead bodies. Oo the next day the corpses, wet with blood, were pu'. into boxes of rough oak boards cov ered with prairie hay and an Indian horse blanket, and thus carried to Nan voo. Got Ford had endorsed an order to the Nauvoo legion it, defend their city till holp could be sent them and had sent a letter o Mrs. Emma Smith, by Dr. Richards, advising euiet and patience, and in twenty uiinu.tf9 thereafter was hurrying over the prairie towards Quincy, confidently expecting that the morrow's fua would find only heaps of stones and ashes to mark the place where Carthage had been. Three days later h? was receiving and 'making fashionable calls in Quincy. Intelligence of paper. Dr. Richmond, in his narrotive, Bays: puMish the followingztracts from I have all these papers before me, and the Chicago Times, giving n account ol no one can fail to that they be the martyrdom of Joseph and Ilyrum' lieved that courseperceive to the be only one gnritb, from the pen cf Dr. B. W. Rich- that could save the bloodshed from city mond, feeling assure I that they wit and murder. They did what they be prove intensely interesting to most off lieved 10 be legal, under their charter, our readers Dr. iiiuiim md farmed iJie and claimed the right to be tried within W' acquaintance of Joseph Smith',' but their city limits, repudiating thejttris-dictio" M bclii-vt-Mormonism in not a of the courts of the county." rei account the at wrote he following The Higbees, Laws, and Fosters fled quest of the Prophet, made just previous in o the SURRENDERED TO THE AUTHORITIES. country and published the out mid ia manuscript to his A thousand men had responded to the ture. exaggerated, was left at Dr. Richmond's death in the rage to the world, grossly thousand men for roops, and were encamped in of BEFORE THE GOVERNOR LEFT CAIITHAOB calls a moh a that ban is of his widow, from whom it wan alleging Mr. the Smiths were he'd to trial for riot. or the vicinity of the court house. and with threats had assembled, yells obtaiued by tie Times. and under the impression of securing who hindered them, and had Wods, Smith's counsel, who had pre to After giving & history of the condition death all to endeavored to hini the ceded demolished the Carthage, greater safety, did not ask for bail, bit, press, destroyed of affairs in aud around Nauvoo hesayB: with in the Governor Ford oonsented to bo lodged in jail. On the and other burned danger property impress . There dwelt among the Saiuts, and building, and morning befere commitimnt. they were was On and Fosters. the of urisoncrs. to the ci the belonging y much of the time ut .Nauvoo, six or arrested on a charge of high treason, on the other band, at an investigation sub reassured that they would be protected THE DEATH OF SMITH eight persons wie were determined to of no examination wa Reached Nauvoo early in the R their Or. On the arrival J. the after Wakefield, held, which, however, morning sequently of that end career an the morning sing- New bring to York, testified that the march to pTess of people at the hotel was so had, and no one supposed them guilty. after the assassination, and fell with ular man, Joseph Smit h and his brother to see or masses was "as The troops incessantly demanded to be terrible effect upon the entire communigreat, so anxious were the There were twe brothers the office of the newspaper'Dead March "Ilvrum. in the Smiths, that Gjv. Ford and Gen. taken to Nauvoo, but the governor de ty. The Prophet of God had been slain sulernn as the and derly worthfrom Cincinnati, named lligbee, that no violence was used to Deming conducted them before the Mc clined to grant their request, oa the by the ungodly. Their feelings were leas and reckless fellows; two brothers Saul; ward an) one, and aothing but the press Donough county troops, and introduced ground that their mutinousspirit would akin to those of the car'y apostles when named Foster, Englihnien by birth, who them as the Gens Sn.ith. The Carthage surely lead to an attaek cn the city. He they leaned that Jesus h;id been crucidisturbed. was bad come among the Saints and grown While the discussion was going on Grays took umbrage at this, regarding it therefore disbanded them at Carthage. fied While preparations were brothand other iwo rich by speculation, ef the press, as disrespectful to themselves, and ex The Smiths were escorted to jail by the made to receive the bodies. Dr. being Richer u ntiiuel Wilton and W ilium Law, tana concerning the destruction a message to Gov pressed their disapprobation ty hissing Carthage Grays, their most bitter ene mond repaired to (he tavern of the Prodian refugees, who had engaged in the each party had sent of the case. Mr. Gen. Deming. for which offense he imme mies, whose captain had the day oefore phet, to witness the scene with his famiFord with a statement revolutionary movement under McKen the of a words will beat describe peace at Carthage diately ordered them to ground their ordered them t fix bayonets and load ly. His justice tie, an l on the failure of that enterpr i Smith, of Hancock the seat county, had arms'. They refused to obey, and at the with ball cartridges to sustain them tho heartrending details. He sajs: county had fled lo the Slaies,aad floated around mmand of their captain, fixed bayonets selves in their mutinous action in hi- issued warrants for the arrest of the .'When I enteied the mansion I found in the west with the mere wreek of of riot. on a ball cartridges. The iog Gen. Deming. This captain was the wife of Joseph seated in a chair in and with loaded charge press destroyers in large fortune which they rad lett Canada. Wra. Law had made himself Some of them escaped through a writ o' Governor interposed, and cooly asked if also the justice of the peace before whom the centre of a small room, weeping and habeas corpus obtained from the munici they would obey him. They responded they had been arraigned A lawyer by wailing bitterly, in a loud and unretfio J opular with the Saints that at a and of he court w or strained voice, her face covered with her countermanded s Nauvoo, name Yes, lieutenant of Skinner the subsequently whereupon pal held to provide against the pes to be arrested for the same of- the general's order, and thus averted the the company. He had lormeily been bands. Rev. Mr. Green came in, and refused without left of the church being bibility The Wartaw Signal, of June 19th, imminent danger. About an acre of the counsel of tne Smitns, but had quar as the bitter cries of the woman a. prophet, he bad been set apart, with fense. a mobocratio appeal to ground, in the open space in the centre relled with them, and now loudly de reached his ears, he burstweeping contained 1844, forth in tones 'several others, te succeed in the leader i t mat nauvoo Daa Deen of the town, was covered with ordinary manded their expulsion from the county of manly grief, and, trembling in every arms, ship, provided Joseph or Ilyrum should declareddeclaring law by the Pro- martial under tents, and into these the To such men Gov. Ford commii ted the nerve, approached Mrs Smith and exdie, or be assassinated, Vhich they nhet: that man in d were crowded pell raell, with Smiths for safe keeping, diahanding. a claimed. 'Oh. Sister Emma, God blesa soldiers every While still in the constantly feared. an in that was under Warsaw or out arms; order discipline, some were few hours before be left, within a fjw you.' Then clasping her head in his confidence of the church, he was, it is and injured people were determ playing cards, and others drinking, or rods of the jail, a thousand or more men hands, he uttered a long and fervent suited abduction the and for claimed, plotting to red reins their wrongs; that troops boiling potatoes in small iron pots, or whom he dare not take with him to Nau- prayer for her peace, protection and re assassination of Joseph. During the inei were promised from Missouri and Iowa, roasting bits of bacen impailed on sharp voo for fear they would burn the city. time of a great scarcity he had charge signation. Ihe first words tbepoor wo in were men 300 and cakes. corn Rushville; or were man u'tered were, 'Why, 0 God, am I was Governor About ad ready hour the the Many sticks, baking of of a flouring tn'll, and ran the prices breadstuff up to oppressive figures. that the delegates sent to the governor pretty drunk, and let out without reserve dressing the Mormons at Nauvoo 6 thus afQicted ? Why am I "a widow and had not returned, and if they failed what was going on in the camp "Death o'clock p.m. some 200 armed men, my children erphans? Thoa knowest I Against this speculation on the necessi to secureyet his interference, a day would to the Prophet!" was the watchword disguised with red, black and blue have always trusted in Thy law.' Mr. tics of the pcor, Joseph interposed, so for a general rally as a And here the doctor may be allowed to be set forthwith and his this far as paint, surrounded the Carthage jail. Green rejoined to ber that this affliction position would allow, to the officers of justice; pursue the thread of the narrative. He which was guarded by half a dozen of ould be to ber a crown of life. She assist posse, to al ad current of the Jed only that muskets had been received from ays: "I mingled freely with these the Grays, the rest being half a mile dis- answered quickly ready setting in strongly between them 'MT HUSBAND WAS MX CROWN; Joined to thesoeix men was another of Quincy, and men and arms were prom men, to learn tneir intentions, and round tant. The guards fired their guns at too were St. that ised from Leais; and nxefl they settled him and my children I have suffered as loaded were but For the among mob, purposes make them than wore desperate only they any of with wads, nobody was hurt. Quickly the loss of all things, and why, Oh God, named Jackson. He had Jed a wander weak in Hancock county to effect their them to kill the Smiths. and calling on everybody to come The guard at the door where the disarming these valiant sentinels, the am I thus deserted, and my bosom torn ing life, and at last came to Nauvoo, and object, will "You be to aid. their was proceeding, assured me that mob rushed up the Gtairs leading to the with this ten fold anguish?' I passed trial doing your for a time demeaned himself so as te God and your country a service in aid if the Governor did not hang Joe second floor, where tho prisoners were into the next room, and the aged mother of confidence and be to the gain man;, most- heaven- - more than a hundred had sworn confined. The door to their room had ef Joseph and Ilyrum came up to me, oa intimate terms with the Prophet ing us to rid earth of & said the to never wretch," incendiary daring hot even a latch, and Ilyrum Smith, on with a gaze of wild despair, and clasping go heme until he was shot Joseph Smith was not a suspicious nan sheet. Thus it will be seen that war some at of After his length speaking seeing the approach of the bloodthirsty me with both hands she asked me why but took a stranger for what he pro was virtually declared, and death to the friend Marks' services, in which he in crew, to be, although he had sprang to it, closed, and held it. they bad shot her clear children. Htr Mormons proclaimed before Gov. Ford cidentally states that he at one time a volley of balls went crashing eyes were dry, and ber anguish seemed Instantly BE F.N BKTRATEO AG UN AND AO&1X arrived at Carthage, on June 21st. Oa saved the twelve from being assassin through the thin protection into the too deep for tears. She paced the room, by almost every leading nan in th learning of the military preparations, ated by Rigdon, who had resolved to them ene of turned around, went to the window, and under room, striking Hyrum church, who had, atone time and an Joseph Smith ordered the legion under make way for his dis and the and the near by prophetship noBe, eye entering then to the door of the room where Jo other sought to use him and the church arms, and in a speech declared the of Brigham Young and the other the brain. He reeled backwards, ex- seph's wife was still weeping, and Mr.. city posing for their wn private ends. Jackson under martial law. Oa this declaration members of the counsel of twelve, the claiming, Green still praying. was at length suspected of counterfeiting was based a to the narrative: returns doctor sabsequently O GOD, I AX A DEAD MAN, 'In another room the children of Jo and bad laid his plans to obtain dies When myself and Mr. Marks reached and at this instant another ball entered seph were all huddled together, the eld THE CrlARGG Or HIGU, TREASON, with which to manufacture notes of sev ' On which he was arrested. In this same Carthage, the Smiths were undergoing under his chin and plunged upward in- est, an adopted daughter, 1 thisk, being 4'rul'populur banks. Meanwhile he ha examination in Hamilton's tavern, tho to his brain. He fell backward at fall about 18 Two young boys were lyiig made proposals of marriage (o the daugh speech Joe declared that God had set up on His the and the standard earth, pow mob spirit being so violent that ihey length and was dead. While he was an the floor, and the other two were ter of Hyrura Smith, and had been re of would bow the before earth ers it dare not go to the court room, where so falling a ball struck bis knee, passed kneeling over them, mingling their grief jeoted and iuformed by her father that .Nevertheless tne moment tne governor much scope was offered to those who through the leg. and out at the thigh in one wild ecream of childish despair. ho was a wicked, unprincipled man, were resolved to Blay them at. all haz- - Another struck his right side, shattered Mormon the arrived disbanded "At the house of Ilyrum, a little way troops whom his daughter should never marry. acre zarus. me the crystal of his wa'ch, and entered off, the scene wa not less were' to left and sir. Maries matters own take their introduced Miss Smith was a lovely and accomto Gov. Ford, the Prophet and his broth course. The governor at first issued his body. Some friend had given Joe His wife had ga'hered her family ef plished girl, intellectual and well educaand several other persons present in Smith a revolver, and when his brother our children into the siiliug-toom- , both and sides that ers, declaring proclamation aud married a respectated, eventnally small bedroom. a The be trial was should heard. he about Afterwards four sal the mob old, the pro; fell, years fairly haviBg pushed (be door, youDgest, ble young merchant in the city. - This in a small disabled in issued to that directed The Dr. the and thi held on sittingroom her ceeding and another, himself, poor Richards, mayor by lap. and his rebuff enraged the ferocious and council of anvoo, in which he ar back part of the house, on the srconl Taylor, partially open, he passed the feiatthe table of her husband had vagabond so much that he threatened to the case at length and decided every floor. I converged half an hour with muzzle into the opening and fired three come in and formed a group of about . abduct her aud swore vengeance . 1 i l. l. against gued t her father. Jackson was a very tall, point against the Saints. He declared josepn nmun, anu torn mm piainy n s shots into the crowd, a fourth cap miss- twenty around the room. They were all in that they had violated the constitution danger, which seemed no wav to dis ing fire. They were then forced back sobbing and weejing, each expressing black-eyeman, a daredevil at heart and a bankrupt in charao. in interfering with the freedom of the turn mm. ne rcmorKea mat ne was from the door and retreated across the his grief ia his own peculiar way. Airs. rm seizing property unlawfully surrounded by so many enemies tbat he room, Smith and Taylor making for a Smith seemed stupitied with horrer at ter, and scrupled at no means to compiss press, in usurping the power of the court in knew not whom io trust, and insisted window. Taylor put one foet out and tht deed. the destruction of both father and teat the press was a nuisance that his people were greatly misrepre- - received four balls in it. fell back into While these scenes were being enact deciding daughter. sented. He appeared straightforward (he room, and crept under a bed. As ed in the city the bodiea were on the eto With nil these men the Prophet came After disbanding his troops. Joseph in his expression of his feelings and Joseph 8 head protruded from the win- way from Carthage. To preserve peace to be on bad terms, and the result was fled to Iowa, where he remained until he opinions, and evinced much acquaintance dow, two balls from the outside mob and prepare the citizens to endure the that they purchased a tr ss and started received the governor's letter, and then with the world; together with k com pierced his chest, one near the throat, ordeal with resignation, a general as an anti Mormon paper called The ExBoth Joseph and Ilyrum were plete knowledge of the fickleness of hu- and tho other lower down aud passing sembly was called at 10 o'clock a. m., returned. positor, the first number of which con- afraid of assassination, as their lives had man nature. As I parted with him he through the lungs. He was also fired whioh was addressed Cy w. W. meips, tained a violent assault on Joseph, calbeen threatened, and appeal presented his b und and said: 'Stanger, upon from the rear by thoe inside, one and by Col. Buckmister, of Alton, frequently culated to excite mob violence against to ed the governor for a guard, but if I fall by the band of assassits, tell ball entering his back and another his to Gov. Ford. him and the city of the Saints.,. .Thu was denied. Accordingly the truth about my boys,' a naine by thigh. Ho reeled forward, the blood their "MO OSK THOUGHT OP BKYENOE; request was conveaed in council view of the city At 1 tssure started for Carthage alone, to wbicn be called bis friends spurting from his wounds at every all seemed overpowered with grief. ardanger, and, after consulting legal au- they I told the world heart stroke, would him I When surrender that themselves. if bodies, about the 3 the in from afternooa o'cltfck tho window plunged thority, declared the paper a nuisance four miles out, they were met by Cap any thing. By request I had a a inter- - among the mob outside, aud rived, in charge of the marshal, Samuel Accordingly the mayor istued an order tain uov. with wun wno an for order me the view Dunn, asm WHEN WAS DEAD UK STRUCK TDK GROUND. II. Smith, the only surviving brother ef tora, for its abatement. To have arrested was of only the in arms State the whether real the ef Now deed the wasdoue no further the murdered men, and followed by Dr. possession danger that the publishers for libel would not have faced and and I work about of excitement. the him returned assured offered Saints, was violence his person to Richards, and Mr. Hamilton, of Carthaverted the danger of a mob, and to fullest to with hiui of on the the It whs at this Dr. Richards had the lobe of his ear age. They were received near the temconviwtion, my part city. have arrested tbem at all would have were Dr. that numerous Richmond that there reached the carried persons jtmong been likely to provoke violence. The juncture away by a ball that also left a ple grounds, by Gen. Joseph Smith's He crowd who was tha never "I intended to ia the leave over scar says: city.' the jugular vein an inch in staff, the major general aad staff, the traveling sitting of the 'council was long and tryuntil Smiths 24 the were reached and June dad. He west, drew Taylor from under t- -e brigadier general and staff, and other Nauvoo, Carthage length. debates and the and s uteineuts of ing, A witu WAS MAN GOTKilNOR to went the OF Nauvoo "TBE him SMALL in the dungeon, saying, commanders of the Region, the city bed and hid friends, person under oath showed cleatly the aud, 1 As Smith. i' House, eu 8TITUKK, 'Brother by Joseph Taylor, I want you to live; council, and a vast concourse of citizens. painful apprehensions of all concerned. tered thekept t I hall saw a dressed aarK a?td find you here." Richards The officials formed around the bodies, witn lie will net ryes large.well ap complexion, The horrors of Missouri were fresh in they seated on a trunk at the fur peared like a man weary of human was Smith's private secretary, and Tay. the masses silently openiug to give them individual The Fosters and accomtheir memory. eud of the hall, quietly smoking nature and of life, and to me mort th in lor was editor 05 the Atauvoo neighbor. way, and as the mournful procession the ther plices bad been expelled front wno was ho the fear could that me as out to was The if ended and betrayed the per moved on, the women broke eut in la-- , tot, pointed tragedy church, and one of them had been cigar, Smith. He was over six feet be would, protect Dis prisoners. Alter petrators were out of reach before the mentations at the sight of the two rude proven guilty of abuse lo females and Joseph of heavy build, with broad should the conduct of the military in the tiorn-in- guard arrived at the jail. The bodies boxes in the W8gen, covered by the Intall, The evidence reprimanded by Smithy he thought Utile could be told as to of tho victims were at first laid in a dian blanket and hair ers, The weeping wos comlight oomplexion, light that the whole hix had been engaged in a do blue would a what before fore eves, of atotber nose, the lower to room fhe they municated and as leng retreating crowd, and spread along was deemed eon jail building, bogus i. soon as possible wore removed to Ham the vast waves of humanity extending elusive. Wilson Law had seduced an head, large brain and short neck. It morning. was the first time I had ever seen him On the afternoon of June 27th,' Gov ilton's tavern. from the temple to the residence of the orphan girl and been exposed. William and the Nauvoo to came a was with one an Fori escort of Gov. with his impression when mingled three prophet. The groans, and sobs, and Ford, Law had ottered Jackson $500 troops, He was easy in his manners, and seemed 60 men or more, and addressed thi citimiles out from Nauvoo, met the mcssen shrieks grew deeper and louder, till the TO KILL THE PROPHET,'' sure of an acquittal if he could get a fair zens from a small wooden pjutform ger who had been dispatched to that sound resembled the roar of a mighty and Jaskson had been proved a murder- - hearing. standing near the Prophet's house. His city with the news, arrested him and tempest, or the slow, deep roar of the Presently he mounted er before the city comnit, and had beautiful chesnut horse, with his address gave everything into the lands took him back to Carthage, fearing that distant tornado. When the bodies arthreatened the lives of the Smiths. In brother and others rode up Main Street nf the mob, and, in fact, encouraged, by tne Mormons would arise and avenge rived at the mansion of Mrs. Emma compliance with the order of the mayor, to Masonic hail, where (he State anus its timidity, the spirit of lebillon the blood of t hi ir leaders before he could Smith, the people, numbering eight or Mr. Green, city marshal, wuh about a were delivered up. Ilyrum Smith was against the laws. He conclude! by place himself at a safe distance. At Car ten thousand, mostly Mormons, and in dozen men, went to the office of The even taller than the Tiophet, slim built warning the Prophet that if they mo- tbage he found all parties in the utmost close sympathy with the deceased, Expositor, rpmoved the pre s, pied the witn light hair and blue eyes, and ion lested any one their city, would be jired, consternation. The inhabitants were pressed about the house, and the loud type in the street, destroyed the issue of pressed me as beio;; a ouiet, well and their wives and children put to the hastily packing up and fleeing for life. wails of the mourners outside, and of he paper and a number iof objectional disposed man. He was sword Old raen, women and children, with curt lie family within, were truly terrible. talking with handbill, without noise or confusion, menu,, ana said ne knew ihey were in The wive" of Joseph and Ijyrurj and wafon load? cf furniture and bed Means to divert the multitude were fiand returned the, order to the major, danger, but they were in the hands of on foot a petition graving that the gov- ding, and droves of cattle,' hors am: nally in requisition, to aid in making with an endorsement setting forth tLeir a rotrct the' defencelcrs mules,' fled in the greatest confusion way for the removal of the bodies into just God, and He would do all thinp: ernor would aois A full account of the uff.tir was rigut. He seemed deeply impressed will; mob violence. j It'wus feigned by large from the Uood stained town. Dr. Rich the hr use; Judge Phelps, Dr tUchardn, .given to the public through the column the right of their und declared nutubcrs of woann, at: i w'.is receive! by trdi, Taylor, Hamilton, and a Mr. South- - aud Messrs. Woods and Reed the t "We n r as-ur- ed Mean-whil- -- on con-Je-enu- tat . camp-meetin- g able-bodie- ill-wi- ll - lei-se- heart-rendin- 1:1 . i . dark-skinne- d, d aide-de-ca- .ttl g, money-makin- g . ad . ... j . ' pot-iiiou- , . st . |