Show lt lao loa thy 41 4 IA 01 1 11 j HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH seith rt loani T j i r 71 t f r AUGUST 1842 lla ft 1 aug monday day dax 15 this forenoon several reports were in III circulation in ia the city thit that the on their heir way here arid arld tiie tile same is been stated by the stage driver but it is supposed that it is i s only a scheme 0 to o alarm the citizens emma presented tile the foregoing let law to which le responded as 0 I 1 or P 1 nauvoo city illinois august 15 E Js t afternoon 1842 lieutenant gereral general joseph smi smith dear tro pro F friend I 1 this morning received aline from m you ou bya by the man walker respect hig tile the guns gansl ac oile ode of them is in the stone shop shoo by the Nauvoo house one I 1 expect to get put inlo mr nir ivins barn and the other I 1 cannot get tinder under lockne key in any place I 1 know of yet liui buiji will have them taken the best care of that 1 1 I can call received from the hand band of your li lady ayour sour your orders at length respecting matters and thin I 1 am happy indeed to receive such you for your views on these subjects aret amet precisely my own I 1 do respond with my whole heart to every sentiment you leave have so nobly and so feelingly r express press d and while my heart Ibe beats its i 1 or this tirs handa hand which now writes is ahe able to irai iral draw and wield a sword you may depend on it being a at t your service in the glorious cause of liberty and aud truth ready in a morn moments ellis eilts warning toi tot defend the rights of man both civil and religious gio aio s our common rights and peace is all we ask waud laud we will ivill use every peaceable means in 2 our 1 power 0 er to enjoy them but our rights tights we wi must az stade stave peace pence we must have if welli we have ave avo to toight fight for atheni I 1 thresaa Thre baa bas haa nothing worthy of notice come to my khow knowledge ledge today toda to da day the gentlemen officers are a unhappy and out with themselves more than with finy body else they see we have the advantage adan tage of them and that they cannot provoke us to break the law and I 1 think they knowis they do that we will ue use them up th the tha ight way I 1 guess gues they ee that thai in our patie patience ilce lice we va posse possess our souls and I 1 know that if they sied shed or ot cause to ba be shed a drop of or blood of one of the las least amongst us that the lives of shall atone for lor it with the help heip ile lit lp of our god gad lse lse Ise hid bid nd fid you yon the ardi ordnance istrice that was passed by th the court medial on saturday last jast for you your r cpr approval ayal or otherwise as it cannot become a law without out your approbation I 1 atso also send yott 5 oh tho the returns of or the hie election ele cllon clion for major general as a you ordered the tre edition yon you will V if pleas order the tile of th the cagl legion n ool Col colonel onel sloan to for a assion Is sion slon with the warmest feelings of my heart I 1 remain most respectfully yours A WILSON LAW LA i pt 15 Y afternoon 6 I 1 have llave just jil st learned Pit trilan got aletter about and got re it and started sorted oft off as he lie said for carthage ca iata itta but but I 1 think for quincy it tip up fota bad ja W L 3 abow abou bo k 1 l gark ark girk brother woolley returned from Cirt age nage and stated that he be hd conversed with cha ngy robi rohl robinson who informed him that he halg hali ha fl ascertained s elta eila ined that the tile sheriffs were determined to and if they bouli not succeed theiu theio salik they would e ouid bring a force sufficient jo to asarch every hou house se in the city and if they not land ml me there they thes would wound search the state cs get pl j As abe te orn ork stated the left ift fhe the city about 1 au I J IV ock I 1 sa saying ing inc they were going to carthage cartilage but abut J bolley did not meet them on the roa zoa ro adIt is believed they ere gone to quincy 11 thi ini 11 P consequence of these reports it was con sideri that same of the he brethren should go igl me accordingly abou about t nin nine ia 1 mah george miller william liw law Amasa Lyman john D parker newel K whit ne yaNd william clylon ceylon started by different erent rou teson testo foot and came to the place bhele I 1 was when the tiie statement was made to me I 1 tile tiie thecia alv expecting I 1 was no longer jiin ie butuson But lut upon hearing the whole statement from nt I 1 said salil I 1 should not leave vave my pre pr ment yet I 1 did not think I 1 was discovered did I 1 think I 1 was any more unsafe than beford before before ii 1 I discovered a degree of excitement and agitation agitate pirl pill r manifest man irest in those who wiio brought the r port audI took occasion occa siou to gently reprove a al lire lore present swit for letting report excite thein them and ad adv i ed to suffer themselves thom selve seive to be wrought upon balany report but to maintain sll sit even till daunted nind wind aich mich aae oie gie gle began to gather courage andall fers fors were soon subsided and arid the gred greatest test union und mid good feeling prevailed amongst all ell present various subjects then w ivere e re conversed counsel giten which was wab felt to be bothi seasonable and salutary after conversing a la in the grove the company retired into the house and sal pat tind iid lid conversed until about two iwo at which time they departed evidently vi dently satisfied and much encouraged by the interview eds ess u J the for the tini tint es and caious Sa isso gous ious Us t pea pet j if fye afta mill lire godly i iu u jesue jesus ye bhail suffer persecution was the solemn proclamation made by one of the ancient servants of god a prophecy that has received its fulfillment fulfilment in all ages that has been known arid and understood by all saints and that has been en graven upon the memories of all till the fai fal faithful for while blood and arid fire and sword and torture have been brought into requisition against the saint saints whilst chains chalus 1 and in d fetters and death have baen been employed emp loved and mid their sig sightings sigh bings ings and mourn ings haqq hav been peen mafte aftel on the wings of the wind their solitary hours and midnight cries their distress and calamity bave have been disregarded this eternal truth has re echoed in their ears it lias has touched their inmost soil soul soul soui it has lias been written on the tablet of their hearts if ye will lve live ive godly in christ jesus ye shall suffer persecution ever since the form for nion malion cf of the church afi jesus christ of latter diy daiy saint calumny re rei 1 and persecution have flown plentifully i into their lap detraction stander slander falsehood and misrepresentation have been gratuitously heaped upon them they have been by vexatious law suits organized mobs and ille illegally rill gAIl 1 treated b by militia they have been imprisoned imprison el whip whipped pale pole tarred and feathered and driven from their homes they have had their property confiscated and arid have suffered banishment exile and death deuth for their religion missouri Misso irl iri has been one of or the principal actors in the scene she the lias bas made many a wife a and alid many a child an air orphan the tears teats orthe odthe oppressed have lenti plentifully fully watered her soil the cries of or her robbed and spoiled have rung through her valleys and been re echoed from hill to hill many a weary pilgrim born down with oppression and weary of life has laid himsl himself if down to seep sleep in the arms of death while tile the blood of the innocent has drenched her soil and never till the trump of god shall sound the sleeping dead shall arise the books be opened add and it nd tile the secret history of peoples and nations be bek unfolded i ill the amount of their sufferings suffering 1 be fully known that day will unfold so enes of wickedness misery miser y and oppression and deeds of inhumanity a and n d lood blood food that the most eloquent cannot depict lle ile the lie pencil of the limner clinine portray and that is beyond the language to unfold scenes orin ofin of misery isery of woe arid and human sum sun suffering ring dipped in the malice of the most fiend fiendish lib ish hate tile the cup of misery ha ba been rung out and they have drunk it to the very dreg dregs missouri frantic with rage rages and not yet filled fit I 1 d with ith alth blood wishes now to follow tier bleeding victims to their exile and satiate herself with blood and not satisfied with staining her own escutcheon she wishes to decoy the thel noble nobles generous and patriotic sons of illinois to deceive them thern with appearances to draw them into ber her snare that she may be sharer in lit her crime crimes and participate in her guilt and tend stamp with eternal infamy her character wo we have already to blush for the gullibility of many of her editors who feel desirous to fin the deadly flame and a stain ain aln their hands with wilh lier tier foul deeds dae ds we would advise ad vise vile such lo 10 halt to pause for a moment to reflect upon what thy th y are ire doing have you not witnessed their wanton persecution their cruel oppression their deadly ate have you not loudly exclaimed agit against such proceed proceeding ing inq stood forth in defence of republicanism and find as true patriots defended the rights of man and can call you now advocate a cause that would attempt to creven or even moot the tiie question of making an innocent virtuous people tremble at the sight of gathering hosts who is it that hai made his that thai joseph smith has been accessory to shooting him himl I 1 governor boggs of missouri a man who three y ears ears sars ago 6 issued s aed all an order to exterminate fifteen thousand me men r women and chi children laren in fit republican america an Aw erica a man trean who sanctioned and jabed militia lor for that effect a maii matl man who whon lias bas been til ill thi cause of tile tiie death of scores of innocent people and has actually been a wholesale murderer tili Till thesis sis tile the man who prefers the charge a man 1 I ile lit har hns long ago apo ago violated his hia constitutional gath dath we wee bould vo uld deprecate at all times the commission 0 be diabolical it crime astvat as that of murder if M upon onn our greatest enemies and would con eon content t rit ourselves with letting the tile lord lake vengeance ear ce into his big own hands yet we would serious seriously iv ask if his statement concerning joseph smith 11 ll I 1 ia probable or even possible under the circumstances cumi cum stances lances menth manth ned by him coald governor 13 boggs kag 1 S 6 swear wear thit th it joseph smith was accessory before the fact when lie lias has not seen been him film for three vears and ani joaeph smith WS lias not bae ben th the state of 0 missouri for that time whatever his fil s belief beiler be about his hia being enga ed in to the piot plot lie coilio not swear to it concerning rockwell nock Rock will wiil lie lio was wag in missouri and it is reported that he ii 3 gonei gona there to prove clear but we should thine thinly that missouri is the last place to go to for justice us nc we dont think that khe she is of administering v it to the mormons Mor Mot monk moni mons mods jl alia must list bo however wever first atone for her tier bloody deeds beds and refund to them what she site lias robbed rubbed them ot 0 before their confidence can be restored 1 li her tier justice or righteous righteousness nesi but bat we auld isk ask 1 is the there reli zerl no one to murder men but hut mormons cormons Mor mons are not assassins stalking her tier daily let the history of the frequent lre Ire quent murders in st loula and slid other places inan in mis sour soui answer but reain again who doe dots not know that Boggs has fins been leen iu lit frequent cultic cul ties ei ollier people that he hi hus bus s been on the point of duelling buelling du elling with willi senators senator and that his life has been frequently threatened an I 1 that 1 lot not by mormons cormons Mor mons this tilis we are prepared to prove without saying more upon this subject we will proceed to aise give a history of nf tile the arrest oil on monday the ath instant general smith was arrested upon a warrant under tile tiie signature of governor carlin in accordance as stated itil with fill a call from governor Rey ney reynolds nolas bolas of missouri upon the tile affidavit of ex governor boggs mr rock kil wll 11 was arrested at tile the same ti time lime me as principal pd there was no evasion of this call cadi call cail for I 1 the lie lle persons of smith and rockwell th the e municipal court however issued a writ of 1 corpus according to the constitution and city chir charter ter this writ demanded the bodies of smith and rockwell to be brought before the said court but lut the fhe he officers in charge of these men refused to obey I 1 its I 1 s call though after some deliberation they tiley iet let them in charge of tile the city marshal without the tiie original A writ arit rit by which they were arrested and by which only they tiley could conid be retained and returned back to governor carlin for further instruction st thus smith and i were free from th arrest as the marshall Mars marb lial ilal had ilo iio authority to hold them in custod custody v some two or three days after the aforesaid officers returned for the purpose of executing the governors order without paying attention to tile the writ of habeas corpus issued by the municipal court I 1 but aies ales irs smith and rockwell were absent in a free rree ee government every persons rights and are the same no extraordinary process ran can issue legally nor no extrajudicial extra judicial act be required justice jl ji stice slice like her representative goddess is blind to appearances and favors no one in this point of view then let us legally examine the case in que question mr boggs makes an affidavit ia in missouri and charges one 0 P rockwell with shooting lilburn W boge bogg with intent to kill oil oh the night of the sixth of may 1842 and that the said rockwell had fled from jelics to the state of illinois shooting with intent to kill and mr boi gs alive two or three months after to swear to it may be set down as its insufficient grounds for a writ from the governor of one state to demand a person as a fugitive from justice in lit nother another state for aught that appears to the contrary he might have hot shot in his own defence and bo be justifiable as the charge is not grounded on the wilful malicious or felonious intent without the fear of god before his eyes 0 to o murder the affidavit is therefore not sufficient for the apprehension detention and tion of the said rockwell to the courts of missouri misouri here we deny that tile the 0 P rockwell arrested ia is the one intended in the writ this rockwell Rk Il being not guilty if mr boggs knew of himself the fact that mr al rockwell shot at him with intent to kill why did he delay the tile prosecution some two or three months if he obtained his knowledge from it or third person why not avail himself of their heir affidavits in the body of the writ again mr lir boggs bogga charges one mr jr joseph smith with being beina accessory before the fact to an n assault wilh intent to kill en cn the night of the sixth of may 1842 1841 this must allude to some other joseph smith as the joseph smith of his city was in fit nauvoo oil on the aforesaid sixth of may 1842 and off oft the next day he was ut at his post aa as gen of tile the nauvoo legion nor can I 1 it it be proved that lie he has been in tile the state ce 0 missouri lissi ouri for the last three years but for the sake of argument admit the language of the writ andl and andt joseph smith as all an |