Show sa s1 no a iff copy 5 HISTORY OF JOSEPH smitha reith serre marn sept rep fieldly 9 at 10 pm I 1 received a very r y interesting visit from emma akasu lyman georae george 1 rge A smith aud and wilson law I 1 counseled george A smith arld ond amasa amnon jym dyman lyman ali nit to stay in illinois and preach in the 9 principal cities pities against and 0 to o notify tire the twelve it was my wish they shoud should also labor in illinois after a conversation converst ilion of two hours I 1 accompanied tile the hir hit brethren ethren arld and emma to my houses house ir remaining rema inin few nil nii minutes to offer it n heads of my el sleeping ephia children then called a few minutes at the lle ile lie house of my ivy cousin george georgi at A smith on my way to my retreat at edward lluu liun hunters john D parker porker accompanied geias euard guard brigham Brig harn young you up lifeber C kimball ammon lyman george A smith arid and charles C rich declared to the city council their intention of absence for ahr three months or more and arid others were appointed to 10 eilf fill their places during their Pbs obb bence absence hence ence john P green M lyman dyman man wight and william law absent arid their places were filled ailed tile the object of tiie the absence of these bre thiren was 0 to o preach the gospel in different states stales and show up tile the wickedness and arid falsehood of the apostate lohn john C bennett I 1 AN ORDINANCE relative to the returns of or writs of habeas corpus was wag passed by the city council as follows an ordinance relative to the return of writs of habeas corpus SEC sic 1 bo be it and it ts Is ll 11 hereby reb ordained by the ltv alv rity council of the city of narvoo that the municipal court in it issuing writs of habeas corpus may make the same returnable forthwith SEC 2 this tilis ordinance to take essect effect ard be in forc efrom and arid after its passage pa parsed sed ped sept otil 1842 1641 GEO W HARRIS I 1 I 1 president pro tem tea james jamrs SLOAN recorder started on his mission saturday 10 lo heber C kimball george A smith an and dAmasa amasa lyman started on oil their mission and proceeded prore ded as far as lima where they met brigham young who was preaching to a congregation 1 saturday 10 was the training of the companies of 0 the nauvoo legion and arid lest I 1 should ie lie observed by the multitude passing and repass ing I 1 kept very still after dirk my wife sen sent I 1 u messenger arill slid requested me rrie to return home as she i thought hought I 1 would be us pis safe cafe there as any auy whre where and I 1 went safely home undiscovered I 1 sunday iii lii 11 1 was at home all day my letter I 1 of the ath of september was wag read to 0 o the he saints faints at the grove near the temple the high priests quorum met several had gone on oil missions others were preparing to go but few were present bertand Ben tand and the meeting adjourned sine tine die elders P B young H C kimball G A smith and A nd amass avran addressed a large assembly iu fit the grov Gro grovern rein vein in lf lann n t in to the reports bf or john C bennei bennet Ben neil neit L i mondayla Mond aylS 12 to the editor of the times mines and seasons dear Br brother otherl having commenced our mis slon pion ron esterday we held field our first conference at brother igaac isaac morless Mor Alor leys we had a good time khe the tr lr ethren here hire are are aye in good spirit sn irit we ordained 19 elders and baptized 12 we expect next saturday and sanday sunday lo 10 hold a it two days meeting in begg the th and tind ISO instant on oil the at payson the I 1 at ad of er at ideals n tit vale the esth sill october at pittsfield tile the october at A appie apple aple creek in green C county from thence we shai shall proceed to lack jack sonville and springfield if you yo please notice ore oie ilo iro lie above in your roar paper for tile the llie benefit or those orie trie friends scattered abroad vu yours r s in tiie tile evert everlasting ustine isling covenant BRIGHAM youg J II 11 C KIMBALL molle koile morley mortey y r settlement merrt sept I 1 was a home alt all day in fit ith brothers Adams and rogers and counse coune efing flag brother I 1 adams 6 to i a letter to the he governo governor it in the be I 1 emma received governor carl curlings a letter ietter ater of the ath 7 th instant in slant ta tu edday e 13 at atheme home all day settled with edwsrd hunter i wednesday day 14 at llomo mr gave cavo me a deed of one half his landed property in Keo xeo keokuk kiik kirk though it will be a long iong time lime if ever lefore before it will be of any benefit to me had a consultation with calvin A warren esq in the tile evening I 1 received lip the following letter I 1 from ge general james arlington bennet I 1 arlington house sept 1 1842 1642 lieutenant general smith dear sir mrs smiths letter to mrs MM bennett bennem containing a very lucid account of dr john C bennett has been received and nd the only thing concerning film 9 I 1 recard regard of importance is that you to nude unde cessare to expose him I 1 that you y 0 a had ead let him depart in peace because the p cuhlic ubbe generally th think no tit better of either the one party or the other in consequence of the pretended o with which the newspapers have teemed but then on the longrun longren long iong run you will have hava the advantage adv auta anta ge inasmuch na as the universal a notoriety bilich you are ore now acquiring will nill be ile lie the means of ot adding to kauvo nauvo o three hundred fold that you ought tobe tabe to be given up 0 to o the tender mercies of missouri llo iro ornan linan ill in his hig senses will allow bs tip you would bo be convicted on the shadow of evidence when the peoples passions and prejudices are so strongly enlisted against you arid mid under such a state of things how easy it would be to suborn witnesses Viti jesses against you who would seal serl your our fute fate add to this too the tire great difficulty under which an impartial jury if such could be b found would labor in their attempt to render reider an honest holics verdict being coerced by surrounding public prejudice and aud malice and yet ns fis you are now circumstanced it will not do to oppose force to 0 o force for your protection ns nit this hi tit tile the present c se would be against the 1 state tand and would ultimately bring brieg to ruin all those qa concerned 11 berned your only plan plau I 1 think will be to keep out ont of uie hie way u alil OV tins excitement shall have leave subsided as ag from all I 1 call can understand even from the tile dr himself hemsell f there is no ro evidence on which an honest jury lury coll coli could conid id find a verdict against you and this opinion I 1 have expressed to 0 o him I 1 most ardently wish wih wib that you had one hundred thousand true men at nauvoo and nud that I 1 had the command of them limet limes and things would mauld soon alter I 1 hope to see the day belore before I 1 die that sue aue an army will dictate thries from nauvoo to the ener enemies nies of mormon people I 1 say this in latha iatha the most perfect candor as I 1 have nothing 1 to gain by the mormons cormons Mor mons nor am I 1 a mormon in creed yet I 1 regard them in as favorable a light and a little more so us as I 1 do any other sect in fact I 1 am a philosophical chri christian stian and wish to see an un entire change in it the tile religious world I 1 have been long a mormon in sympathy alone and probably ca can it never be one tn fit any other way yet t feel that I 1 am the friend of the people as I 1 think them honest and sincere in fit thir dhir faith and these I 1 know as good and honorable men is as any other professing christians dr bennett has been the means of bringing mo me before before your people you will therefore sees seey see ser I 1 for or tits his act 1 I 1 am in fit honor bound to say peace to ids ladues ladnes 11 to act otherwise would be ungrateful and dishonorable both of which qualities are strangers stra bigers figers to my nature nevertheless by leaving hini film us as lie ir I 1 is I 1 can still be your friend for be assured that nothing I 1 have seen yet from his bis pen peu has enllie in llie tile least altered my opinion of you I 1 well know what allowance to make in a such euch 1 camps I 1 doctor bennett and bachelor are now delivering lectures in new york against you and your doctrines and asserted practices at narvoo auyor elder foster told me ino this hig his foren forenoon that the reals seals have been torn toru to pieces out of his church in canal street streets and that the congregation b had to move to another place I 1 intimated to you in my last lisai hat that bennett of the herald was abolt to publish conjointly with 1 I 1 the dr his book of exposures but since have learned that jofs itis it Is about to come out ju in boston I 1 he ile expects to make a fortune out of it and I 1 presume expects lie lle to needs it lt but I 1 feel fee sure thatis that it will make converts to ahe the mormon faith ile he has hns borrowed largely from com morris lascivious poems gulant general arld and authorized author ired by py you has hat ip feared in tile the herald ordering me to repair to nauvoo to take lake command of or the legion and to bring with me g gen J G bennett which states that if the be persisted in blood mut must be setd shed I 1 have llave assured bennett of the herald that I 1 deem it a it alix but lie insists upon it that itis it is genuine my sly reply to it has appeared today to day in that paper 11 I 1 have there stated that I 1 have written whitted to gov carlin for instructions this is i not go so it ia Is only a rud rub i on file jile whole you ou will only be made a it greiter greiler reater renter prophet and a greater man a great eipp tipp e by trie trio infliction and consideration of your good friends t r my respects with those of mrs B to lo your jady lidy I J am dear sir bir irv your our sincere friend jales james jamis ARLINGTON BENNE bennet 71 1 this letter was wag placed in the tile hands af pf general generl nugh Hugh mcfail mcfall who immediately wrote a it berut refutation of tile the clause concerning him eif elf helf to governor cm carlin alin and also alto also one for the wasp the general order orden wa ta not wrote by mcfall neither either had he a I 1 knowledge of its existence until shown to him in the letter it was evidently got up by our enemies to increase excitement and anger and is barely another addition to tire tile many slanderous reports put in simulation byell bleil and designing men thursday 15 in council colin coin cil cit with C CA A warren eq esq also alo blo bio counseled uncle john smith and brother daniel C davis davig to move immediately to keokuk aud help build up a city friday 16 at home brother rogers who was painting my lik ilk likeness enesp enear saturday 17 I 1 wab was at home wilh brother rogers who continued pa intire my portrait ulder elder ider william clayton wrote governor carlin a I 1 long lone letter showing ui up the tiie missouri persecution u nty ill in their tr trub true ie colors ship hip I 1 slaney sidney sailed failed from front liverpool for new or bant with ISO paints sunday 18 at hoine in time tire evening received avisia a visit from mv my mother monday 19 and tuesday 20 with brother rogers painting at my hoube hous i wednesday 21 in the large room over the store in 11 the evening had a visit from elder john talor taylor who is just st recover recovering 1119 from a iong long co and arid very severe altac of f sickness I 1 counseled elder taylor conce concerning rilling the printing office removing one press to keokuk ac 22 at home ur arranging arranging ranging with concerning moving printing press ess to keokuk buying paper ac P 1 23 at home by elder taylor colonel geore georae miller was elected brigadier brig idler general of the lat cohort nauvoo legion lo 10 fill the vacancy of general wilson lav law promoted saturday 24 the tire legion was called out for general parade and reviewed re dewed by general law in tile the evening lieutenant colonel colonell stephen markham was elected colonel of the regiment cohort to nii nil the tile place 0 of colonel george georga miller promoted and captain john D parker elected to nil fill his place and captain thomas rich to hll hil the place of major wightman deceased at home had a visit from old mr murdoch and lidy concerning some land ac at st jos sunday 25 at the grove spoke more than two hours chiefly on the subject of my persecution if oil all ship ledfod sailed from liverpool for new orleans with saints monday 26 the office of notary public for til ill the 0 city of nauvoo was created by the city co council uncil unell and iames james mines sloan sloin was elected A sea seal for the municipal court was ordered by the council tuesday 27 and wednesday 28 at home nothing of importance transpired ship bleary sailed railed from liverpool for new orleans with paints faints sept 1842 resolved that william be excluded from the fellowship of this the first regular baptist church of the city of alleghany allegheny Alleg liany hany allegheny alleghany Alleg hany county pennsylvania for embracing and maintaining a it heresy to witt wit doctrines peculiar to a late sect called mormons cormons or day miracles can call be wrought through the instrumentality of faith that special revelations from god are now given to men and that godly men are now endowed with willi the tile gift of or prophecy su such h as to foretell future event events william benson denson ch clerk deacon john jolin beck beek was wait moderator of tiie tile meeting 5 thursday 29 this day emma began to be sick bick willi rever fever consequently I 1 kept in the house with her all day F friday ri d a 30 emma Is no better I 1 was with he her r al all ali I 1 Z day dy a saturday october I 1 this morning I 1 had bad a very severe pain in my left ifft side and was not able to be about emma sick as usual I 1 hali had previously sent for the tha temple committee to balance their accounts and liow how the temple business was going on some reports had bad been circulated that the committee was not making a righteous disposition of property consecrated the building of the fhe temple and there appeared to be some dissatisfaction amongst the tile laborers after care carefully billy examining the tile accounts and enquiring into the manner of the proceedings edings edinga of the committee I 1 expressed myself perfectly satisfied with them and arid their works the ba books ok were balanced between the trustee and committee am M t I 1 ee arid and lle ile lie the wages of or all agreed upon I 1 kaid mid to toha the brethren that I 1 was amenable to the state for the faithful discharge of my duties as trustee tn in trust trusts and that the tho temple committee were accountable to me and to no other authority and they must not take notice of any complaints from any source but let the corm corn plaints plaines be made to me if any were needed and I 1 i would make things right the parties separated perfectly satisfied and arid I 1 remarked that I 1 would tave have kave have a notice published stating that I 1 had examined their accounts aud and was satisfied ac it was wag also agreed that the recorders office should be moved to othe the temple for the convenience of all in this days wasp I 1 bolic nolic d the tile following letter from elder pratt city of nauvoo ill ili sept ag 1842 mr editor dear sir I 1 noticed in the last weeks weaks wasp a lett r from dr R D foster written from new york city which states that dr john C bennett had llad declared in fit said city that iw IK had received a letter from me and from mv wife and that we were preparing to leave bind and expose mormonism I 1 wi di through tile ike lie medium of your paper to say to the public that said statements are |