Show I 1 copy copyright right secured HISTORY OF JOSEPH SUITS smith DECEMBER derm 1842 dec thursday 22 1 I wats was about home read correspondence between dr dt richards and Genera fJames rjames arlington beni Bent benin BeniK iett lett tt and read german ith with alth elder orson llyde br shearer inquired the meaning of the little leaven leaveu which a woman hid ili in three measures of or meal I 1 replied it i alluded expressly to th last day daye when there should be but little faith on tile the earth and it should leaven the v whole hole world also there shall be safety in zion and jerusalem and in the remnants u whom the tile lord our god call the three measures refer directly to the priesthood truth springing up oil on a fixed principle to the tax oliree in the grand presidency confining the ora elbit a certai ii head on oil tile tiie principle of three friday 23 wrote R al young esq washington city abat I 1 would accept tile the proposals of john C walsh and give liim him 2500 for the lle ile lie north c west wesl quarter of section 8 6 north 8 west said land lying between my farm and the tile city saturday 24 at home afternoon realand read and revised my hist history oryo wi idi h secretary richards arid and walked with him to see sister lyon lyou who was alck tick liar lier ller bale died a few minutes before our arrival from there we went to br to compute expellee money for our journey to springfield having just borrowed for that purpose while there hr br richards asked if I 1 wanted anted a wicked man to pray for me I 1 replied yes if tile the fervent affectionate prayer of a righteous man ava ileth much a wicked man may avail a little when wilen pray praying ing for a righteous moan roan ther them b h none good but ONE the better a man trian is the tile inor more Whis his prayer will avail like tile the publican arid and the tha one was justified rather than the other showing atiat both were justified ui in a degree gree gret decree t the prayer of a wicked mail man may do a righteous in moan roan an good when it does the one who prays no good sunday 25 1 I wrote to orrin wright jun the Al manchester auchester england conference met slumbering numbering 1506 members including 33 elders eiders 87 27 priest priests 53 teachers and 19 deacon deacons under the presidency of elder thomas ward monday iday 26 in the tho morning held heid court and I 1 was as afterwards arrested by general wilson law 0 on n the or 01 governor carlin and elders henry G sherwood and willam william clayton went to cartilage carthage to obtain a writ of habeas corpus to tike me before the court at springfield general IA lam law gave me ili in custody of dr richards wilh with whom I 1 visited s ster morey who was severely afflicted we prescribed lobelia for her har among other things which is excellent ili in its place I 1 have llave learned the value of it by my own exper letice it is one of the tile works of or god but like tha power of god or any other good it becomes an evil when improperly used br morey gave we me a walking stick the llie body of which was from the tooth of the tha sperm w whale we and slid the top of whale ivory with willi all an interstice of mahogany oil on my return home I 1 found my ray wife emma ack she was wag delivered of a ason abon eon which did not survive its birth tile tha Hereford herefordshire shire conference england under the presidency of elder william kay met at Col coi walli numbering members 20 elders ciders 53 priests 22 teachers and 10 deacons dea code cope ty y 27 at 9 in the lle ile lie morning started stalled in custody of wilson law for springfield in cam clim patty with willi livrud smith winiard Riel virdt john taylor william marks marbs at ark s levi Af offit peter pren haws and slid lorin lorhn walker on oil our way to carth a ago gi we met Willit ni clyton myton and henry G sherwood awod who had llad obtained an on order for a writ of habeas corpus from frore the be master ili in chancery as esno no writ could issue issue afie clerk of court having been elected to tile the senate there was koisti lerable snow and tile the tra traveling veli vell 09 heavy but we arrived at my br samuels in plymouth a little after sunset and we weye were soon joined ined by edwatd hunter tag theodore theodora odore turley im dr tate talc and shadrack roundy I 1 sipped sapped with I 1 br william sm I 1 ithe llis far wily who wiio lived under tile tiie pame same P ame roof root slept with dr richards on a bugl bugg buffalo alo aio ian sain fain spread upon tipon tiie llie floor arid and dreamed ilat diet I 1 was by bv a beautiful stream of water and sw bauw a noble fish which I 1 threw out soon e aw a number moro more and thaw them out I 1 ater aler r wards saw a multitude of fish and threw out A a great abundance and sent for salt and salted I 1 them tiem I 1 23 28 the morning was wet we tar carlel started lar lel tel about 8 arid and arrived at mr stev trison erison it tavern in rushville at 3 in the tile afternoon iki ili t 20 1 10 in I 1 br dr williams wife wire who was nick rick went with u accompany d by aristr fri str r dur pur went wi with t 1 I 1 us from nauvoo to take bare eare care dahr I 1 spent I 1 a part of the evening T lul willi mr burlith brown and family and a part of or my eom com company in ili conversation respecting tiie tile repeal company a f gany charters arters I 1 old told them that to touch the tiie nou was no better than highway robbery thit that since the creation thre never had been a repeal of or a toi tol charter by god godt a arn aan arh or men roan and tint tiva I 1 never nver would submit to lowering Burc bArter bu but t they might t bring other chattel shartel char teis s ip to tolt t oil on my return to the tile tavern the brethren tow tob id 1 my height which was six feet mid and my rother rether hyrum the tiie same saine thursday 29 started early crossed i he the illinois river ot t 11 and arrived at captain Dut before 5 in tile the eve about 32 miles the weather extremely cold Geri geil general law asked why the sur sum un was called masculine and the moon feminine I 1 replied that hat the he root of masculine is ronger ger arld and of feminine weaker the sun gun is a governing planet to certain pi planets a nets while wiilie the mo moon on borro borrows s her er light from the suu sun and is less or wea weaker ker let the ibe government of dils Alis missouri sour sout redress the wytt wrongs he has done to the saints or let the curse follow them from generation gener allon alion to generation until they do when I 1 was washing going up to missouri in in company compans with elderry Elder eider Rigdon don bind find our families on oil an extreme cold day to go forward was 14 miles to a house anga argA backward nearly as far we applied to fill all he the taverns for admission in tali tail vain we were mormons cormons and could not be received such was the extreme cold that in one hour we ue must have perished we plead for our women and children ili in vain we counseled together and the brethren agreed to stand by me arid and we concluded that we might as well die fighting as freze freeze to death I 1 went into tavern and plead our baue to get admission the tile landlord said lie he could not keep us for love or money I 1 told him we must ard and would stay let the consequence be hat what bat it might for we must stay or perish tile tiie landlord replied we have b hard heard bard ard the mormons cormons are very bad people keople and tile the inhabitants of paris have llave coni corn ined bained not to have anything 9 to do with them thom or you might stay I 1 said to him we will stay but no thanks to you I 1 llave bave men enough to take the town and if we we must freeze we lii will ill freeze by tile the burnine burning of these houses the taverns were then opened ard aad we were accommodated and id received many apologies in the morning from the innab for their abusive treatment friday 30 started at 8 this his morning end and arrived at judge adams ili in springfield at ay 2 ili in file the afternoon where I 1 saw justin bur rug butte field esq ab district attorney who told me that judge pope had continued the court two r three days on oil account of my case and aud would cloe on tile tiie morrow and that he lie should try my case on its merits and not on oil any technicality sheriff pitman of adams county was ans in tile tiie place but would not say whether lie he had the oi original oil ginal final writ which had previously been demanded 4 d of the officers of adams coi col county Lutyj eing kiny and ri pitman I 1 gave mr butterfield a general history lii ili story of my misouri mi ali sourn souni persecution and it was agreed by him birn thail should be arestad on tile the had an interview with my broth er W blia rn smith who was a member of tiie the legislature at the time and spent the tiie evening with judge adams and the brethren from nauvoo we all lodged at judge adams ahila in conversation at judge adamas during the eve eveline even nine inc I 1 said christ and tile the resume ted saints faints will wit relan over the earth during tile the thou thon thousand sand fand years they tiley will not probably dwell upon the earth but wili will visit bigit it when hen they please or when wilen it is necessary to govern it there will be wicked men on the earth du during ring the thousand years the heathen nations who uil nil not dot come up to worship will be visited the judgments of god and must eventually be as destroyed from the earth salt suit vinegar ayd and pepper pi ren ven internally and arid plunging in the river when uben hen the paroxysm begin will ill lil cure cura the cholera saturday 31 at in the morning mr but herfi id cal cai called led and me that king 11 biad ad the or original noi nol writ and I 1 signed a petition to governor ford to issue a new writ that my case might be erkd tried thereon as well es as on the proclamation my illy pet petition ilion was granted and at I 1 11 I 1 I 1 was arrested thereon by A a deputy ep uty mr maxey ma in ili presence of mr my attorney who immediately wrote a petition to judge prope pope for i a writ of habeas corpus which I 1 signed end and at 1134 lise iii lii in tile tiie morning weft went before jud judge pope mr butterfield read my pilli and stated that the writ and warrant were dlf dif different Terent from the of tile hie governor of missouri Alis couri ile he then read governor fords warrant jasons wat Wai sons affidavit governor Rey ney reynolds nods requisition on the tile gover 1 nor of illinois and the tile proclamation of governor carlin showing that reynolds had lied lude made a false statement as ap reared appeared in bi lle ile lie tile to show bibow that smith sinith was in Alls missouri south lie jie also the authority for transportation of persons from frum one state slate to another rests tests oil on the tiie constitution and the law of congress we ask for hab liabos corpus the papers are fulse false and beccue that we carl can prove that joseph smith was WAI in this tilis state at the tim time e of tile the commission of ae crime th writ was returned and served in one minute and arid I 1 walked wald up to the bar I 1 mr Butter dutter neld read the hileas corpus and moved tile the I 1 court to take dill dili till I 1 c gould could have a bialk g which wis granted and although it was only a case of misdemeanor geiler geller generals Ms james adams and wilson law were balled for me in the die sum of 1 2 2000 1000 each earb and monday was set for trial i the coart room was crowded and on our cur t returning e as general law came to the top of th the one of tiie tile crowd ol observed served there goes S smith inith tile prophet and a good looking man he is 1 l I 1 and said another es damand a roscal as ever lived 11 hoium replied t and a good many ditto dilio yes gaid gald said aid the inan ditto dt duo to a god gud damn you and everyone every one that takes his part is ae as dadud a rascal as lie is 21 r when at the foot of the stairs general law said 1 I am the mail man and I 1 take his big part said the he man you are a dadud rascal too you a are arc re a lying scoundrel replied law and tile tiie mail man began to strip oss off his lii ill clatues and ran out in the street cursing and swearing su earing aud raising a tumult when mr prentice the marshal marshai interfered and with great exertion s quelled lle ile lie the mob much aluch credit is due mr prentice for his zeal to keep the peace wien when tb the rowdies had dispersed I 1 went wen with mr butterfield and dr richards to see governor ford who was sick eick lie ile told me roe lie bad a requisition from the governor for a renewal of persecution in ili the old case of treason against nils Alis missouri but he happened to know that it was all ali dead we dined ith mr butter Bulter buttergield field at the american house where the governor quartered after which we returned tt to the generals room in course of conversation he remarked ha he was no religionist I 1 told hini him I 1 had no creed to circumscribe cum scribe my rny mind therefore the people did not like me well said the governor from reports we had reason to think the mormons cormons were a people dif dit Terent different from other people having horns borns or something of the kind but I 1 find they look like other people pe ople opie indeed I 1 think mr smith js is a very good looking man mail at 2 in the afternoon I 1 returned to judge adams and appointed elders hyde llyde and taylor to preach in the representatives hall on the morrow judge douglas stated that it was possible to revoke political charters but not company charters I 1 argued that if a legislature has power to grant a charter for ten year it lias has u no 5 power to revoke it until after the expiration thereof the tle same game me principle will hold good for 20 or years and also for a perpetual charter it cannot be revoked in time join joan darby came cn me in and said he wa wai going to california with brewster Brew sier ster I 1 told him I 1 would say ray as cis the prophet said to II ezekiah go arid and prosper but ye shall not return in ill peace Br brewster euster may get set out for californi Calif lil ornu but lie will not get there unless somebody rome body shall pick him hirn up tip by the tile way feed him and help him liim along brewster showed me the tire manuscript ho lie had been writing I 1 of tile the lord lond and the tho lord told me the tile book was not true it was not of him it god ever called me or by my mouth he lie never gave revelations to that brewster boy or any of tle the tie brewster race I 1 this tilis afternoon a team ran away and went past the state house houge when the hue and cry was raised jo smith is li running away which produced gibat gi eat excitement and a sudden adjournment of the house of representatives A GOOD STORY colonel johnson in his talk to the people of trenton oid old told a capital story about a baptist minister by the nime of ducket who is Is a near relative of the he ex vice president it that haq thai been a adi adl di s below and a great fighter but aist before tile the battle batlle 0 of Tt thames aines atnes had suddenly changed his course and be come pious ile he however had a strong inclima in clina lion lon ion for he the camp and volunteered his service services 3 to assist the colonel against the enemy enemy on condition that lie he should have tile the privilege of oi preaching to the soldiers ierg lers in the camp comp the condition was gladly embraced and was wag installed as major maior under a sor for sort t of a ce from his command inz inc ci licer ile he was an energetic ic s irring dirring t man roan a ca capital pi I 1 at officer arid and a zealous preacher on the tile day before the battle batlle of thames the colonel dropped into ane one of his liis meetings ile he was holding forth with a 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