Show i I 1 copyright secured Secure dl I 1 HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH ju JUNE juie ie 1813 at A 5 pm I 1 went to the grove and delivered ah air addres address to the public of which the following is 19 a brief synopsis as reported reposed by dr willara richards and anti elder wilford woodruff Woodi the congregation is large I 1 shall require attention I 1 discovered what the emotions of the people eople were oil on my arrival at this city and I 1 E have ave come here to ta say how do you do to all parties par iles lies and anil I 1 do now at this time say to all how do you do ido I 1 I 1 meet you with a heart full of gratitude to almighty god and I 1 presume you all fel fet the same I 1 am well I 1 am ain hearty I 1 hamly hardly know how to express my feeling feelings I 1 feel as strong strong as a giant pant I 1 pulled sti ks wil wit wilh h the men coding coming along and I 1 pulled up with one hand the strongest stron strongest west vest man that could be found then two men tra tried but they could not pull beup me up and I 1 continued con finned tinned to pull mentally until I 1 pulled missouri to nauvoo but I 1 will pass from that subject j there has hag been great excitement in the file couri court country tr simce since joseph 11 Rpy Rry and harmon T 1 anon itson took ine lne me but hut I 1 have lave been cool and dis dia through the whole thank god 1 I am aia rib lib now wa a prisoner irethe in the arands of the municipal court cult of and awand not in the hands of mis blis edinia in I 1 it is is not so much my object to tell of my affliction trials and arid troubles as to speak of the writ op corpus so that the minds of all rw y be corrected it has been asserted by the great and wise wlad men lawyers and others that our powers and igal logal tribunals alenot to be sancti sanctioned c ned by the authorities pt of the state and accordi gly Ay theft W want t t to 0 make tt it lawful to drag away I 1 innocent ee t ottem from frow theft famales barail ea and friends and h lver put to death nath by ungodly men for the r refigio relative to our city city charter courts light of habeas corpus ac I 1 wish you etl eti to know and publish that we have all powei power am add if any man from frona this tirla time forth says anything iny thing tu the con travy tra ira cast it into his lids teeth aniere ii 3 a se secret bret cret in m thi this if it there is not power rower in in our charter and courts then thre is not power fower in the state of illinoia illinois nor in the congress ae or constitution of the united state stater for the united states slates gave galie gaire unto uio minch he her constitution or charter aner and add illinois gave unto nauvoo her charters chatters ceding pur vested rights which sije she has ira fra no right or power to take from us all the power was hil fil she gave to and and any ady man that says to the contrary u w a fool the municipal court coart has hag all tie the power to i lsne ane ne add aad writs 0 habeas corpus within tho the limits of th s city that the le legislature can confer this thi 3 e city has all aft the power poyer po ven yer that the state courts hat 1 rid rie was given by the same authority the I 1 legislature Il ture I 1 want wint you to hear bear and learn 0 israel tbt is for the happiness and peace of this city and people it if our enemies are determined t to oppress press us antl and deprive us of our cons constitutional n a rights aid privileges as they have done and if the authorities that are on the earth vili will not nol sustain austain us 3 in our rights nor give us that protection which the laws and constitution of the united state stater and of this state guarantee unto W fsr efin we will claim them from a higher power powei from heaven heal en yea from god almighty I 1 have dragged thee these me men n here by my band and will do it again but rut I 1 swear I 1 will not deal so mildly with them thein again the time tinte bascome has come when forbearance ts is no vo longer a virtue and if you or I 1 are again taken unlawfully you are al at liberty to give locse loose to blod blood and thunder but be cool be deliberate be wise act with almighty power and when you pull do it make a sweepstakes for orce my lot has always been cast among the warmest hearted people in every time of ti trouble buble friend even among strangers have been raised up unto 6 me and assisted me the time lime has come when the veil is torn ool from the state of illinois and its citizens have delivered me from the state of M missouri is friende that were raised u up unto me would have spill split their lifes blood to ue have torn me from the hand hands and wilson if I 1 had asked them but bul L I 1 told them bliem not riot I 1 would be delivered by lh power of or god and generals generalship hip bip an I 1 I 1 have hav drought brought allese tahe men to nauvoo artl ard committed them to her from froni whom I 1 was torn not as prisoners in chatis chams but as prison eis cis of kur kun kindness irless friess hare treated them kindly I 1 have hav hai e had the file lege of rewarding them good nood for evil took look me unlawfully treated me rigorously strove to deprive me ct cf my right and would have run rui with me into missouri to have been murdered I 1 i provider Provi deLce ce had not interposed but now they ar r in my hands and add I 1 have arken them into house sat them at the head of my table able aai pla placed before them the best which my hous hons afforded and they were waited upon by my iny wife whom they deprived ot of seeing me ched when I 1 wa wm taken I 1 have no doubt but I 1 shall be discharged b the municipal court were A ere I 1 before auy any goo tem tribunal I 1 should be discharged as the mis Mii sour writs ire are illegal aid arid ald goodford rood good for nothing they are an without form and vold void 1 but before I 1 will berr this unhallowed perse cution any longer before I 1 will be dragged away acain again amoni among my enemies for trial I 1 will spill the last drop of blood in my veins and will see all my enemies ii IN HELL to bear it any any longer would be a sin and I 1 will not bear it any longer shall we bear it any loner longer ioner one universo un universo ivers ivens 4 NO ran ahr through all the vast assembly like ilke ii ke a loud lood peal of thunder 1 I wih wish the lawyer lawver who saya says we have no powers in nauvoo kiy may be choked to death with his own words dont employ lawyers or pay them money for their knowledge for tor I 1 hav have e learnt they dont know anything I 1 know more tuan they all go ye into all the world and preach the gospel 1 he that believeth beli eveth in our chartered rights may come coma here and be saved and he be that does not shall remain in ignorance if any lawyer shall S say 1 there thene 1 ere is more power in in other places and charters tz i with vi h respect to habeas corpus than in nauvoo believe it mt not I 1 have converted chiq candidate for fur congress pointing to cyrus walker esq that the krisht of habeb habeas 9 corpus is included in our charter it he continues converted I 1 will vote for him I 1 have been with these lawyers and they have treated me well wel but I 1 am ain here in nauvoo and the Missour missourians ians lans too I 1 got here by a lawful writ of habeas corpus issued by the master in chancery of lee county and made returnable to the nearest tribunal in the fifth judicial cial clai district having jurisdiction to try and determine such writs and here is that tribunal just as it should be however indignant you may feel about the I 1 high band hand of oppression which has been raised a ainest against me by thee these men use not the hand of violence against them for they could not be prevailed prevailed upon to come here till I 1 pledged my honor L ngn and my life that a hair of their heads should not ba be hurt will you all sli my pledze pledge plede and ihus thus preserve my horion one universal yes burst from the he assembled thousands this is another proof of your attach attachment me to me I 1 know how ready leady yoi are to do rig night right you have doup great things and manifested your youn your love towards mein flying to my assistance on this occasion I 1 bless you L in li i the name of the lord with all the blessing bla bia sings of heaven and earth you are capable of enjoying I 1 have learned we have nio tio need to sulter suffer as w u e have heretofore we can call others to our aid I 1 know gaty will bless all good men he will bless you and the time tide has come when there will be such a flocken flocking to the standard of liberty as never has been or shall be hereafter ter ier what an em era has commence commenced dl oan oar enemies have prophesied that we would establish our out religion li y the sword is it trw no but if miss missouri oud will not riot stay her cruel band it ic her unhallowed persecutions against UP u I 1 restrain you ou not any I 1 longer er I 1 aa say in the ri name me of 11 beius egus esus christ kongth by the rhe e authy authority arity of the holy priesthood I 1 this day turn the key that opens the heavens to restrain you no longer from this time forth I 1 will lead you to battle and it if you are not afraid to die and feel disposed to spill your blood in your own d defense yon you wil wll I 1 n not t offend m me be not the aggressor ressor bear until they shike you on the one cheek then offer oner the other oilier and ard they will be sure to strike that then thin defend yourselves and god will bear you yoa off and you hall stand forth clear before his tribunal if any citizens cf of liti illinois noli say we w s shall shail h all ail not have our treat free them as sh sti angers and not friends arid and let thena theca go to hell bell and annl ani be damned some same say they w 11 mob us let them mob and be it if we have to give up tip our chartered rights 83 cleges and freedom which our fathers fought bled and died for and which the constitution ution tion of the united states and of this state guarantee unto us we will do it only at the point of the sword and bayonet many lawyers contend for those things which are against the rights of men and ican only excuse them because of their ignorance ce go forth i and advocate the laws and rights cf of the people ye law lawyers s if not dont get into my mx h ands hands or ler under the e ash lash of my lawyers say the lowers jowers powers of the nauvoo charter are art dan dangerous gerus zerus but I 1 ask is the constitution of the united states state or of this state dangerous no neither are the charters granted unto nau nat by the legislature of illinois dangerous and those who say they are are fools we have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the united stated of america Americ 3 and our charters grant mosouri and all wicked men usen raie rale the he hue bue and cry against us and are not satisfied some acal cal cai aspirants of his this sate state also are raising hue lue arid and cry that the he powers in tie the tle cir clr cl arten granted unto 0 the city of nauvoo are dangerous arm ami although the general assembly have conferred thim thom upon our city yet the whine ia lii raised repeal them take them away like tire boy who sapped off his jack jark tite tife ald and and ard then cried daddy diddy I 1 have llave sold hyjck ick ack knife got sick cf of my bargain Far b ir gain gani and I 1 want to get it again but how are they tiley goin going to ha help heip themselves 1 raise mob and what can ma do ir in the he midst of bf K no better bettor than s z huber huner in the claws of a bear if mobs com upon yoli you ariy airy more here dang your youn gaikens them we dont want adv excitement but aftel we have done all we will rise nse up tor like ilke ike and break off the hellish yoke that oppre us and we will not be b mobbed the be da day before I 1 was taken at inlet grove 1 rode with my w through axon D xon to visit m friends and I 1 said to her I 1 here is a good people I 1 felt as this by the spirit of god ged the ile next day was a prisoner in their midst in the hands handset of reynolds of missouri Alis and wilson of carthage carthage As th the latter drove up he exclaimed iia lia ila IIa ha ahal gat eat by god we have got the prophet bowl he gloried much in it but he is is now our prisoner when they came cams to take me they held two wo cocked pir pit aittola tola to my head and saluted ma me with wilh god damn yon ill shoot youl you ill shoot you god damn you repeating these threats nearly fifty times from first to last I 1 asked them what they wanted to shoot me for they said they would do it if I 1 made any resistance 10 0 very well I 1 replied 11 1 I have llave no resistance to make they then dragged draped me away and I 1 asked asked them by what authority they did these things they said by a writ hrom from the governors of missouri and illinois I 1 then told them I 1 wanted a writ of habeas corpus their reply was god damn you you shant have it 1 I 1 told a man to go to dixon and get me a writ of habeas corpus wilson then re repeated god damn you you shunt shant have it ill shoot hoot you 1 when we arrived at dixon I 1 sant for a lawyer who came and reynolds shut the door in his face and would not let me speak to him repeating beatin pea ting god damn you ill shoot you I 1 turne turned io to him opened my bosom and told him to shoot away I 1 have endured so much perse ution lon ion and oppression that I 1 am sick of life why then dont do t you ti shoot and have done with wilh it if instead oi of ta talking kin so much about it this somewhat t checked his insolence I 1 then told him that I 1 tegould have counsel to consult and eventually I 1 obtained my with the lawyers came to me and I 1 got avrit a writ of habeas corpus for myself and also a writ against reynolds and wilson for unlawful proceeding and cruel treatment towards me thanks to the good citizens of dixon who t nobly ohly obly took their stand against such unwarrantable and unlawful oppression my persecutors could couls not get out dut of town that night although when wilert they iest fist fi st arrived tiley aliey swore I 1 should not remain in dixon five minutes and ana I 1 found they hey had bad ordered horses accordingly to proceed to rock island I 1 pledged my honor to my counsel that the nauvoo city charter confer conferred red fed jurisdiction to investigate bo the subject so we e came to nauvoo where I 1 am now a prisoner in the he custody of a higher hi her tribunal than the circuit court lle the charter says that the city conned council shall have power and authority to mike make ordain establish and exec exee execute tte such ordinances not repugnant to the constitution of the file united states or of this state slats as a they tiey may uray deem necessary 7 for the tha peace peare benefit and safety of the inhabitants of said raid kaid kald city and also thit that the athe municipal court shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases arising under the ordinances of the city council the city council have passel an ordinance that no citizen of this city shall be taken ou out t of this thia city by any writ without the privilege of a writ of habeas corpus there us is nothing ant what we have pow paw power er over except where restricted by the constitution of the united states but say the mob moby what dangerous power sl ye yes danger dangen dangerous oui became they will protect the innocent and p put lit down down the constitution of the whited cited sates slates declares that the tin privilege of the writ nf of habeas corpus shall not li ba denied deny me m e the right of habeas corpus and I will fight with gun sword cannon whirl whirlwind vind and ana thunder until they are use used dup up like the kilkenny cats we have more power than most charters confer because we have nave power to go behind the writ and try the merits of the case if it these power are |