Show HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH AUGUST 1838 thursday the brethren of the camp i made madd five rods of turnpike in addition to their job and the blacksmiths were engaged in setting wagon tires horse shoes ac so as to he be ready for travelling tra velling 0 they had erected a forge j and bur burned tied pit goal for their use at this place brother john hammond and family were cut 0 from the camp because he did not govern his j family and stand in his lot as T tent en t IL master the duty of a tent master is to see that prayer is attended to in its season to call all the inmates into the tent and call the brethren by name who are to lead in prayer for they pray in their turns or lot and ho he is to watch over his tent for good and see that no iniquity exists and if he discovers iniquity ho he must put it down in righteousness but if ho he cannot he must call for help and if that will not do he i must prefer a charge in writing I 1 M against 0 the offender or offenders a and n d report them to the i council also he must draw daily rations for his tent elders dunham carter and hale laid hands upon sister willey who was v very ery sick and troubled with the powers of darkness and prayed for her and rebuked her I 1 disease elder dunham was immediately seized with terrible pain in his side shoulders neck ac and with difficulty succeeded in speaking to ask the elders to lay hands bands on him in the name of jesus which they did and rebuked tho the devil and he left him but soon returned and he again 0 called the elders to rebuke this evil spirit which they had to do sharply and it left him very sore for when he had dominion over him he felt as though he must die this day I 1 spent transacting a variety of business about th the city fru friday lay I 1 was at homo home also on the and on the brother joseph coons son died in the camp which was wa 8 reorganize reorganized id because by transgression and leaving the first or had been in some degree broken sunday Prez president ident joseph young preached to the camp in the coining and two were confirmed in tile the church there were many spectators present sacrament in the evening two strangers in ers came to dispute but went away confounded STATE OF MISSOURI 1 88 COU NTY oy of DAVIES before me william dryden one of the justices of the peace of said couett county personally came adam black who being Z du duly sworn according to law dep oseth and saith that on or about tile the ath da day y of august 1838 in the county of javies Davies then camo came an armed force of men said to be to the best of my inform information aaion and surrounded his house and family and threatened him with instant death if he did not sign a certain instrument of writing 0 binding himself as a justice of the peace deac e f for or said county of davies not to molest the people called cormons mormons Mor mons and threatened the lives of myself and other individuals and did say they intended to make every citizen sign such obligation and further said they intended to have satisfaction for abuse abase they had received on monday previous and they could not submit to the laws and further saith that from the best information and his own own personal knowledge that andrew alanson ripley george A smith ephraim owens harvey humstead hiram Nc nelson lison A brown john L butler cornelius P PJ lott john wood H redfield Red neld riley stewart james whitaker andrew thor amos tubbs dr goerze and abram nelson was guilty of aiding and abetting abetting 9 in committing and 11 he be above aboa 0 0 oll tr en ence C e ADAM BLACK sworn to and subscribed this the da day of A august up gust 1838 W DRYDEN g justice of the peace of tho the county aforesaid this document with that of said black of the eighth of august shows him in his true light a de stable unprincipled and perjured per aured man wednesday at three the trum pet pat of the camp sounded it being one hour earlier than usual to give time to prepare for the journey every heart leaped with joy and even the children were so delighted that they appeared like a lot of playful lambs the divisions vi gions moved off 43 2 1 i e ein in transposition and at nine in the morning the encampment camp ment was vacated which had been occupied for one month elder martin H peck was left at dayton sick they passed through mont gomery into jackson township traveled 18 miles and tented in the road two hundred and 1 seventy miles from kirtland thursday camp passed through liberty ville and preble county seat to ti the ie line of I 1 ohio and indiana and encamped within twenty rods odthe place wehre behre th theO eCamp amp tented that went up 6 missouri in 1834 two hundred and ninety miles from kirtland elder shumway vs Is child died I 1 this day governor boggs issued the following order to general atchinson head quarters of militia adjutant generals office august 1838 1 geo gen david R atchison chison Al 3rd ard divis division i on mis i militia sir indications of indian disturbances tur bances on our immediate frontier and the recent civil disturbances in the counties of caldwell Oal dwell davies and carroll render it necessary as a precautionary measure that an effective force of the militia be held in readiness to meet either contingency the commander in chief therefore orders that you cause to be raised immediately within the limits of yo your u r division to be held in readiness and I 1 8 subject abject to further farther orders four hundred mounted i men armed and equipped as infantry or rifle i men and formed into companies ca according to I 1 law under officers already in in commission the J commander in chief suggests the propriety of your causing the above to be carried into effect in in a manner calculated to produce as little excitement cit ement as possible and report your proceedings 0 to him through the adjutant general j by order of the commander in chief B M LISLE adjutant general A smilar letter was also addressed to major generals john B clark Samu elD lucas david willock lewis bolton henery W crawther and a rid thomas D grant friday 31 st camp passed through richmond and over white water river and through centreville Cen treville jackson township to german town and encamped in a stubble field near the town bought corn standing in the field for their horses at ten do dollars clars per acre traveled 18 miles I 1 spent a considerable time this day in eon coni with brother john in consequence of some expressions made by him in presence cresence of 0 se veral several bt brethren ethren who had not been long fong in the place brother corralls Cor rills conduct for some orne 1 l time had been very unbecoming especially in in a man in in whom so much confidence had been placed laced he said he would not yield his judgment to any y thing proposed by the church chura or any individuals of the church or even the great I 1 am given through the appointed organ as revelation I 1 but will always act upon his own judgment let e t him believe in whatever religion he may he stated he would always say what he pleased for he h e is a republican and as such he will do say act and believe what he pleases mark such republicanism as this this a man to oppose his own judgment to the jag judg I 1 j ment of god and at the same game time to profess to believe in the same god when that god has sa said id the wisdom of god is foolishness with benj men and the wisdom or judgment of men is foolishness with w ith god president rigdon also made some observations to brother corrill which he afterwards acknowledged were correct and that tant he understood things different after the interview from what he did before saturday september 1338 the first presidency with judge judi de higbee as surveyor started this morning for the halfway house as it is called kept by brother littlefield some 14 or 15 miles f from far west directly north for farj the purpose of appointing painting ap a C chy arty of zion for I 1 the gathering of the saints in ill that place for safety and from the storm which will soon C come 11 ie upon this generation and that the brethren may b be e together and that they may receive instruction to prepare them for that great reat day which will come upon this generation as aa a thief in the night there is great excitement at present among the missourians Missour ians coking becking if pos possible an occasion against against 11 us they are con chafing cha linc 0 us and provoking us to anger if possible 0 one io sign of threatening threat ning after another but ut we do not fear them for the lord god the eternal father is our god and jesus the mediator is our savior and iu in the great 0 great I 1 am is our ours strength tren th and confidence we have been driven time after time and that without c ause and smil smitten ten again a and nd again and that without provo provocation dation until we have proved the world with kindness and the world i proved us that he have no designs f against any I 1 nian man or set of men that tha t we injure no man mail th chati at I 1 we are peaceable with all meu men inin minding ding our own ba business siness and our business basine 86 only we have suffered our rights and our liberties to be taken i from us wo we have not avenged ourselves of 0 I 1 i those wrongs 0 wo we have appealed to magistrates I 1 I 1 to sheriffs to 10 judges to government and to i 1 the president of the united states all in vain i yet we havo have yielded peaceably to all these things we have not complained at tile the great god we murmured not but peaceably left all and retired into the back country in the broad and wild prairie in the barren and desolate plains and there commenced anew we made the desolate places to bud and blossom as the rose and now tile the fiend like race are disposed to give us no rest their father the devil is hourly calling upon them to be up and doing and they lk like I 1 e willing and obedient children need not the second admonition but in the nime name of jesus christ the son of the living iving X god we will endure it no longer if the great god will arm us with aoura courage e with strength streng tb and with power to resist them in their persecutions we will not act on the offensive but always on the defensive our ri rights ts aind d our liberties shall not be taken from us and we peaceably submit to it as we ve have done heretofore but we will avenge oure ou relves elves of our enemies inasmuch as they will not let us alone but to return return again g ain to our subject we found tho be place for the C city I 1 ty and the brethren were instructed to gat gather her immediately into it and S soon on they should bo be organized according 0 to the laws of god amore A more particular I 1 history of this city may be expected hereafter perhaps at its org organization it and dedication we found a new route home saving q I 1 should think three or four miles we arrived at far west about the close of day light this day the camp passed through cam bridgeville eville dublin Lous ville Og denville rays ville knightstown Knights town and encamped in frankville T township 0 where they found it difficult to get grain the people being disposed to take advantage v of them 22 mil miles es from kirtland the high priests met at brother peals at t far west and received levi richards into their Quo quorum ruin sunday 2nd and camp passed through charlotta ville portland jackson greenfield and pitched t tents near the bridge in jones township brother Merr iams child died at centre township this afternoon a miserable malicious drunken I 1 staze stage driver ran his horses aside out of their course and struck the fore wheel of one of the camp wagons and stove it in pences and then drove off exulting in his ini mischief the stage w was as marked J P traveled 21 miles the first Pre presidency attended meeting 9 as I 1 7 usual in the morning I 1 tarried it at homo home in the evening to examine the church records and spent a part of 0 the time in in company with a gentleman from livingston 0 county who had become considerably excited on account of a 1 large collection of people as they say to take joseph joseh smith junior and lyman wight for I 1 going to one adam blacks in in davies county I 1 and as aa they said president smith and colonel I 1 wight had resisted tho the officer who had en deavo red to take them fec sod and accordingly these men are assembling to take them as they thea 1 say they are collected from every part of the country to davies county report says saya they are collecting from eleven counties to help take 2 men who had never resisted the law or officer neither thought of doing so and this they knew knew at the same time or many many of them at least this his looks a little too much like it foretells some evil intentions the whole upper missouri is all in in an uproar and confusion this evening I 1 sent for general atchison of liberty clay count county Y who is the major general of this division to come and counsel with us and to fo see if he could not put a stop to this collection of people and to 10 put a stop to hostilities in davies county I 1 also sent a letter to judge king 1 11 containing a petition for lim him to assist in putting down and scattering the mob which are collecting at davies monday 3rd ard nothing of importance transpired this day only reports concerning concerning the ool col auction of a mob in davies county which has been collecting ever since the election in davies on the sixth of august last I 1 was at home most of the day this evening general atchison arrived in far west this morning ewer elder willeys Wil leys wife died after burial the camp passed cumberland village and indianapolis the capital of indiana where the wit they were threatened but passed unmolested with the exception of one brick bat which was hurled at one of the brethren but passed him unharmed and encamped in wayne township township near the house hoade of brother david R miller 0 17 miles from kirtland tuesday ath camp passed bridgeport Plain plainfield fiell guilford belleville stilesville Sti lesville in morgan count county y to marion township in put narn nam county this morning T the presidency of 0 the camp exhorted the brethren to humble amble h themselves before the lord and ana put pui away selfishness fish ness neis complain ings and mur 0 or else expect to meet the indignation of heaven he traveled 22 miles iles had an exal excl lent encampment and plenty of dry wood this day I 1 spent in counsel with general atchison he says he will do all in his power to disperse the mob ac we employed him and doniphan Doni pham his partner as our lawyers and counsellors Coun inlaw in law they I 1 are considered the first lawyers in upper missouri lis president rigdon and myself commenced this day the study of law under the instruction 1 of generals atchison and doniphan Doni D oni pham they think by diligent I 1 application we can be admitted to the bar in 12 months the result of the council was that myself and colonel wight volunteer and be tried by judo judge ge king jin n davies county colonel wight was present having been previously notified to attend the council accordingly thursday next was appointed for the trial and word w ord to that amount was sent to judo judge ge king who had previously agreed to volunteer and try the case to meet all at brother near the county line in the so southern athern part of davies I 1 was at hote home in the evening after six wednesday av ath I 1 gave the follo following wing affidavit that the truth might appear b before the public in the matter in controversy STATE OF MISSOURI CALDWELL COUNTY I 1 I 1 before me ellas elias higbee hambe himbe one of ahe the justices of the county court w within and for the county of caldwell aforesaid personally came joseph smith junior who been duly sworn accordino according to law dep oseth and saith that on the seventh day of august 6 1838 being t informed that an affray had |