Show Y OF JOSIA JOSEPH SMITH I 1 NOVEMBER 1838 friday ath this morning thera ther cams came a number of men some of them armed their and savage appearance were such as to make us afraid to proceed without more guards A ines messenger was therefore ore to richmond to obtain them we started before their arrival but bud had not gone far before we met ool col price aiice with a guard of about seventy four men and were conducted by them I 1 to richmond and put into an old vacant house and a guard set Some sometime timo through the course of that day general dark clare anine ci me in aad and we were introduced to mm him we enquired of him I 1 the re reason ason ay why avd ve biad iad be been 1 en thus carri carried ed f from rom our homes homesy and nd what were the charges harj i 0 i against uk us jae said that bai he was vinot not we then rr able to de 1 termine but would be in im a short time and with ver very y little more i conversation wit withdrew lAdrew some short time after r he had withdrawn col price came iu in with two haing i in n his hands and a number of pa padlocks adlock 8 the two chains he fastened together 0 lie he had with him ten men armed who stood at the time of those thae operations operation si with a thumb upon the cock of their guns I 1 they first nailed down the windows then came I 1 and or ordered dereda a man by the name of john fulkerson whom he had haa with hin him to chain us together with chaab chains and padlocks o kir being seven in number after that ho he searched us diamia ing our pockets to see if wo we had any arms finding nothing but pocket knives ho he took them and conveyed them af off saturday 1 I 1 erfft divid davia bolman to remove 19 caldwell county thero there I 1 to reina remain iIi during the winter i or to pass pas out oui of the state JL wilson wilson brig gen by bv K F G nov 1838 11 the forego in ing is a trae specimen of Alis missouri libert liberty 7 gen en dark Clark had spent his hie our arrival I 1 a at t richmond mond in searching the laws to find fiad au I 1 t hority for trying lusby us by court martial had he not been becq a lawyer of eminence should have supposed it 11 no very difficult task to 10 decide that i qu quiet litt peaceful unoffending and private citi 1 zens too except its as minis ministers of tho gospel were not amenable to a military tribunal in h conn i try go governed verneld ba by cibil laws but U be this his a as it i may Go general dark la the governor thai he had edgen wite and 16 h field fidd of 1 0 cers eai here aday a day oi or tw two R J f for 0 r tw te e purpose galdi ald I 1 I 1 ing a court martal if 1111 1 this ibay ayi made out dut charges against against t the PAS prisoners anda called ork on judge king to try them as a commit ting court and I 1 am now busily engaged ip pro euring curing witnesses and subhi submitting fjug facts there boing no civil officers in ia caldwell Cald I 1 have haive to use the military boget to get witnesses from there which I 1 do without reserve the moat of th the e prisoners here 1 I consider guilty of ti treason eason and I 1 bor ben I 1 lieve wll will be convicted and the only difficulty in law is can they bo be tried in any alky county hub butt i caldwell if not they cannot be there indict I 1 i ed edy until a change of population in the event i the latter view is taken by the civil coutts courts I 1 suggest the propriety of trying jo smith hand nd I 1 those leaders taken by gen lucas lucak by a court martial for mutiny this I 1 am in favor of oni on I ly as a dernier er resor resort t I 1 v would have e taken this course ouria with ith smith at any tito rate but it bein being i 4 doubtful whet whether ber a court martial has jurisdiction or not in the 4 present casie chaltis th alTis w cheth 13 1 er these e p people eoj e oj ire are to 11 be as in timp time of f war and the mutineers muti as haying having mutinies mutinied muti nied in time of war and I 1 would here arkyou ask you to fori I 1 I 1 W ward ard to roe me the attorney torri ey generals 0 opinion pinion on this bis point it will not do to allow these leaders to return to their treasonable work again on account of their not being indic indicted ria caldwell they have committed treason murder arson I 1 burglary robbery larceny larcen and perjury 19 the three days investigation having closed d at adam ondi ahman every m ton honorably ora acquitted adam black being judge G gen erl I 1 eral wilson then ordered every camuy to be butof out of diah dichman mu in te ten n d days wm with permission to I 1 go to caldwell and there tarry until spring and then leave them the state under pal pain n of extermination mi the ads weather thet was wa li very cold cola more so than usual I 1 for foi that season of the thedoar boar and in in ke keeping this order of general wilson they bad to leave their ir eia crop P 81 and houses and to live I 1 i intents n and wagons wagon S in this inclement season of 1 the year As for their nocks flocks and ih hereto erda the anop had delivered them from the trouble of ta tar ling king bd care d of them or of am ro m the uain of seeing them sti starve rv t to a det death hl h L by stealing il iii tae chenu I 1 m an arrangement was made in which it was stipulated that a committee of twelve which had bad been previously appointed should have the privilege of going goin from far west to daviess county for the t term erlof of four weeks for the purpose dose of conveying ahr crops from daviess to Lal dweir the committee were to 10 wear obar white I 1 badges on their hats f for or protection 1 i i about thi thirty I 1 rt of the brethren have been kill ed a multi multitude ale wounded d a bout about a hundred are I 1 1 In and ab about out sixty at richmond awaiting 4 their arial trial far borwhat what ahey I 1 sunday alth while in richmond we we were III under the charge of ef 0 colonel price from chariton I 1 county who suffered all manner of abuse to be heaped upon us during this time my afflictions were great t aal our situation was trul truly y I 1 painful general dark informed us that he would turn us oveita over to the civil authorities for trial I 1 joseph smith jr ii aruin smith sidney rigdon parley P pratt lymn lyman wight amasa lyman george W robinson caleb baldwin alanson ripley washington voorhees sidney turner john hu buchanan chanan jacob gates chandler holbrook george W harris jesse D hunter andrew whitlock martin C alred aired william alred aired george D grant darwin chase elijah newman alvin G tippets zedekiah owens I 1 isaac morley thomas beek beck moses clawson Ol awson john T tanner daniel shearer daniel S thomas alexander alexande mcrae elisha edwards john S higby hio by ebenezer Ebe pezer page benjamin covey ebenezer ebanez r robinson lyman gibbs james M henderson david Pett crew i edward partridge francis hi higby oby o by david frampton george kimball joseph W younger henry allen alien J stout sheffield daniels ani silas maynard I 1 anthony read head benjamin jones daniel carn cam john T earl and norman shearer were brought before austin A king at Rib richmond mond for trial charged with the several everal crimes of 0 I 1 high treason against the state murder bur lary glary arson robbery and larceny monday the first act of the court wa was s to send out a body of armed men without a civil process to obtain witnesses i tuesday letb we were placed at the bar austin A King residing and thomas 0 0 burcl bur ell states stated attorney witnesses were aall called ed and 1 sworn at the po point int of the bayonet dr samp sala son avard was vas the first brought b be eare fore the I 1 cou court rt ile ho had previously told mr oliver ol 01 ney that if he wished to savo savio himself he must swear hard against the heads of the church as they were the ones the court wanted to criminate and if he could swear hard against them n they would not that is neither court or mob disturb him I 1 inte ingerid iid to do it said lfeo he in order to escde escape f for or if I 1 donot do northey not they will take my life I 1 I 1 this introduction is sufficient to show the ch character 0 of f bi his 8 testimony and lie he dwore swore just according to the statement he be had made doubtless thinking 11 it a wise course to ino ingratiate rati himself into the good graces of the mob the following witnesses were examined I 1 in behalf of the st state ate many of we may judge from their testimony swore upon lupori the same principle pid us avard namely wyatt cravens veng nehemiah sale captain samuel bogart Bogar fc morris phelps jo joli conill con ill robert snodgrass george eo argei M hinke IL james C I 1 owens nathaniel carr abner ago scovell john jk clemin cleminson son reed pick peck ji jwina ime a 13 ow owens e us re rees es ex william thomas M odle john raglin allen alien rathbun jeremiah ayer s andrew F job ajob freeburn ih gardner burr li briggs agg 1 elisha i camron charles Ble bleckler ekley james bobb obb les jesse ab kelly addison pride price samuel kimt kim ball william W phelps Phelp sJohn whitmer whitam er james jame 8 B turner george W joseph IL mcgee john flockhart JL porter balej benj benjimin amin slade lade ezra williams addi addison a green john n faylor timothy lewis nd and patrick lynch sunday while our adit iv was s going forward gen gave the he follow following permit petal t in daviess county ill 1 I deimit the I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 persons as a committee on the spart part g f chavar mor i mons to pass ass and r repass p as tn ii and through tho the county op oi Di davieau durina during the winter to to wit william huntington john joh n read benjamin S wilber mablo hiltman hillman ze wi 4 asoo son E F E gaylord henry herriman daniel I 1 stanton oliver snow william earl J 11 henry Hump humphrey brey upon all lawful busin business ess noar I 1 1838 1898 B R wilsen baig bri gen geh CoK imand i ino ing by F G kd aid 1 I I 1 we anre called upon for our witnesses and we gave the names 0 o ot f some forty r or fifty I 1 capt captain ain t V was as d es p a te h ed wi with t h a eb company mp a n 7 I 1 j of militia to proc procure tire the them m 1 arrested all he could find thrust ther them dinto into prison and we f were not a rowed allowed goseer to see them we frere are again called upon most taun tauntingly fot for witnesses as we gave the names of f some 0 others i ars and they tely were adso thrust ia inta ia so may 16 a vre reo to be found jiin d cv I 1 t 1 00 oo 4 Z i 3 meantime b delia ff ring pine kaney wi barl barlow thoret parsons ezra chipman aw and irza arza juddy judd jr ia and cef were i b bh rod I 1 tude fence fedee but were prevented by feiwus threats j atom telling ing the 1 truth as much as possible able 1 we 11 asawa I 1 saw a ml min a at afi the windo bytha by ohp name n an af alien aeri ieri and beck be boned e d hm to come I 1 in in and had ha him sworn but when he did not testily testify to fco please the court several rushed upon himwich him with i their bayonets bayonet 4 J and he fled the place lace and three ahree men took after him with loaded guns and he barely escaped escape dj I 1 with his life etwas it was of no use to get any more witnesses if we could have done it I 1 I 1 thus this mock investigation continued from day to day till fill saturday arturd ay when several of the brethren were deiseh discharged arged by judge king as follows Defend defendants anis against whom nothing is is proven viz amiga C lyman man john Buc Bu hinan chinaU andrew whitlock alvah L tippets jedediah alf owens isaac morley jo john h n T tanner danil daniela S thomas E elisha edwards benjamin obiey davidt frampton henry allen alien J stout sheffield eld daniels silas maynird anthony head johnt earl bia brown james dewberry I 1 sylvester sylvest ex Ett hulett lett C chandler hot hol brook martin ig I 1 al aired reo willi william tin aired the above defendants have been discharged by me there be being ing no evi evidence lence against them nov I 1 1838 austin A king judge jad g 0 ac 0 1 our church organization was converted by the testimony of he apostates into a temporal I 1 kingdom which was to fill the whole earth and a subdue all other kingdoms much was enquired by the die judge who zo t uj 7 tb the 1 I e b bv was wa s a methodist Nj ethod concerning C the prophecy 0 of daniel baniel 31 jn in the days of bf tha these 6 liing a abah tho the god of heaven set up a kingdom which shall all break gnp in ieves an all other kingdoms and stand forever aa ano and the kingdoms kingdom and the greatness af pf the kin kingdom I 1 alom under ther the whole heaves shall be given givenco gi vento to the of the most high 11 j nta I 1 as i though h hit it wag waa treason to believe the bible i wednesday danil daniel el ashby a mem member of oath 1 40 stacie senate wrote general dark clark that b he ayvas was in 11 I 1 lh the battle inobe mob at U hauns a uw mills that thirty one cormons mormons were killed and seven of his party wounded I 1 the remaining prisoners were ah r released elease i d or admitted to bail except lyman wight caleb baldwin hyrum smith alexander r mcrae sidney I 1 ne rigdon a and n d Iny myself self who were sent to liberty clay county coa ply to jail to stand our trial for treason and murder the I 1 treason for having 1 whipped the mob inoh out of daviess county and taking their cannon from them and the m murder ar der for or the man ki 11 bog bogart art battle pl also so parley P pratt morris phelps luman luma n gibbs darwin chase and norman shearer I 1 who wha were pu put into tinto rich richmond mond jail to stand their trial hal f for 0 the same crimes es di during aring the investigation we were mostly confined I 1 in iii chains and received much abuse I 1 I 1 the matter of dr driving ving away witnesses or casting them into prison or chasing chasing them out of the country was carried to such a length t that hat our lawyers general D joniphan and amos rees reds 11 told us not to io bring our witnesses there at all for if we did there would not be one of them I 1 left for f or final trial for no 0 sooner would bogart boga rt 1 a and P nd his men 1 now who they were than they I 1 would put them out of the country As to making any impression on king if a cohort of angeld dingels were to come down and declare I 1 we were clear doniphan said it would all be the same for he king had determined f from rom the beginning to cast us into prison we never got the privilege of introducing our witnesses nesses at all if i we had we could have disproved I 1 all they swore ore I 1 am M arthur ESQ to tar the representatives from clay county bouli ty liberty nov 1838 respected acted friends ilum humanity anity to an injured people p e prompts me at present to address you thus i you were aware of the treatment to some extent bea before are you lef leab b home received by that unfortunate race of beings called the cormons mormons Mor mons ons from f rom daviess in the form of human hum in beings inhabiting ha daviess livingston langston and nd a patt part of I 1 ray county not being satisfied with the relin ments of all their rights as citizens and human beings in the treaty forced upon them by general lucas by giving up their arms and throwing throwing throw inc themselves the ni selve upon the mercy of the S state tate a and ri d their fellow citizens generally I 1 hoping thereby protection of their lives and property are now nov receiving treatment from those demons that makes humanity shudder aej the cold chills oyer any map not entirely ji rely destitute of any feeling f eplin g of humanity i tv those these demons are nov now constantly st strolling rollin up and aad down caldwell county in small campa companies nies armed insulting the women in any and every ways way and plundering the poor devils of all the means of subsistence scanty canty as it was left them and driving off their horses cattle ho bogs o 95 ac and rifling their houses and farms of every triin 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