Show I 1 copyright secured HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH 1840 sunday elder alder B young I 1 haa at 1 f far ar recovered as to be able to attend preaching by parley P pratt at columbia hall 1 the high council of lavoo voted that the notes given given iut into 0 the hands of bishop partridge by certain individuals as conse oration for building the lords house in far west be returned to the same by him tuesday elders B young and H edlock went to hempstead hem istead on long island and preached at rockaway Bock away and the neigh boyhood vill till tv the fourth of march ind and bap ap i sized nine wednesday judge higbee wrote as aa follows washington fob b 1940 dear brother am just fast informed by gen eral era wall the chairman of the committee before whom or to whom our business is i referred decision is is I 1 against us or in other wp unfavorable that abey believe redress can only be had in missouri the courts and le legislature wi slature he says they will report this week I 1 desire to get a copy of it and also the papers I 1 feel a conscience void of offence offense towards god and man in this matter that I 1 have discharged my duty here and as I 1 wish not to be on expense as soon as I 1 can write to president rigdon get gee my papers and draw some money to bev bear my expenses f shall bid adieu to this thiis city to return to my family and friends I 1 feel now that we have made our last af api peal to all earthly tribunes that we should shou I 1 d now pat our whole trust in the god of abraham isaac and jacob we have a rig right h t n now ow which ch we could not heretofore so ully fully f claim that is of asking god for redress and redemption demp tion as they have been refuted refused us by man ELIAS HIGBEE HIG BEfi to joseph jose h smith jr wagn I 1 tad had returned a as far as Day dayton tn I 1 horses which we left on our jour atey y out and from thence I 1 pursued my journey indiana on horseback in company with wilh dr DP foster leaving 0 brother rockwell nt at dayton the traveling being exceedingly bal bad mv progress prore pr oTress 33 STOW slow and wearisome I 1 my clerk samos james malholland died 0 on n nov ad 1839 while I 1 was waa absent aged 35 years j I 1 ile he was a arm of fine education cation and a faith f ful al scribe ani and elder in the church wednesday march ath th 1840 1 I 1 arrived safely oaf ely at nauvoo after a wearisome jour ney alternate and mud hav ing witnessed many vexatious movements in GO sole object should be the peace and prosperity and hap happiness tais iness of the whole people hut but instead of this I 1 discovered that popular clamor and personal agaran aggrandizement I 1 were the ruling principles of those in authority at hority and my heart faints within roe me when 1 J l see by bl the visions of the almighty the ond end ot of this nation if j she ghe continues to disregard the cries and aas petitions e of her virtuous citizens as she has done and is now doing doin j I 1 I 1 have also enjo enjoyed many precious mo i 1 mente with the saints during my journey on my way home I 1 did not fail to proclaim the iniquity and insolence of martin van buren towards myself and an injured people le which will have its effect upon the public fie mind and may he never be elected again to any office of trust or power by which he may abuse the innocent and let the guilty go free I 1 I 1 I 1 depended on dr foster to keep my dai ly burnal journal during this journey but tie fie has failed me I 1 elders B young and bedlock returned to new york and held a conference when when man many eld elders er s were ordained I 1 twenty six sixth th congress us first session 1 in senate of the ute united d states march fth 1840 submitted laid on the tabled table and or dered to be printed the following I 1 report I 1 made by mr wall I 1 the committee on the judiciary to whom was referred the memorial demori al of a delegation of the latter day saints sainta report i the petition of the Memoria lists set bet forth in substance that a portion of their sect commenced a settlement in the county of jackson in the state of missouri in the summer of 1831 that they bought lands built houses erected churches and established their homes and engaged in all the varion occupations of life that they were gerej expelled from that county com aty in 1833 by a mob I 1 under circumstances of great outrage e cruelty and oppression and against all law and without any offense offence committed on their part rt and to the destruction of property to the amount of dollars collars that the society thus expelled amounted to about 1200 soula that no compensation was wag aver mide made for the destruction of their property v in jack jackson s n that after their expulsion from jackson county they settled in clay county on the opposite side of the missouri river where aare they purchased lands and enten enferd d others at I 1 the land boffl office a e where they resided pea peaceably a ea bly I 1 i for three years engaged in in cultivation and other useful and active employments when j the mob again threatened their peace lives and property and they became alarmed and binally anally made a trea fey with the citizens of I 1 clay county that chev should purchase their I 1 lands landa and the saints sainta should remove which I 1 was complied with on on their part and the I 1 saints removed to the county of calowell i where they took up their abode and tees rees te re es I 1 settlement not without heavy pecuniary losses and other inconveniences I 1 that the citizens of clay county never paid them for the their I 1 i r lands for small asmah a part they remained in caldwell from 1836 until the fall of 1838 and during that time had acquired by purchase from the government the settlers andere and pre almost all tha lands in the county of haldwell Oal dwell and a portion of the lands in daviess and carroll counties the former county being almost entirely settled by the saints sai fats and they were rapidly filling up the two latter counties those coun counties liea when the saints first commenced their Bett settlement lement were for the post most part t wild and uncultivated and they hod had converted then into large and well improved farms well stocked land had risen rhen in in value to ten and eyen twenty five ave dollars per i acre and these bounties oun ties were rapidly advancing in in cultivation on and wealth wealth that in august 1838 a riot eomme commenced noe growing out of an attempt of af a saint to vote voters I 1 which resulted in creating great excitement and the perpetration scenes of lawless I 1 butge outrage which are set forth in the petition t iti 0 a that at they were finally compelled to py y from those counties andon ahe bilth oci tober 1838 they sought safety by that means with their families y leavina leaving many of owr eff effects effantis ants bf hind that they abad had previously I 1 applied a plied to the constituted authorities of I 1 missouri for protection but in vain they allege that they were pur pursued sued by the he mob that conflicts ensued deaths occurred on I 1 each eich aide sid and finally a force f 0 roe was organized I 1 I under the aut authority borRy of the governor of the i state of missouri with orders to drive the saints from the state or exterminate them I 1 the saints thereupon determined to make no i further resistance but to sn submit amit themselves to the authorities of the state I 1 several of the saints were arrested andl and imprisoned imari boned on a charge of treason against 1 the state and a nd the rest amounting to about souls soula fled fied into other states principally in illinois where they now eside reside the petition is drawn draw n up 40 n great length and sets seta f forth with feeling I 1 land elo eloquence nence 1 wrongs or 00 their awn conduct and aggravates t that at of those whom thy thag calU heir ir persecutors and conclude by saying they sae seano no redress unless it it he be abt obtained a ned of the congress of the i united states to whom they make their sol emu list last appeal as american citizens as aa 1 christians and as nen men to which decision I 1 the they y say they will sabi submit in it I 1 the committee have examined the case presented by the petition and heard thel the views urged by their agent with care and attention and after full examination and consideration unanimously concur in the opinion that the ease case presented for their investigation g t ion i is s not such a one as aa will 3 justify J austif y or I 1 authorize any interposition by this government I 1 I 1 I 1 the wrongs complained of are not alleged 40 lo 10 he be committed by any of the officers of the united states or dr under the authority of its government in adv any manner whatever the allegations in the petition relate to the acts of i its i citizens and inhabit inhabitants ants and authorities of the state of missouri of which state the petitioners petition ers were at the time citi citizens or inh inhabitants I 1 the grievances complained of in the petition ari alleged to have been done within the territory of the state of MW missouri the committee under these circumstances have not considered themselves justified in enquiring into the truth or falsehood of the fact charged in the petition if they are true the petitioners petition ers must seek relief in the courts of judicature of the state of missouri or of the united states which has the appropriate jurisdiction to administer full and adequate redress fr f r the wrongs complained of band wd doubtless will d do 0 so fairly and I 1 impartially or the petitioners petition ers may if they see proper apply to the justice bastice and ana magnanimity of the state of missouri an appeal which the committee feel josti justified fied in believing will vill never neve r be made in vain by the injured or oppressed it can never be presumed that a state either wants the power or lacks hicks the disposition to redress the wrongs of f its own citizens c committed within her own territory whether they proceed from the lawless acts of her officers or any other persons the committee therefore report that they recommend the passage of the following resolution resolved that the committee on the judiciary be discharged from the further consideration of the memorial in this case and that the memoria lists have leave to withdraw I 1 the papers which accompany their memorial 11 thursday ath lee ilee county 1 T march ath 1840 1 I daniel avery do hereby certify ze that the following foi lowing scenes transpired in the state of miss missouri louri to my iby personal knowledge ledge first in the year 1838 some time in the fall I 1 was waa called on by the martial law of the state of missouri to aid and assist to rescue women and children from the hands of a mob from the waters of grand river whose bu husbands alande and fathers bad been driven off ff we found the house invested by the mob some of whom were in the house threatening the lives of the women and children if they dia dionot not leave their property and effects immediately and follow their husbands husband 8 and fathers one family lost a child while in this situation for the watt want of care the women being bein compelled by these mou monsters to provide and cook them food I 1 this company odthe of the mob was commanded by james weldin I 1 also alio saw about seventy families driven from de witt by a mob commanded by sar shiel wood I 1 helped to bury one woman we the first night who had been confined in childbed d a night or two before and could not endure th the sufferings the next beebe I 1 saw I 1 was peaceably traveling ng the road I 1 a roan man by the name of obanion was shot dead at my feet we advanced A little further when two WL were killed and several wounded I 1 iffa wards weMa learned that mang gang of ewas sas commanded by samuel bog bogart art I 1 in eon consequence sequence of being pursued out of the state by this lawless mot mon I 1 was not an I 1 eye witness to the many thousand wicked i acts act committed by the Go governors vernora exterminating militia IDANIEL AVERY AVERT J sworn to 0 before D DW W kilbourn J P I 1 friday eth attended the meeting of the high council of iowa at brother 91 elijah i ah Ford hams montrose montrone Mon troge extracts from the minutes of the Cots council ocil I 1 president joseph smith jr addressed th the e council on various subjects ta and in particular the consecration liw law that the affair now before congress was the only thing that ought to interest t the saints at present and till it was ascertained how it would terminate no person I 1 ought to be brought to account before the constituted instituted authorities of the church for any offence offense whatever and was determined that no man should be brought before the council in nauvoo till that time ac ac that the law of consecration could not be kept capt here heie and that it was the will of the lord that we aej should desist from trying to keep it and if persi persisted sied in it would produce a perfect defeat of its object and that he be assumed the whole responsibility of not keeping it until uati 1 l proposed by himself I 1 he requested every exertion tobe to be made to forward affidavits to washington Washing toi and aind also letters to members of conar congress r ess the therol fal allowing bowing votes were I 1 I 1 that this council will coincide wih president joseph smith mith juniors decision concerning abe law on the principle of its beins aing the will wal of the ibe lorland Lor dand of president smiths tak taking ing the responsibility n sibil on himself d that a committee of three h be lyk a ap painted consisting of wheeler baldwin man wight and abraham 0 sm smoot oot to obtain affidavits and other documents to be forwarded to the city of washington ad that the elerk clerk of this council be directed to inform judge higbee that it is the wish of this council that he eh should oded na bof upon any consideration consent to accept of anything of congress short of our just rights and demands for our oar losses and damages adages in in missouri I 1 sunday sanday ath I 1 attended the high council of nauvoo at brother grangers brangers Gr angers prest B young preached in columbia hall new york I 1 monday ath elders brigham young heler heber C kimball parley P pratt orson pratt george A smith sinith and reuben heo hed look lock sailed from new york on an theT tha Patrick atrick henry for Liver bool washington march ath th 1840 dew dear brother ikpe I 1 expected cred by this time that we would be with our business but the chairman of the committee gave notice last I 1 week eek li he should call it up to day in the senate though mr youngs having gone to philadelphia it will not ie be called up his return which will be on nei next d thursday according to the information that I 1 have obtained relative to matter if the resolution is passed as annexed to the report I 1 shall get my papers an deave t the he city I 1 bae written some letters to brother rigdon which it seems seem he did not get br samuel bennett writes that br rigdon left philadelphia for the jerseys on the ath dinst he stated that he expects me to come there to go 90 with hii him home and that he would I 1 write me soon on thi the subject I 1 shall write I 1 for him to make the necessary arrangements ile he says dr ells ella family left about a week ago f for ar commerce also that ant the church there numbers about one hundred and P P pratt orson oraon pratt br kimball br young G A smith and br hadlock were to sail f from ro new york to england on the ath dinst anat I 1 As I 1 havo have lately written several letters to you yolk I 1 shall bid adieu not to write again until af after ter the senate acts upon our business mr robinson robin son says he has sent you a report notwithstanding i I 1 shall enclose another for you von I 1 have hafeed cha my place of boarding in 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