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To Amy Hempel—
—There is no other cheese.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler
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Dispatch
First

Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67,

on arrival Midwestern American airport greater █████ area.
Flight █████. Date █████. Priority mission top success to
complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.
Fellow operatives already pass immigrant control, exit
through secure doors and to embrace own other host family
people. Operative Tibor, agent 23; operative Magda, agent
36; operative Ling, agent 19. All violate United States secure
port of entry having success. Each now embedded among
middle-income corrupt American family, all other homes,
other schools and neighbors of same city. By not after next
today, strategy web of operatives to be established.
Passport man, officer nothing behind bullet glass, open
and reading passport book of operative me, matching to pa-
per facts of visa, man down look upon this agent, say,
“You’re a long ways from home, son.” Man, ancient penned
animal dying of too tall, pooled heavy blood hanging in leg
veins. Trapped all day, then could be next walk to toilet,
pow-pow, clot knock out brain.
Passport man say, “So, you’re an exchange student?” Man
say, “How old are you, my boy?”
On fingers of operative me, am to count one, two until
thirteen.
“So you’re thirteen?” say passport man. Behind glass, say,
“Awful small for your age, aren’t you?”
Operative me say, One-three. Hold fingers straight and say
repeat, Thirteen.
Iron fist of operative me, could be, flash fire explode,
pow-bang. Burst bullet glass. Striking Cobra Quick Kill
maneuver so collapse passport man windpipe. Render
instant quick dead.
Tongue of operative me lick, licking, touching back tooth
on bottom, molar where planted inside forms cyanide
hollow, touching not biting. Not yet. Tooth wet smooth
against lick of tongue. Swallow spit, say counting one, two,
counting on fingers of hand until six. Tell passport man, to
be exchange student with host family six month.
Passport man strike paper of book with ink, marked good
to enter nation. Slide passport book returned to this agent.
Man say, “Welcome to the greatest country on earth.” Press
button and doors allow way inside United States, accessing
target family to harvest.
Only one step with foot, operative me to defile security of
degenerate American snake nest. Den of evil. Hive of
corruption. Host family of operative me waiting, host arms
elbow bent to flutter host fingers in attention of this agent.
Host family shouting, arms above with wiggling finger.
For official record, host father present as vast breathing
cow, blowing out putrid stink diet heavy with dead slaugh-
terhouse flesh, bellowing stench of Viagra breath during cow
father reach to clasp hand of operative me. From tissue com-
press rate of father fist, bone-to-cow ratio, host father
contain 31.2 percent body fat. Wearing is anchored spring
apparatus gripping chest blouse pocket of father, one
laminated name badge swinging there, giving name “Donald
Cedar,” from orange dot code, security level nine. Swipe
magnetic strip. American industry typical biological
exposure indicate strip, as stripe gray along bottom edge of
badge, strip showing no recent exposure.
Operative me, am agitating vast fist of cow father, while
free hand of this agent reach to acquire security badge.
Next now, host cow father say, “Whoa, there, little fella.”
Say, “No touchy,” and father touching badge, tapping
laminate card flat against own cow-stinking chest, say, “Top
secret.” In talk breath of Viagra, reek of Propecia and mint
chew gum.
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Operative me ready. Could be simple two pointed elbows
to father’s chest, one-two, kam-pow, Flying Eagle maneuver,
and three days, by after next today, will father be vomiting
both lungs, turned inside out with massive blood, dead. Fast
as easy, young child able do.
Host mother dig pointed elbow into rib cage of host father,
say, “Listen to you, Mister Big Shot.”
Host mother present as blinking chicken, chin of face bony
sharp as beak, chin tucking and swivel to turn, never still,
chicken mother say, “Look at you!” Face exploded in silent
screaming of wide-open lips and teeth, pointy tongue, eye-
brows jumped into chicken forehead. Bony claws of chicken
mother, gripping each this agent hands, mother lifts to
spread arms too high on top this agent head. Spreading
operative me so open, exposed, host mother say, “Look how
skinny!”
Looped around one bony chicken claw, keys of automobile
rattle and swinging. American-type model require 17.1 min-
ute merely so feed gasoline tank full. Keys of host family resi-
dence structure. Other automobile keys, crushed between
bony chicken claw and hand of operative me. Fingers of this
agent close around keys, attempt slip steal begin off from
claw.
Next now, host mother say, “We need to put some meat on
those bones.” Host mother claws keys shut inside mother
talon. Sweat sweating from pores of mother, a cooking stew
smell heavy mixed with café iced mocha vanilla combined
Zoloft mixed Xanax. Stenched with supplement estrogen.
Reek of lanolin out face wrinkle with folic acid pills too
many.
From tissue flex index of hand, tendon resistance and der-
mal friction, guessing chicken mother to be 6.3 percent body
fat. Blood pressure 182/120. Resting pulse rate 93. Age 42.3
years. Inside six year, easy subject brain stroke dead.
Mother and father, host family name “Cedar.” Around op-
erative me, make arms. Grope hug.
Next then, introduced two host sibling.
Host sister push bundle of paper so collide with abdomen
of operative me, paper red and constricted with false gold
color of synthetic binding tied so make elaborate flowering
knot on top. Printed on paper, in English gold letters say,
“Happy Birthday.”
“It’s a T-shirt,” say host brother, say, “Show some
manners.” Host brother only pig dog, cradled on both hands,
apparatus of black plastic with pig dog dancing thumbs
making buttons beep. Black plastic issue noise many tiny
explosion. Machine gun report. Host pig dog brother say,
“You’re not sharing my room, you little turd.”
On pig dog breath, the stink of Ritalin. The pollution
stench of model airplane adhesive and frequent masturba-
tions. Underneath… reek of secret blood, latex rubber, and
fear sweat. Pig dog face not look up, but blotted one cheek
with vast purple bruised. Estimate old 14.5 years.
Twitching chicken mother, wagging one finger made
straight, host mother say, “Now, don’t let’s be racist…”
Easy fast could be, feet of operative me hitting pig dog,
pow-pow, Flying Giant Stork Death Kick, collapse inside of
pig dog zygomatic arch, driving bone back direct to spear
brain, jab-boom, dead before make next stink breath.
For host mother, soon plan dim mak, fatal touch to acu-
puncture meridian, leave painless instant now dead as mook
Joong dummy.
For official record, only host sister look rewarding oppo-
nent. Host sister, stealth cat. Cat of night, silent but eyeing
all happen. Cat sister press red paper bundle on fingers of
operative me, host sister say, “I hope it fits.”
Fingers of operative me cradle package, slick feel of red
paper. Pull at fake gold of flowering knot, careful no to tear
paper, no to break binding. This agent deconstruct package
careful as were delay-ignite Turkish T-155 Panter howitzer
shell bomb. Inside, folded black fabric printed white with in
letters English writing. Unfold fabric so reveal tunic, wrote
across front with “Property of Jesus” on top above shape like
fish, like primitive outline caveman fish.
Pig dog eyes looking down at apparatus, twitching thumbs
pushing beeps, busy and fast, host brother say, “It’s a T-shirt,
’tard.” Say, “Put it on.”
Fellow mission operatives, neighboring amid arrival for
collect luggage, target host families throw arms around, say,
“Group hug.” Agent Sasha. Agent Vigor. Accept to grip
thread of silver floating bladder, English worded “Welcome
to Jesus.” Other floating bladder worded “Smile!” Other
package covered of paper. Other agents buried in heavy layer
American arms. Every American try secret to be sniffing op-
eratives, scrub with small snake eyes for soil or foreign
disease germ. Host families with fellow operatives trailing
more distant, strolling more distant until disappear out
airport doors to where already automobile wait. Horn
honking at edge of outside street. All automobile the big of
house.
Begins here phase one: Operation Havoc.
Arms of operative me wrestle black fabric over head, pull
fabric down over shoulders, over waist until black hang to
knees, past knees. Edge of little sleeve hang to elbow. Word
of “Jesus” flap over crotch. Collar big around to circle neck
and one shoulder of this agent.
Breathing cow father say, “You’ll grow into it.” Say, stink-
ing fluoride breath, “Here,” and hand over fabric rag glued
to hang off end of wood stick. American flag little as napkin.
White, red, and blue.
Fingers of operative me pinch wood stick like stem of
stinking weed. Wave stripe flag to fan away reek of host fam-
ily air. Butter fat stench. Chemical hair soap stink. Such filthy
reek American cash money.
Hand of vast cow father, hand rise, all finger made straight
as for pledge. Lips host father say, “We’re not just a family.”
Say shout, “We’re a team!”
Same now, host mother flex both leg limbs so able leap,
smite own palm against open hand of father, making loud
sound of slap hands. Say shout host chicken mother, “Team
Cedar!”
Begins here delicious tang of host family, thin American
blood already salt on hot tongue of operative me. Already is
decadent host family flesh tear by operative teeth. Drool of
operative me, flooding hunger within mouth making to
swallow. Tongue to lick lips of operative me. Drown cyanide
molar. Could be crunch of host bones sweet between teeth of
this agent. Stomach to growl. Quick them to be screaming
out blood, mouth trumpet yawning blood, quick dead. Ulti-
mate vengeance.
Label tag inside collar of Jesus tunic, print “Made in
China.”
Label tag along weed stem of American flag, print “Made
in China.”
Operative me not say loud, only say inside this agent head,
quote turncoat Hebrew, corrupt genius Robert Oppenheimer,
atom bomb father, quote, “I am become as death, the de-
stroyer of worlds.” Next then, making agent eyes bright on
host target family, mouth of operative design into smile,
extra especial wide to show all of many sharp white teeth.
Quote, “All the better to eat you with, my dears.”
Repeat inside head of operative me, quote, “I am become
as death…”
Chicken mother say, “We’ll make an American out of
you…” Keys of automobile jangling, beak chin wagging no
stop, host mother say, “Or, swear to our Lord almighty God,
we are gonna die trying.”
Dispatch
Second

Begins here second account of operative me, agent number

67, on arrival retail product distribution facility of city
█████. Outlet number █████. Date █████. For official
record, during American winter youth attend compulsive
levels of teaching; during summer, American youth must
attend shopping mall.
Magic quiet door go sideways, disappear inside wall to
open path from outside. Not total all glass, extruded alumi-
num metal frame silver edge, doors slide gone until reveal in-
side stand old woman, slave woman appareled with red
tunic, spring apparatus gripping tunic front to hang swinging
sign, printed, “Doris.” Ancient sentinel rest gray cloud eye
upon operative me, roll eye from hair and down this agent,
say, voice like old parrot, say, “Welcome to Wal-Mart.” Say,
“May I help you find something?”
Mouths of this agent make smile, face design into pleasing
eye contact. This agent say, “Much venerate ancient
mother… where sold here location China-make 81-S-type
gas-operated, rotating-bolt, fire six hundred fifty rounds per
minute machine gun?”
Face of ancient mummify bound in dying skin, clouded eye
only look, no blink.
Smile of operative me say, “Revered soon dying mother,
distribute you ammunitions correct for Croatia-made
forty-five-caliber, long-piston-stroke APS assault rifle?”
Smile of operative me, breathing, await.
Sag windpipe of ancient parrot, sag skin jump with swal-
low. Edge smear of red wax slice open as mouth, wax smile
melt flat, straight.
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“Brazil-made FA 03 assault rifle?” say this agent, shout,
maybe not could hear, shout, “Venerate ancestor, much re-
spected dying soon rotting corpse,” shout, “where sell here
Slovak SA Vz.58 assault rifle?”
Parrot face of dying skin fill with blood glow, red wax of
mouth bunch until volcano pucker, tight until skin of pucker
mouth pinched white of no blood. Cloud eyes flash electric
bolts. Volcano blow open, old parrot voice say, loud shout,
saliva erupt to fly, “You’ll find our sporting goods on aisle
sixteen, young man.”
Could be, zing-wring, hands of this operative pounce in
rapid Bird Wing Gentle Embrace to twist parrot neck, back-
bone twist-snap, to bring mercy instant soft death.
Merely this agent say, “Thank you, much esteemed madam
living skeleton.” Wish safe quick soon mission into next eter-
nity.
For official record, squirrel maze of retail distribution
center puzzle of competition warring objects, all improved,
all package within fire colors. Area divided into walls
constructed from objects, all tinted color so grab eye. All
object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,
begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to
rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.
Word label blow sharp into ear, loud into eye. Pander hand
to take. Dying objects. All here, useful life winding down in
clock ticks. Dying objects. Dying buyer. Dying slave woman
“Doris.” Desperate how sad.
Feet of this operative walk bending around corners,
through canyon shadowed of objects, all boast best cheap.
All most good taste. All objects fight for adopt.
Bending around new corner, eyes of operative me witness
operative Tibor, agent 23, shoving wheeled silver basket of
host family. Around new corner, witness operative Magda,
agent 36; host mother eyeing sideways as concealing bright
box of object within tunic of that agent to theft. Eye of
operative Magda meeting eye contact of this agent.
Recent to commence: Operation Havoc.
Next then, feet of this operative bending around new cor-
ner, witness host brother, pig dog, resting on polish floor.
Prone on floor, pig dog face cheek flat pressed on floor,
whole body sprawl behind head and neck. Stand over, other
new youth, American growing clear-yellow hair to hang
hiding ears. Clear-yellow hair hang to hide neck, hang so
curtain sides of face while youth rest shoe foot on upside of
pig dog face. Clear-yellow youth balance all weight, stand
only on face of host brother, clear-yellow youth say, “Hand
over the cash, dick-wad…”
Face of pig dog, pinched under shoe, flat on top of floor,
nose of host brother leak blood and liquid mucus in mix
puddle around crack lips. Host brother eyes squeeze shut.
Lips of pig dog sputter in puddle, blow blood and juice to
say, “Okay… okay.” Say, “Just let me up.”
Clear-yellow bully reach hand to behind trouser pocket of
pig dog. Slide fingers within and pull until denim fabric cry
with threads breaking, until pocket flap hanging like fabric
tail. Hands of clear-yellow bully, stomp shoe planted to hold
pig dog face into floor, hands apprehend American paper
dollars out of leather pocketbook of pig dog. Clear-yellow
bully stuff paper in own trouser pocket, throw hollow
pocketbook to wing, zing-pow, bounce against face,
splashing blood puddle of host brother. Clear-bully look to
witness this agent, eyes of bully electric-bolt blue, product
fire color blue, to grab eyes of operative me. Bully appareled
with black tunic lettered, “John 3:16.” Blue denim trouser.
Clear-yellow bully say, “What are you looking at, pygmy?”
Say, “Beat it!”
Eyes of host brother open, look from floor, lips say, “I told
you not to follow me…” Eyes zigzag cracked with blood tun-
nels inside white part.
Leather pocketbook spread open on floor, splashed in
blood, hollow of dollars. Knees of operative me bend so
allow hands of this agent to retrieve.
Clear-yellow bully say, “Hey, Cedar, is this your little col-
ored bitch?”
Who sued so humbly for relief
That I could never answer, Nay.

I had not power to ask his name;

Whither he went or whence he came;
Yet there was something in his eye
That won my love, I knew not why.

Once, when my scanty meal was spread,

He entered—not a word he spake!
Just perishing for want of bread;
I gave him all; he blessed it, brake,

And ate, but gave me part again;

Mine was an angel's portion then,
For while I fed with eager haste,
The crust was manna to my taste.

I spied him where a fountain burst,

Clear from the rock—his strength was gone,
The heedless water mocked his thirst,
He heard it, saw it hurrying on.

I ran and raised the suff'rer up;

Thrice from the stream he drain'd my cup,
Dipp'd, and returned it running o'er;
I drank and never thirsted more.

'Twas night, the floods were out, it blew

A winter hurricane aloof;
I heard his voice, abroad, and flew
To bid him welcome to my roof.

I warmed, I clothed, I cheered my guest,

I laid him on my couch to rest;
Then made the earth my bed, and seem'd
In Eden's garden while I dream'd.
Stripp'd, wounded, beaten nigh to death,
I found him by the highway side;
I rous'd his pulse, brought back his breath,
Revived his spirit, and supplied

Wine, oil, refreshment—he was heal'd;

I had myself a wound conceal'd;
But from that hour forgot the smart,
And peace bound up my broken heart,

In pris'n I saw him next—condemned

To meet a traitor's doom at morn;
The tide of lying tongues I stemmed.
And honored him 'mid shame and scorn.

My friendship's utmost zeal to try,

He asked, if I for him would die;
The flesh was weak, my blood ran chill,
But the free spirit cried, "I will!"

Then in a moment to my view,

The stranger started from disguise:
The tokens in his hands I knew,
The Savior stood before mine eyes.

He spake—and my poor name he named—

"Of me thou hast not been asham'd;
These deeds shall thy memorial be;
Fear not thou didst them unto me."

When he got through, Joseph requested him to sing it again, which he did.

Hyrum read extracts from Josephus.

4 p.m.—The guard was again changed, only eight men being stationed at the
jail, whilst the main body of the Carthage Greys were in camp about a
quarter of a mile distant, on the public square.
4:15 p.m.—Joseph commenced conversing with the guard about Joseph H.
Jackson, William and Wilson Law, and others of his persecutors.

Hyrum and Dr. Richards conversed together until quarter past five.

5 p.m.—Jailor Stigall returned to the jail, and said that Stephen Markham
had been surrounded by a mob, who had driven him out of Carthage, and he
had gone to Nauvoo.

Stigall suggested that they would be safer in the cell. Joseph

said, "After supper we will go in." Mr. Stigall went out, and Anxiety of the
Joseph said to Dr. Richards, "If we go into the cell, will you Jailor.
go in with us?" The doctor answered, "Brother Joseph you did
not ask me to cross the river with you—you did not ask me to come to
Carthage—you did not ask me to come to jail with you—and do you think I
would forsake you now? But I will tell you what I will do; if you are
condemned to be hung for treason, I will be hung in your stead, and you
shall go free." Joseph said "You cannot." The doctor replied, "I will."

Before the jailor came in, his boy brought in some water, and
said the guard wanted some wine. Joseph gave Dr. Richards Wine for the
two dollars to give the guard; but the guard said one was Guard.
enough, and would take no more.

The guard immediately sent for a bottle of wine, pipes, and two small
papers of tobacco; and one of the guards brought them into the jail soon
after the jailor went out. Dr. Richards uncorked the bottle, and presented a
glass to Joseph, who tasted, as also Brother Taylor and the doctor, and the
bottle was then given to the guard, who turned to go out. When at the top of
the stairs some one below called him two or three times, and he went down.

Immediately there was a little rustling at the outer door of the

jail, and a cry of surrender, and also a discharge of three or The Assault on
four firearms followed instantly. The doctor glanced an eye by the Jail.
the curtain of the window, and saw about a hundred armed
men around the door.
It is said that the guard elevated their firelocks, and boisterously threatening
the mob discharged their firearms over their heads. The mob encircled the
building, and some of them rushed by the guard up the flight of stairs, burst
open the door, and began the work of death, while others fired in through
the open windows.

In the meantime Joseph, Hyrum, and Elder Taylor had their

coats off. Joseph sprang to his coat for his six-shooter, Hyrum The Prisoner's
for his single barrel, Taylor for Markham's large hickory cane, Defense.
and Dr. Richards for Taylor's cane. All sprang against the
door, the balls whistled up the stairway, and in an instant one came through
the door.

Joseph Smith, John Taylor and Dr. Richards sprang to the left of the door,
and tried to knock aside the guns of the ruffians.

Hyrum was retreating back in front of the door and snapped

his pistol, when a ball struck him in the left side of his nose, Death of
and he fell on his back on the floor saying, "I am a dead Hyrum Smith.
man!" As he fell on the floor another ball from the outside
entered his left side, and passed through his body with such force that it
completely broke to pieces the watch he wore in his vest pocket, and at the
same instant another ball from the door grazed his breast, and entered his
head by the throat; subsequently a fourth ball entered his left leg.

A shower of balls was pouring through all parts of the room, many of which
lodged in the ceiling just above the head of Hyrum.

Joseph reached round the door casing, and discharged his six
shooter into the passage, some barrels missing fire. Continual The
discharges of musketry came into the room. Elder Taylor "Handsome
Fight" of
continued parrying the guns until they had got them about half
Joseph Smith
their length into the room, when he found that resistance was and John
vain, and he attempted to jump out of the window, where a Taylor.
ball fired from within struck him on his left thigh, hitting the
bone, and passing through to within half an inch of the other
side. He fell on the window sill, when a ball fired from the outside struck
his watch in his vest pocket, and threw him back into the room.
After he fell into the room he was hit by two more balls, one
of them injuring his left wrist considerably, and the other Taylor
entering at the side of the bone just below the left knee. He Wounded and
Helpless.
rolled under the bed, which was at the right of the window in
the south-east corner of the room.

While he lay under the bed he was fired at several times from the stairway;
one ball struck him on the left hip, which tore the flesh in a shocking
manner, and large quantities of blood were scattered upon the wall and
floor.

When Hyrum fell, Joseph exclaimed, "Oh dear, brother Hyrum!" and
opening the door a few inches he discharged his six shooter in the stairway
(as stated before), two or three barrels of which missed fire.

Joseph, seeing there was no safety in the room, and no doubt

thinking that it would save the lives of his brethren in the The Death of
room if he could get out, turned calmly from the door, the Prophet.
dropped his pistol on the floor and sprang into the window
when two balls pierced him from the door, and one entered his right breast
from without, and he fell outward into the hands of his murderers,
exclaiming. "O Lord, my God!"

Dr. Richards' escape was miraculous; he being a very large

man, and in the midst of a shower of balls, yet he stood Willard
unscathed, with the exception of a ball which grazed the tip Richard's
end of the lower part of his left ear. His escape fulfilled Remarkable
Escape.
literally a prophecy which Joseph made over a year
previously, that the time would come that the balls would fly
around him like hail, and he should see his friends fall on the right and on
the left, but that there should not be a hole in his garment.

The following is copied from the Times and Seasons:—

TWO MINUTES IN JAIL.

Possibly the following events occupied near three minutes, but I think
only about two, and have penned them for the gratification of many
friends.

CARTHAGE, June 27, 1844.

A shower of musket balls were thrown up the stairway against the door
of the prison in the second story, followed by many rapid footsteps.

While Generals Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Mr. Taylor, and myself, who
were in the front chamber, closed the door of our room against the
entry at the head of the stairs, and placed ourselves against it, there
being no lock on the door, and no catch that was usable.

The door is a common panel, and as soon as we heard the feet at the
stairs head, a ball was sent through the door, which passed between us,
and showed that our enemies were desperadoes, and we must change
our position.

General Joseph Smith, Mr. Taylor and myself sprang back to the front
part of the room, and General Hyrum Smith retreated two-thirds across
the chamber directly in front of and facing the door.

A ball was sent through the door which hit Hyrum on the side of his
nose, when he fell backwards, extended at length, without moving his
feet.

From the holes in his vest (the day was warm, and no one had his coat
on but myself), pantaloons, drawers, and shirt, it appears evident that a
ball must have been thrown from without, through the window, which
entered his back on the right side, and passing through, lodged against
his watch, which was in his right vest pocket, completely pulverizing
the crystal and face, tearing off the hands and mashing the whole body
of the watch. At the same instant the ball from the door entered his
nose.

As he struck the floor he exclaimed emphatically, "I am a dead man."

Joseph looked towards him and responded, "Oh, dear brother Hyrum!"
and opening the door two or three inches with his left hand, discharged
one barrel of a six shooter (pistol) at random in the entry, from whence
a ball grazed Hyrum's breast, and entering his throat passed into his
head, while other muskets were aimed at him and some balls hit him.

Joseph continued snapping his revolver round the casing of the door
into the space as before, three barrels of which missed fire, while Mr.
Taylor with a walking stick stood by his side and knocked down the
bayonets and muskets which were constantly discharging through the
doorway, while I stood by him, ready to lend any assistance, with
another stick, but could not come within striking distance without
going directly before the muzzle of the guns.

When the revolver failed, we had no more firearms, and expected an

immediate rush of the mob, and the doorway full of muskets, half way
in the room, and no hope but instant death from within.

Mr. Taylor rushed into the window, which is some fifteen or twenty
feet from the ground. When his body was nearly on a balance, a ball
from the door within entered his leg, and a ball from without struck his
watch, a patent lever, in his vest pocket near the left breast, and
smashed it into "pie," leaving the hands standing at 5 o'clock, 16
minutes, and 26 seconds, the force of which ball threw him back on the
floor, and he rolled under the bed which stood by his side, where he
lay motionless, the mob from the door continuing to fire upon him,
cutting away a piece of flesh from his left hip as large as a man's hand,
and were hindered only by my knocking down their muzzles with a
stick; while they continued to reach their guns into the room, probably
left handed, and aimed their discharge so far round as almost to reach
us in the corner of the room to where we retreated and dodged, and
then I recommenced the attack with my stick.

Joseph attempted, as the last resort, to leap the same window from
whence Mr. Taylor fell, when two balls pierced him from the door, and
one entered his right breast from without, and he fell outward,
exclaiming, "Oh Lord, my God!" As his feet went out of the window
my head went in, the balls whistling all around. He fell on his left side
a dead man.
At this instant the cry was raised. "He's leaped the window!" and the
mob on the stairs and in the entry ran out.

I withdrew from the window, thinking it of no use to leap out on a

hundred bayonets, then around General Joseph Smith's body.

Not satisfied with this I again reached my head out of the window, and
watched some seconds to see if there were any signs of life, regardless
of my own, determined to see the end of him I loved. Being fully
satisfied that he was dead, with a hundred men near the body and more
coming round the corner of the jail, and expecting a return to our
room, I rushed towards the prison door, at the head of the stairs, and
through the entry from whence the firing had proceeded, to learn if the
doors into the prison were open.

When near the entry, Mr. Taylor called out, "Take me." I pressed my
way until I found all doors unbarred, returning instantly, caught Mr.
Taylor under my arm and rushed by the stairs into the dungeon, or
inner prison, stretched him on the floor and covered him with a bed in
such a manner as not likely to be perceived, expecting an immediate
return of the mob.

I said to Mr. Taylor, "This is a hard case to lay you on the floor, but if
your wounds are not fatal, I want you to live to tell the story." I
expected to be shot the next moment, and stood before the door
awaiting the onset.

WILLARD RICHARDS.

While Willard Richards and John Taylor were in the cell, a company of the
mob again rushed up stairs, but finding only the dead body of Hyrum, they
were again descending the stairs, when a loud cry was heard, "The
Mormons are coming!" which caused the whole band of murderers to flee
precipitately to the woods.

The following communication was written and sent to Nauvoo:—

First Message to Nauvoo.

CARTHAGE JAIL, 8:05 o'clock, p.m., June 27th, 1844.

Joseph and Hyrum are dead. Taylor wounded, not very badly.[1] I am
well. Our guard was forced, as we believe, by a band of Missourians
from 100 to 200. The job was done in an instant, and the party fled
towards Nauvoo instantly. This is as I believe it. The citizens here are
afraid of the Mormons attacking them. I promise them no!

W. RICHARDS,

JOHN TAYLOR.

N. B.—The citizens promise us protection. Alarm guns have been

fired.

The above note was addressed to Governor Ford, Gen. Dunham, Col.
Markham, Emma Smith, Nauvoo.

This letter was given to William and John Barnes, two mobocrats, who
were afraid to go to Nauvoo, fearing that the Mormons would kill them and
lay everything waste about Carthage; they therefore carried it to Arza
Adams, who was sick with the ague and fever, about two and a half miles
north of Carthage. He was afraid to go on the main road; and after two
hours persuasion Mr. Benjamin Leyland consented to pilot Adams by "a
blind road," and about midnight they started, and arrived in Nauvoo a little
after sunrise. They found the news had arrived before them, for about a
dozen men were talking about it at the Mansion, but not knowing what to
believe until Adams handed in the above official letter.

Footnotes:

1. This statement was made at Elder Taylor's request, that he might not
alarm his family he was, however, severely wounded, as the narrative in the
text bears witness. When the note above was being prepared, Elder Taylor
said, "Brother Richards, say I am slightly wounded;" and when it was
brought to him he signed his name as quickly as he could, lest the tremor of
his hand should be noticed and the fears of his family aroused (The Life of
John Taylor, pp. 144-5).
CHAPTER XXXIV.
GOVERNOR FORD IN NAUVOO—NEWS
OF THE MARTYRDOM—MESSAGES TO
NAUVOO—ARRIVAL OF THE BODIES—
SORROWFUL SCENES—THE BURIAL.

Thursday, June 27th (continued).—In the meantime the

Governor was making to the Saints in Nauvoo one of the most Governor Ford
infamous and insulting speeches that ever fell from the lips of in Nauvoo.
an executive. Among other things he said, "A great crime has
been done by destroying the Expositor press and placing the city under
martial law, and a severe atonement must be made, so prepare your minds
for the emergency. Another cause of excitement is the fact of your having so
many firearms. The public are afraid that you are going to use them against
government. I know there is a great prejudice against you on account of
your peculiar religion, but you ought to be praying Saints, not military
Saints. Depend upon it, a little more misbehavior from the citizens, and the
torch, which is already lighted, will be applied, and the city may be reduced
to ashes, and extermination would inevitably follow; and it gives me great
pain to think that there is danger of so many innocent women and children
being exterminated. If anything of a serious character should befall the lives
or property of the persons who are prosecuting your leaders, you will be
held responsible."

The Governor was solicited to stay until morning, but he

declined, and left Nauvoo at about 6:30 p.m.; and in passing Military
up Main Street his escort performed the sword exercise, Display.
giving all the passes, guards, cuts and thrusts, taking up the
entire width of the street, and making as imposing a show as they could,
until they passed Lyon's store, near the Masonic Hall. This was apparently
done to intimidate the people, as the Governor had remarked in his speech
that they need not expect to set themselves up against such "well disciplined
troops."
Soon after Captain Singleton and his company left for home.

When the Governor and his party had proceeded about three
miles from Nauvoo, they met two messengers (George D. Gov. Ford's
Grant and David Bettisworth) hastening with the sad news to Interception of
Grant ant
Nauvoo. The Governor took them back to Grant's house, one
Bettisworth.
and one-half miles east of Carthage, with him in order to
prevent their carrying the news until he and the authorities
had removed the county records and public documents, and until most of
the inhabitants had left Carthage. The Governor then proceeded towards
Carthage, when Grant took another horse and rode into Nauvoo with the
news that night.

Second Message to Nauvoo.

12 o'clock at night, 27th June,

CARTHAGE, HAMILTON'S TAVERN.

To Mrs. Emma Smith and Major General Dunham, &c.:

The Governor has just arrived; says all things shall be inquired into,
and all right measures taken.

I say to all the citizens of Nauvoo, my brethren, be still, and know that
God reigns. Don't rush out of the city—don't rush to Carthage—stay at
home, and be prepared for an attack from Missouri mobbers. The
Governor will render every assistance possible—has sent out orders
for troops. Joseph and Hyrum are dead. We will prepare to move the
bodies as soon as possible.

The people of the county are greatly excited, and fear the Mormons
will come out and take vengeance. I have pledged my word the
Mormons will stay at home as soon as they can be informed, and no
violence will be on their part, and say to my brethren in Nauvoo, in the
name of the Lord, be still, be patient, only let such friends as choose
come here to see the bodies. Mr. Taylor's wounds are dressed and not
serious. I am sound.
WILLARD RICHARDS,

JOHN TAYLOR,

SAMUEL H. SMITH.

Defend yourselves until protection can be furnished necessary. June

27th, 1844.

THOMAS FORD,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

Mr. Orson Spencer:

DEAR SIR:—Please deliberate on this matter—prudence may obviate

material destruction. I was at my residence when this horrible crime
was committed. It will be condemned by three-fourths of the citizens
of the county. Be quiet, or you will be attacked from Missouri.

M. R. DEMING.

It was near midnight before Dr. Richards could obtain any help or
refreshment for John Taylor, who was badly wounded, nearly all the
inhabitants of Carthage having fled in terror.

Friday, 28.—1 a.m. The Governor said the matter should be

investigated, and that there was a great responsibility resting Departure of
upon him. He also said he would send a messenger with an the Governor
from the
express for Dr. Richards, and wrote an order for the citizens of
Danger Zone.
Nauvoo to defend themselves.

He then went to the public square, and advised all who were present to
disperse, as he expected the Mormons would be so exasperated that they
would come and burn the town, whereupon the citizens of Carthage fled in
all directions, and the Governor and his posse fled towards Quincy, and did
not consider themselves safe until they had reached Augusta, eighteen miles
distant from Carthage.
Captain Singleton, of Brown county arrived in Carthage from Nauvoo with
his troops.

About 8 a.m. Dr. Richards started for Nauvoo with the bodies
of Joseph and Hyrum on two wagons, accompanied by their The Start for
brother Samuel M. Smith, Mr. Hamilton, and a guard of eight Nauvoo with
the Bodies of
soldiers who had been detached for that purpose by General
the Martyrs.
Deming. The bodies were covered with bushes to keep them
from the hot sun. They were met by a great assemblage of
citizens of Nauvoo, on Mulholland Street, about a mile east of the Temple,
about three p.m. under direction of the city marshal.

The City Council, the Lieut.-General's staff, Major. General Jonathan

Dunham and staff, the acting Brigadier-General Hosea Stout and staff,
commanders and officers of the Legion, and several thousands of the
citizens were there amid the most solemn lamentations and wailings that
ever ascended into the ears of the Lord of Hosts to be avenged of their
enemies.

When the procession arrived, the bodies were both taken into the Nauvoo
Mansion. The scene there cannot be described.

About eight or ten thousand persons were addressed by Dr.

Willard Richards, William W. Phelps, Esquires Woods and The Address of
Reid of Iowa, and Col. Stephen Markham. Dr. Richards Dr. Richards
et. al.
admonished the people to keep the peace, stating that he had
pledged his honor, and his life for their good conduct, when
the people with one united voice resolved to trust to the law for a remedy of
such a high-handed assassination, and when that failed, to call upon God to
avenge them of their wrongs.

O, Americans, weep, for the glory of freedom has departed!

When the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum arrived at the Mansion, the doors
were closed immediately. The people were told to go quietly home, and the
bodies would be viewed the next morning at eight o'clock.
Dimick B. Huntington, with the assistance of William Marks
and William D. Huntington, washed the bodies from head to Preparation of
foot. Joseph was shot in the right breast, also under the heart, the Bodies for
Burial.
in the lower part of his bowels and the right side, and on the
back part of the right hip. One ball had come out at the right
shoulder-blade. Cotton soaked in camphor was put into each wound, and
the bodies laid out with fine plain drawers and shirt, white neckerchiefs,
white cotton stockings and white shrouds. (Gilbert Goldsmith was
doorkeeper at the time).

After this was done, Emma (who at the time was pregnant) also Mary
(Hyrum's wife) with the children of the martyred Prophet and Patriarch,
were admitted to see the bodies. On first seeing the corpse of her husband,
Emma screamed and fell back, but was caught and supported by Dimick B.
Huntington. She then fell forward to the Prophet's face and kissed him,
calling him by name, and begged him to speak to her once. Mary, (the
Patriarch's wife) manifested calmness and composure throughout the trying
scene, which was affecting in the extreme. Relatives and particular friends
were also permitted to view the remains during the evening.

Saturday 29.—At 7 a.m. the bodies were put into the coffins which were
covered with black velvet fastened with brass nails. Over the face of each
corpse a lid was hung with brass hinges, under which was a square of glass
to protect the face, and the coffin was lined with white cambric. The coffins
were then each put into a rough pine box.

At 8 a.m. the room was thrown open for the Saints to view the
bodies of their martyred Prophet and Patriarch, and it is Lying in State.
estimated that over ten thousand persons visited the remains
that day, as there was a perfect living stream of people entering in at the
west door of the Mansion and out at the north door from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at
which hour a request was made that the Mansion should be cleared, so that
the family could take their farewell look at the remains.

The coffins were then taken out of the boxes into the little bedroom in the
northeast corner of the Mansion, and there concealed and the doors locked.
Bags of sand were then placed in each end of the boxes, which were nailed
up, and a mock funeral took place, the boxes being put into a hearse and
driven to the graveyard by William D. Huntington, and there deposited in a
grave with the usual ceremonies.

This was done to prevent enemies of the martyred Prophet and Patriarch
getting possession of the bodies, as they threatened they would do. As the
hearse passed the meeting ground accompanied by a few men, William W.
Phelps was preaching the funeral sermon.

About midnight the coffins containing the bodies were taken

from the Mansion by Dimick B. Huntington, Edward Hunter, The Real
William D. Huntington, William Marks, Jonathan H. Holmes, Burial.
Gilbert Goldsmith, Alpheus Cutler, Lorenzo D. Wasson, and
Philip B. Lewis, preceded by James Emmett as guard with his musket.

They went through the garden, round by the pump, and were conveyed to
the Nauvoo house, which was then built to the first joists of the basement,
and buried in the basement story.

After the bodies were interred, and the ground smoothed off as it was
before, and chips of wood and stone and other rubbish thrown over, so as to
make it appear like the rest of the ground around the graves, a most terrific
shower of rain, accompanied with thunder and lightning, occurred, and
obliterated all traces of the fact that the earth had been newly dug.

The bodies remained in the cellar of the Nauvoo House where they were
buried, until the fall, when they were removed by Dimick B. Huntington,
William D. Huntington, Jonathan H. Holmes, and Gilbert Goldsmith, at
Emma's request, to near the Mansion, and buried side by side, and the bee
house then moved and placed over their graves.

The deceased children of Joseph were afterwards removed and interred in

the same place. It was found at this time that two of Hyrum's teeth had
fallen into the inside of his mouth, supposed to have been done by a ball at
the time of the martyrdom, but which was not discovered at the time he was
laid out, in consequence of his jaws being tied up. * * * * * * *

[It is thought proper that this volume, which brings the HISTORY OF THE
CHURCH to close of its first Period—the administration of its First
President, and, by way of pre-eminence the Prophet of the New
Dispensation of the Gospel, should close with the official statement of the
Martyrdom of the Prophet and the Patriarch. A statement so true, and
conservative, and excellent that now for a long time it has been published in
the "Doctrine and Covenants."]

MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH SMITH, THE PROPHET, AND HIS

BROTHER HYRUM.

(From the Doctrine and Covenants).

To seal the testimony of this book and the Book of Mormon, we

announce the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and Hyrum
Smith the Patriarch. They were shot in Carthage jail, on the 27th of
June, 1844, about 5 o'clock p.m., by an armed mob, painted black—of
from 150 to 200 persons. Hyrum was shot first and fell calmly,
exclaiming, "I am a dead man!" Joseph leaped from the window and
was shot dead in the attempt, exclaiming, "O Lord, my God!" They
were both shot after they were dead in a brutal manner, and both
received four balls.

John Taylor and Willard Richards, two of the Twelve, were the only
persons in the room at the time; the former was wounded in a savage
manner with four balls, but has since recovered; the latter through the
providence of God, escaped, "without even a hole in his robe."

Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more (save
Jesus only) for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man
that ever lived in it. In the short space of twenty years he has brought
forth the Book of Mormon, which he translated by the gift and power
of God, and has been the means of publishing it on two continents; has
sent the fullness of the everlasting Gospel which it contained to the
four quarters of the earth; has brought forth the revelations and
commandments which compose this Book of Doctrine and Covenants,
and many other wise documents and instructions for the benefit of the
children of men; gathered many thousands of the Latter-day Saints,
founded a great city; and left a fame and name that cannot be slain. He
lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people, and
like most of the Lord's anointed in ancient times, has sealed his
mission and his works with his own blood—and so has his brother
Hyrum. In life they were not divided, and in death they were not
separated!

When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended

requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his
assassination, he said:

"I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's

morning; I have a conscience void of offense toward God and towards
all men. I shall die innocent, and it shall yet be said of me—he was
murdered in cold blood."

The same morning after Hyrum had made ready to go—shall it be said
to the slaughter? Yes, for so it was,—he read the following paragraph
near the close of the fifth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon,
and turned down the leaf upon it:

"And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord that He would give
unto the Gentiles grace that they might have charity. And it came to
pass that the Lord said unto me, if they have not charity, it mattereth
not unto you, thou hast been faithful: wherefore thy garments are
clean. And because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shall be made
strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared
in the mansions of my Father. And now I . . . bid farewell unto the
Gentiles; yea, and also unto my brethren whom I love, until we shall
meet before the judgment-seat of Christ where all men shall know that
my garments are not spotted with your blood."

The testators are now dead, and their testament is in force.

Hyrum Smith was forty-four years old, February, 1844, and Joseph
Smith was thirty-eight in December, 1843: and henceforward their
names will be classed among the martyrs of religion; and the reader in
every nation will be reminded that the Book of Mormon and this Book
of Doctrine and Covenants of the Church, cost the best blood of the
nineteenth century to bring them forth for the salvation of a ruined
world; and that if the fire can scathe a green tree for the glory of God,
how easy it will burn up the "dry trees" to purify the vineyard of
corruption. They lived for glory, they died for glory; and glory is their
eternal reward. From age to age shall their names go down to posterity
as gems for the sanctified.

They were innocent of any crime, as they had often been proved
before, and were only confined in the jail by the conspiracy of traitors
and wicked men; and their innocent blood on the floor of Carthage jail,
is a broad seal affixed to "Mormonism" that cannot be rejected by any
court on earth; and their innocent blood on the escutcheon of the State
of Illinois with the broken faith of the State, as pledged by the
Governor, is a witness to the truth of the everlasting gospel, that all the
world cannot impeach; and their innocent blood on the banner of
liberty, and on the magna charta of the United States is an ambassador
for the religion of Jesus Christ that will touch the heart of honest men
among all nations; and their innocent blood with the innocent blood of
all the martyrs under the altar that John saw, will cry unto the Lord of
Hosts, till He avenges that blood on the earth. Amen.

(END OF PERIOD I.)

INDEX TO VOLUME VI.

Affidavits of Delmore Chapman, 100; of Richards and Lewis, 103; Sission

Chase, Avery Case, 109; of Willard Richards, Nauvoo in danger, 119; of
Amos Chase, Elliott affair, 121; of Philander Avery, 122; of the Hamiltons,
123; of Orson Hyde, 145; of Daniel Avery, 145-148; of Abiathar B.
Williams, on conspiracy, 278; of M. G. Eaton on conspiracy, 279-280; of
Aaron Johnson, 350; Margaret J. Nyman et al. against Chauncey L. Higbee,
407; H. T. Hugins, Nauvoo threatened, 423; Thomas G. Wilson, on mob
movements, 480-481; of Stephen Markham, Nauvoo to be attacked, 492; of
Truman Gillett, 500; of Canfield & Belknap, 502; Call et al., 505-506;
Carlos W. Lyman, 507; Mount and Cunningham, 508; of Allen T. Wait, 509;
Morley et al., 510; Solomon Hancock et al., 511; James Guyman, 511-512;
Obediah Bowen, 512-513; of Alvah Tippetts, 514; Greene & Bernhisel,
516; John P. Greene, Jackson's threats, 522; of Joseph Smith, on conspiracy,
523; of Joseph Jackson, threats against the Prophet, 524; of Edward
Robinson, threats against Nauvoo, 528; James Olive, mob movements, 529;
George G. Johnstone, move on Nauvoo, 530; Gideon Gibbs, on mob, 530;
Luman Calkins, on conspiracy, 531-532; of Alfred Randall, threats against
the Prophet's life, 586; of Jonathan C. Wright, on conspiracy against
Prophet, 587; of O. P. Rockwell on Ford in Nauvoo, 588; of William G.
Sterrett, on Ford in Nauvoo, 589-590.

Apostles in conference, 11; return of to Nauvoo, 60; epistles of to Elders

and Churches abroad, 63-64; action of on publications, 66; minutes of
council meeting of, 223; instructed to send delegation to California, 222-
224; minutes of meeting of, 230; Appoint conferences in U.S., 334-335;
called home, 519.

Apostates in Nauvoo, excommunication of, 341; Plans for organization of

new Church, 346-347; collection of at Carthage, 560; reported intention to
plunder, 564.

Arms, public, for Legion, 31.

Avery, Daniel, held as prisoner in Missouri, 108; escape of from Missouri,

143; affidavit of treatment in Missouri, 145.

Avery, Philander, affidavit of, 122.

Address of the Mayor to Nauvoo police, 150-152.

Andrews, Benjamin, appeal of to the state of Maine, 178.

Bagby, Walter, injustice of to the Prophet, 4.

Babbitt, Almon W., preaches at Nauvoo, 34; refuses to obey orders, 514-
515; engaged as council against the Prophet, 600; visits Prophet in prison,
612-613.
Backenstos, W., marriage of to Miss Wasson, 43.

Badham, Richard, assaulted, 110.

Bennett, James Arlington, nominated for Vice-President U.S., 231-233-244.

Bettisworth, Constable David, arrests Prophet for treason, 561-562.

Botswick, Orsimus F., slanders of, 225.

Cahoon, Reynolds, urges Prophet to return to Nauvoo, 549, 552.

Carthage, Anti-Mormon meeting at, 4; and note, 43; disgraceful affair at,
171-173; complaints of citizens against Nauvoo ordinances, 173-174; Anti-
Mormon convention at, 221; citizens of, call for "wolf-hunt," 222.

Cartwright, Thomas and wife, baptism of, 160-162.

Chism, negro, case of, 281, 284.

Chase, Amos, affidavit of, 121.

Clay, Henry, letter of to the Prophet, 376; Joseph Smith's answer to, 376-
377.

Clayton, William, attends court at Dixon, 350; report of procedure of court,

380-384.

Cole, Mr., school teacher, 65-66.

Convention, Anti-Mormon, Carthage, 221; presidential at Nauvoo, 386-397.

Communications, (see letters).

Conference, minutes of, at Manchester, England, 2; and (note); in

Alexander, New York, 98; Brownstown, Michigan, 175; general at
Liverpool, England, 326-330; of the Twelve, Ralston Hall, Boston, 11-30;
special at Nauvoo, 47-52; in New York, 286; general of the Church, April,
1844, 287-300; Kalamazoo, Michigan, 425; Glasgow, Scotland, 426; at
Cypry, Alabama, 331; list of appointed in U.S., 334-335; presidents of
appointed in U.S., 335-340; at Pleasant Vallet, Michigan, 431.

Copeland Colonel Solomon, of Tennessee, invited to be candidate for vice-

president, 248.

Co-operation, plans of for store, 263.

Court, Municipal, petitioned for trial by Joseph Smith, 357-361, et seq.;

case of Jeremiah Smith before, 379, 418-420; minutes of in case of
Jeremiah Smith, 420-423; petition of Prophet before, Expositor case, 454-
456; hearing before, on Expositor case, 456-458; members of city council
before, 460-461.

Council special at Nauvoo, 39.

Dayton, Hyrum and Son, before mayor's court, 155.

Data, compilation of by historians, (note) 547.

Dunn, Captain, sent to demand state arms from Legion, 554-555.

Discourses, on sealing powers, 183-184; Elias, Elijah, Messiah, 249, 354;

on Conspiracies in Nauvoo, 272-274; on Prophetic Calling and Fullness of
Ordinances for Living and Dead, 363-367; Dissenters at Nauvoo, 408-412;
the Godhead, Plurality of Gods, 473-479.

Drama in Nauvoo, 349-350.

Dunham, Jonathan, on mission to Governor Ford, 61; made wharf-master,

229.
E

Elliott, John, arrest and trial of, 117-118.

Election, Presidential, 1844, who shall be candidate for, 187-188; Times and
Seasons editorial on, 214-217.

Excommunications of apostates, 341.

Expositor, Nauvoo, first and only number of, 430; declared a nuisance and
destroyed, 448; proceedings in city council against, 434-448; Francis M.
Higbee on destruction of, 451-452; comment of Neighbor on, 460.

F
Fanny, barque, arrives in New Orleans, 244.

Female Relief Society, Voice of Innocence from, 248.

Folsom, William H., clerk of New York conference, biography (note) 1.

Follett, King, death of, 248; biography, 249.

Ford, Governor Thomas, arrival of at Carthage, and accepts mob as militia,

542; interview of with Taylor an Bernhisel, 543-545; perplexity of, 552;
pacifies mob, 560; pledges faith of the state for fair trial of the Smiths, 561;
presents Joseph Smith to militia, 564; refuses to prevent false
imprisonment, 570-571; directs Justice R. F. Smith to use Carthage Greys,
598; holds militia council on visit to Nauvoo, 599-600; visit of to Nauvoo,
623; intercepts messengers with news of martyrdom, 624; course of at
Carthage, 625; flees from danger zone, 625.

Foster, Dr. R. D., misunderstanding of with Prophet, 332-333, 344-345;

seeks private interview with Prophet, 430.

Fielding, Amos, credentials of, 263.

Frierson, Colonel, represents John C. Calhoun, 81 (and note); drafts
memorial to Congress in behalf of Saints, 83, et seq. (and note.)

Fullmer, John S., with Prophet in Carthage prison, 600-601.

Geddes, Col. Thomas, with Governor at interview, Carthage prison, 576;

report of Governor Ford's statement on leaving prison, 585 (and note).

Greene, John P., returns from New York mission, 60; report of Foster
Higbee embroilment, 348-349.

Grant, Jedediah M., preaches at mansion, 356.

Greys, Carthage, boisterous conduct of, 559-560; revolt of, 564; left as
guard to Prophet and Patriarch, 606-607.

Hanks, Knowlton F., missionary, death of, 64.

Harris, Dennison, L. reveals conspiracy against Prophet, 280-281 (note).

Hedlock, Reuben, president of the British mission, 65-66; presides at

conference in England, 327-330.

Higbee, Francis M., charges Prophet with slander, 174; threatens Prophet
with bonds, 176; before Municipal Court, 178; before Esquire Wells for
assaulting police, 285; before Municipal Court, 357-361.

Higbee, Chauncey L., before Esq. Wells for assaulting police, 285;
affidavits against, 407.

Hodge, Abraham C., reports Prophet's determination to go West, 545; sent

on special mission to Carthage, 557.
Hunter, Edward, sent as special messenger to Governor Ford, 492.

Indians, Sacs and Foxes, visit of to Nauvoo, 401-402.

Jackson, Joseph, H., conversation of with Prophet; character of, 149 (and
note); attempt to arrest, 521; threats against Prophets, 569.

Johnson, Benjamin F., instructions of the Prophet to, 60.

Judd, Nelson, assault upon, 179-180.

Journals, importance to elders of keeping, 186.

Jones, Elder Dan, Prophecy upon head of, 601; with the Prophet in prison,
601, 621; sent by the Prophet with messenger to Gov. Ford, 602, 604.

Kay, William, in charge of immigrants from England, 244; arrives with

company at Nauvoo, 333.

Kimball, Heber C., address of at April conference, 324.

Legion, Nauvoo, muster of, 34; aid of applied for, 119.

Law, Wilson, doggerel written by, 210; cashiered from Legion, 362; seeks
to get warrant against the Prophet, 568.

Law, William, difficulty of with police, 162-165; reconciliation of with the

Prophet, 165; second trouble with police, 166-170; excommunication of,
341.

Letters: Governor Ford to the Prophet, 35; Reuben Hedlock to the First
Presidency, 44; H. R. Hotchkiss to Joseph Smith, 55; Heywood to Joseph
Smith, 62; Joseph Smith to the Saints in England, 69-70; James A. Bennett
to Joseph Smith, 71-73; Joseph Smith to Bennett, 73-78; Brigham Young to
John Page, 81-83; Ewing, state auditor, to Major John Bills, 95; Lamborn,
attorney-general Ill., Legion affairs, 95; McDougall, to state auditor on
Legion affairs, 96; Joseph Smith to Governor Ford, 100; Wilson Law to
Joseph Smith, 108; Joseph Smith, to Governor Ford, 109; Joseph Smith to
John Smith, 110; Governor Ford to Joseph Smith, 113; W. W. Phelps to
John White, 132; Joseph Smith to Governor Ford, affidavits, 153; Calhoun
to Joseph Smith, 155; J. Smith to Calhoun, 156-160; Twelve Apostles to
Saints at Morley, 176-177; Ford to citizens of Hancock county—warning,
189; Joseph Smith to Haywood—visit to Quincy, 213; Joseph Smith to
editor of Neighbor, 221; High Council to Saints in Nauvoo, 228-229;
Willard Richards to James A. Bennett, 231-233; Lyman Wight et al., to First
Presidency, 255-257; ditto to President Smith, 257-260; Young and
Richards to Hedlock, England, 351; P. P. Pratt to Joseph Smith et al., 354;
Charles C. Rich to Alanson Ripley, 355; Hyde's report to President Smith—
Western Movement, 369-376; Henry Clay to Joseph Smith, 376; Prophet's
answer to same, 376-377; William Clayton, reporting court procedure at
Dixon, 380-384; George A. Smith to Times and Seasons, 399-401; Richards
et al. to Central Election Committee, 404; Willard Richards to Orson Hyde
—Western Movement, 405-407; D.S. Hollister to Joseph Smith, election
matters, 416-418; Joseph Smith to Judge Pope, 422; Joel H. Walker to
Joseph Smith—Western Movement, 424-425; Joseph Smith's answer, 425;
"Horace" to Joseph Smith, 426; Joseph and Hyrum Smith to Tewkesbury,
427; Joseph Smith to I. Daniel Rupp, 428; Hickok to Joseph Smith, 450;
Hugins to Joseph Smith, 451; Washington Tucker to Joseph Smith, 458-
459; Prophet's answer to Tucker, 459; Joseph Smith to Governor Ford—
defense to Expositor case, 466; Bernhisel to Governor Ford, 467-468;
Wakefield to Governor Ford, 469; Sidney Rigdon to Gov. Ford, 469; Ladd
to Joseph Smith, 472; Joseph Smith to Gov. Ford—urges Governor to come
to Nauvoo, 480; Morley to Joseph Smith—mob threats, 481-482; John
Smith to the Prophet, 485; the Prophet's answer, 485-486; Hyrum Smith to
Brigham Young—calling home to Twelve, 486-487; Hugins to Joseph
Smith, 494; Joseph Smith to H. F. Hugins, 501; Joseph Smith to Ballantyne
and Slater, 515; Richards to James A. Bennett, 516-518; Foster to John
Procter, 520; Governor Ford to Mayor of Nauvoo, 521; Joseph Smith to
Gov. Ford—urging latter to come to Nauvoo, 525-527; Gov. Ford to Mayor
and City Council of Nauvoo—on Expositor affair, 533-537; Joseph Smith
in answer to above, 538-541; Joseph and Hyrum Smith to Gov. Ford, 550;
Joseph Smith to Hugins, 551; Joseph Smith to J. R. Wakefield, 551;
Johnston to Joseph Smith, 553; Joseph Smith to Gov. Ford, 556; Reid and
Woods to Joseph Smith, 558-559; the Prophet to Emma Smith, 565; Joseph
Smith to Gov. Ford, 575; Joseph Smith to Judge Thomas, 590; Miner R.
Deming to Joseph Smith, 593; Joseph Smith to Messrs. Woods and Reid,
595; William Clayton to Joseph Smith, 598-599; Joseph Smith to Emma
Smith, 605; P. S., 605; Richards, et al. to Saints at Nauvoo—second
message announcing martyrdom, 624-625.

Lytle, Andrew and John, trial of, before Municipal Court, 286.

Lyne, Thomas A., a tragedian, 349.

Loveland, Chester, threats of violence against, 504-505.

Maid of Iowa, arrives at Nauvoo with England passengers, 333.

Markham, Col. Stephen, attends court at Dixon, 350; with the Prophet in
Carthage prison, 592, 614; forced out of Carthage, 614.

Marks, William, police difficulties of, 166-170.

Marriage, plural, 46.

Metoka, sailing of, with Saints, 4.

Mansion, Nauvoo, made a hotel, 33; party and dinner at, 42.

Mormon, Book of, evidence of in ruins in America, 53-54; presented to

Queen Victoria—poem on, 181-183.
Miller, Bishop George, returns from mission, 61.

Mormonism, publications pro-et-con. for 1843, 154.

Mormons, improvements of, 195-196.

Misrepresentations, corrected, 67.

Missouri, peace proposals to, 218-220; "Friendly Hint" to, 245-247.

Mittimus, false, 569; second remanding Smith Brothers to prison, 597.

Memorial to U.S. Congress, 84, et seq; action of meeting on, 88; officially
signed by Mayor and city council, 116; of the city council to Congress, 125-
132; origin of Joseph Smith's Western Memorial, 270; memorial to
Congress, Joseph Smith's, 275; before House of Representative, 282 (note);
Joseph Smith's to President John Tyler, 281-282.

Meetings, public, at Nauvoo, 101; at Nauvoo—appeal to government on

local affairs, 107; at Nauvoo—aggressions of Missouri, 111-113; mass, at
Warsaw, 462-466; public at Nauvoo—to correct false reports, 483.

Nauvoo, prosperity of, 9; special session of city council of, 234-236; status
of, 1844, 265-267, destructive wind at, 267; status of at close of 1843, 377-
378; declaration of martial law in, 497.

New Orleans, branch organized in, 176; Neighbor, Nauvoo, on destruction

of Expositor, 460, 496.

Orders to city marshal, 103; reply, 104; Mayor's to Legion, 104; to Nauvoo
Legion, 119; to Wilson Law calling out Legion, 120; to Major-General to
Legion, 493; to A. P. Rockwood to notify guard, 494; general to Legion,
532; Joseph Smith to General Dunham—surrender of state arms, 556; to
bring prisoners into court, 596.

Ordinances, special in Prophet's case, 105; for erection of a dam in

Mississippi, 106; enlarging police force, 110; on sale of liquors, 111; to
prevent unlawful arrests by "foreign" process, 124; for the protection of the
Church of Latter-day Saints, 130-132; complaint of Carthage citizens
against, 173-174; on sale of liquors, 178-179; on witnesses and jurors' fees,
179; for protection of U.S. citizens, asking Congress to pass, 275-277;
concerning libels and other purposes, 433-434.

Osprey, election on board of for President of U.S., 384-385; captain of calls

on Joseph Smith, 451.

Owen, case of in Mayor's court, 4.

Packard, Noah, Memorial of to Massachusetts, 236.

Pacific Island, mission to, 71.

Page, John E., appointed to a mission to Washington, 81.

Petition to hear the Prophet, 533.

Phelps, W. W., mission of to Gov. Ford, 61; reads Prophet's Views at

Nauvoo, 211.

Phenomena, strange, reported, 121.

Police, names of special, 149-150; difficulty of with William Law, 162-165.

President, U.S., who shall be our next?, 39.

Pratt, Addison, on death of Elder Hanks, 64.

Proclamation to kings, instructions to write, 80; Joseph Smith to keep order
in Nauvoo, 449; of Joseph Smith against false charges, 484-485; of Joseph
Smith to Nauvoo marshal, 493.

Pratt, Parley, attends conference, Boston, 11; enthusiastic on appeal to

"Green Mountain Boys," 93-94.

Pratt, Orson, affidavit of against Higbee, 177-178; credentials of, 262.

Pugmire, Jonathan, Sen., et al., released from English prison, 160.

Rapids, Des Moines, canal around, 80 (and note).

Rigdon, Sidney, dissatisfaction of Prophet with, 46; appeals to

Pennsylvania, addresses conference, 288-295, et seq., nominated for vice-
presidency, U.S., 356.

Reid, John S., Prophet's lawyer in early experience, 377; address at Nauvoo,
early experience, 392-397.

Richardson, Mr., repents of part in Avery case, 133.

Richards, Dr. Levi, marriage of, 134.

Richards, Phinehas, appeals to Massachusetts, 193.

Rollasson, Mr., store robbed, 281.

Rockwell, Orrin Porter, accompanies Prophet in his start for the West, 548-
550-551; warned of Prophet to stay at Nauvoo, 565.

Richards, Willard, with Prophet in Carthage, 613-614; his "Two Minutes" in

jail, 619-621; announces the martyrdom of Patriarch and Prophet, 621-622;
conveys bodies of martyrs to Nauvoo, 626; addresses people at Nauvoo,
626.