Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
I left Scarboro on the and rode to Portland and dined
with my brother-in-law Ezra Carter and was about to take
steam boat in the evening for Thomastown and Fox Islands
but in the afternoon we obtained the Boston Times
containing the solemn information of the assassination of the
Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum
Next day I took the cars for Boston
and on the following met with the Saints. They mourned
the loss of the Prophet and Patriarch yet through our meeting
they were strengthened in the faith and the comfort of the
Spirit was with us so that we had a good time together
On the morrow I wrote a letter
to the Editor of the Prophet published in New York
by the friends of our martyred leader giving a word
of exhortation to the Saints abroad to maintain their
integrity and keep the faith and paitence of the
Saints unto death
The following morning we obtained
information from Quincy as late as June 29th giving
full accounts of the horrid affair at Carthage and the
tremendious loss which the Church had sustained.
The Governor himself acknowledged the death of Joseph
and Hyrum to be a wanton murder. The state of
Illinois was in commotion and the Governor Ford had
made Quincy his head quarters and issued a Proclamation
to the citizens of the state. The news of the day
stated that the Mormon Leaders in Nauvoo had done
all they could to restrain the disciples of the martyred
Prophet from vengeance still there was evidently a
disposition of both the people and the troops to destroy
Nauvoo lest the Mormons should hold a fearful
reckoning in the state in their desperation and despair
