Letter from Brigham Young, 16 October 1845
Citty of Joseph
Beloved Brother Woodruff we are in councel this
morning with the twelve in the upper room of Br Taylors
house formaly ocepite by James Ivens, we meet and pray twise
every day, by so doing we have benable to preserve our selvs
from the rath of our enemes, we have had a good deal of
Sorrow and trubble here this fall in concequence of sickness and
the mob, our enemes commenced burning homes in Lyma then came up
to Father Morleys neabhorhood they continued burning thill they destroyed a
bout 150 buildings and conciderable grane, then our Sherif J. B.
Backenstos. Ordered out a possee of several
hundred men and marched through the country
in order to disperse the rioters or take them
and bring them to justice. two or three
of them were killed and wounded, and the
remainder fled to Mo, or to the adjoining coune
ties, in order to avoid the law. this caused
a tremendous excitement around us and Mob
Meetings were held in Quincy and many other
places. threats, Inflamatory, Speaches were made
and resolutions passed to the effect that we
should leave the state or be exterminated. In
the mene Time the Governor ordered out a few
hundred men, who marched into the county, and
have now been here some Time, mostly at
Carthage but sometimes in this city. they
are sent to maintain the law, but they have
