sides of the river.

There were scenes transpired in the seige enough to melt
the heart of a stone. The lynching of men when they are labouring for
a living and whipping them until they cannot stand alone as the mob
did was a damnable thing. They made them kneel on a spot where
they said some one was buried and placed them in a position so they
could be whipped easy. An old Revolutioneer was one of them
and he was so beaten by the mob that he has not been able to get
about all summer. I have an old grandfather—a Revolutioneer
I have thought I would not let him know anything about it but
keep it from him that his feelings might not be harrowed up as
he is about ready to sleep in his grave. But I will say no
more but give way for brother Cutler

Brother Cutler said:
I can bear my testimony that
what brother Wells has said is strictly true. If I were to talk
till sundown the whole could not be told. I have been kept
in Nauvoo by the hand of God. Others wanted to have been
here and would have been had it not been necessary to stop to
save our brethren there who could not get away. I know the hand
of God has been manifest in the salvation of the people in Nauvoo
I thank God I had a hand in the battle. And the hand of God was
so visible in that battle that many who were weak and faltering have been
much strengthened by it and will gather with the Saints. I did not expect
that God would deliver their enemyies into their hands but expected that
He would save them out of the hands of their enemies and this he had
done.

I was sensible we must leave Nauvoo. The time
had come for us to depart. God has called upon us to go and if we
will not he will let the mob loose upon us to drive us out but they
will not get any glory for it but will have to suffer for their wrongs
to the Saints.

I hope the day will come when we shall not

sides of the river.

There were scenes transpired in the seige enough to melt the heart of a stone. The lynching of men when they are labouring for a living and whipping them until they cannot stand alone as the mob did was a damnable thing. They made them kneel on a spot where they said some one was buried and placed them in a position so they could be whipped easy. An old Revolutioneer was one of them and he was so beaten by the mob that he has not been able to get about all summer. I have an old grandfather—a Revolutioneer I have thought I would not let him know anything about it but keep it from him that his feelings might not be harrowed up as he is about ready to sleep in his grave. But I will say no more but give way for brother Cutler

Brother Cutler said:

I can bear my testimony that what brother Wells has said is strictly true. If I were to talk till sundown the whole could not be told. I have been kept in Nauvoo by the hand of God. Others wanted to have been here and would have been had it not been necessary to stop to save our brethren there who could not get away. I know the hand of God has been manifest in the salvation of the people in Nauvoo I thank God I had a hand in the battle. And the hand of God was so visible in that battle that many who were weak and faltering have been much strengthened by it and will gather with the Saints. I did not expect that God would deliver their enemies into their hands but expected that He would save them out of the hands of their enemies and this he had done.

I was sensible we must leave Nauvoo. The time had come for us to depart. God has called upon us to go and if we will not he will let the mob loose upon us to drive us out but they will not get any glory for it but will have to suffer for their wrongs to the Saints.

I hope the day will come when we shall not