17 Missourians armed came of over the river below Warsaw and kidnaped 4 of our bretherens and carried them over the river & whiped two of them almost to death The names of those that they whiped is Noah Rogers & the other by the name of Bois the others Jas. Alred & Alansow Brown bro. Alred they striped & tied to a tree & drawed the lash over him but did not whip him brother Brown they hung up by the neck until he was almost dead. Pretending they had stolen some goods from a little town where they had the bretheren ^prisoners^ called Tully in Missouri & they thus tortured them to make them confess & they would not receive any thing for a confession only what they would dictate so to save life the bretheren confessed what they wished. finally bro. Brown ran away from them & they set brother Alred at liberty & sent the rest to Palmyra Jail where they are at this time all this without any eveden ce of their guilt & we have petitioned the govenor of this state to have them brought back & those ^that^ have thus abused them brought back to Justice which we think the govenor of Missouri will not comply with and if not it will end in difficulties between the State of Illinois & Missouri as govenor Carlin says he is determined to carry it it out according to the strict letter of the law.