what is for the happiness and peace of this city and
people for our enemies are determined to oppress us
and deprive us of our rights and privileges as they
have done; If the authorities that be on the
earth will not assist us in our rights nor give
us that protection which the laws and constitution
of the United States and of this State guarantee
unto us then we will claim them from Higher
Power—from Heaven—from God Almighty for
our constitutional rights

I swear I will not deal so mildly
with them again for the time has come when
forbearance is no longer a virtue; and if you are
again taken unlawfully you are at liberty to give
loose to blood and thunder but act with
Almighty power

But good luck to me as it
always has been in every time of trouble, friends
though they were strangers were raise up ^un^to me
and assisted me. The time has come when
the veil is torn off the people of the State of Illinois
and they have delivered me from the State of
Missouri. The friends who were raised up
unto me would have spilt their blood for me
to have delivered me then and there but I told
them not for I should be delivered by the power
of God and Generalship

I have brought the men who
arrested me to Nauvoo and treated them kindly. I
have had the privilege of rewarding them good for
evil. They took me unlawfully, treated me rigorously,
strove to deprive me of my rights and would have
run me into Missouri to have been murdered
had not Providence interposed; but now they
are in my hands. I took them into my house
set them at the head of the table and placed the
best before them my house afforded and they were
waited upon by my wife whom they deprived of

what is for the happiness and peace of this city and people for our enemies are determined to oppress us and deprive us of our rights and privileges as they have alone; If the authorities that be on the earth will not assist us in our rights nor give us that protection which the laws and constitution of the United States and of this. State guarantee unto us then we will claim them from Higher Power — from Heaven — from God Almighty for our constitutional rights.

I will not deal so mildly with them again for the time has come when forbearance is no longer a virtue; and if you are again taken unlawfully you are not liberty to give loose to blook and thunder but act with Almighty power.

But good luck to me as it always has been in every time of trouble, friends though they were strangers were raise up to me and assisted me. The time has come when the veil is torn off the people of the State of Illinois and they have delivered me from the State of Missouri. The friends who were raised up unto me would have spilt their blood for me to have delivered me then and there but I told them not for I should be delivered by the power of God and Generalship.

I have brought the men who arrested me to Nauvoo and treated them kindly. I have had the privilege of rewarding them good for evil. They took me unlawfully, treated me rigorously, strove to deprive me of my rights and would have run me into Missouri to have been murdered had not Providence interposed; but now they are in my hands. I took them into my house set them at the head of the table and placed the best before them my house afforded and they were waited upon by my wife whom they deprived of