[Edward William Tullidge] ask is the constitution of the United State or if this State
dangerous? No. Neither are the charters granted
unto Nauvoo by the Legislature of Illinois and those
who say they are, are fools.

We have not our rights. Those which
the Constitution of the United States grant and which
our charters grant we have not enjoyed unmolested.
Missouri and all wicked men will raise the Hue
and cry against us and are not satisfied. But what
are they going to do to help them selves? What will
mobocrats do in the midst of this people. If mobs
come upon you any more here dung your gardens
with them. But says one you will get up excitement.
We will get up no excitement except what we can
find an escape from. We will rise up Washington-
like and break off the wheight which bears us down
and we will not be mobbed.

To give you an account of my journey
I will tell you an anecdote which may be pleasing

A day before I was taken I rode
with my wife through a neighbourhood to visit some
friends; and I said to Mrs Smith, "Here are a
good people". I felt this by the Spirit of God.
The next day I was in their hands ^midst^ a prisoner ^and^
with^they stood by me^ Wilson who said as he drove up, "Ha! ha! ha!
By God we have got the Prophet!" He gloried
much in it but he is now our prisoner.

When Reynolds of Missouri and
Wilson of Carthage came to take me ^instead^
^of tapping^ me on the shoulder and saying
"You are my prisoner" with two cocked pistols at
my head their first salutation was "God damn
you I will shoot you! I will shoot you. God
damn you I will shoot you!"

This they did nearly fifty ^times^ first
and at last, I asked them what the wanted to shoot
me for.

ask is the constitution of the United State or if this State dangerous? No. Neither are the charters granted unto Nauvoo by the Legislature of Illinois and those who say they are, are fools.

We have not our rights. Those which the Constitution of the United States grant and which our charters grant we have not enjoyed unmolested. Missouri and all wicked men will raise the Hue and Cry against us and are not satisfied. But what are they going to do to help them selves? What will mobocrats do in the midst of this people. If mobs come upon you any more here dung your gardens with them. But says one you will get up excitement. We will get up no excitement except what we can find and escape from. We will rise up Washington like and break off the weight which bears us down and we will not be mobbed.

To give you an account of my journey I will tell you an anecdote which may be pleasing

A day before I was taken I rode with my wife through a neighbourhood to visit some friends; and I said to Mrs Smith, "Here are a good people". I felt this by the Spirit of God. The next day I was in their midst a prisoner and they stood by me Wilson said as he drove up, "Ha! ha! ha! By God we have got the Prophet!" He gloried much in it but he is now our prisoner.

When Reynolds of Missouri and Wilson of Carthage came to take me instead of tapping me on the shoulder and saying "You are my prisoner" with two cocked pistols at my head their first salutation was "God damn you I will shoot you! I will shoot you. God damn you I will shoot you!"

This they did nearly fifty tines first and last, I asked them what the wanted to shoot me for.