Letter from Warren Parrish, 28 June 1836

was the only way for us to escape the  hands of the mob, who were hardly re strained from acts of violence. One  of the brethren present offered to pay  the cost and all advised us to accept  the offer, although in its nature most  insulting, for if we were really guilty  of a violation of the laws of this state,  their oath of office obligated them to  bind us over to trial before the circuit  court. But this was not the fact; we  were not guilty, and this last step proves  to a demonstration that they (the court)  did not consider us so; and shows that  oaths, obligations and the rights of  man were disregarded, and the whole  scenery from beginning to end was  controlled and governed by a set of  ruthless ruffians, who are sunk in the  lowest depths of degradation and infa my, of whom the devil himself ought  to be ashamed.