<Oct 7> Sunday 7. < preachd at , <commonly> called the Salt sermon. # <See Margin>> <# There were 7 cut off from the in , England, this day.>
< Letter> wrote f[r]om, “Brigade Headquates [Headquarters], 5 miles from , Carroll County. Sir, <#> (see Doc, 37) can tell,” ”
<Howard Communication> Under the same date from the camp near . eleven, blood-thirsty fellows, viz congrave Jackson, Larkin K. Woods, Thomas Jackson, Rolla M. Daviess James Jackson Jr, Johnson Jackson John L. Tomlin Sidney S Woods, Geo Crigler, Wm L. Banks, and Whitfield Dicken wrote a most inflammatory, Lying, and murderous piece communicati[o]n to the citizns of Howard county, callind [calling] upon their fri[en]ds & fellow citizns to com[e] to th[e]ir immdat [immediate] rescue as the Mormes [Mormons] were then firing up[o]n them and th[e]y would have to act on the defensive until th[e]y could procure more assistance. TheLordrememberthesemen. A. C. Woods, a citizen of Howard County made a cirtificate to the same lies, which he gath[ere]d in the mob camp; he did not go into . or take any trouble to learn the truth of what he certifi[e]d. TheLordremember such men. <While> The people will lie. and the authorities will uphold them, what Justice can honest men expect? On the
<9> Tuesday the 9. wrote the from Boonville that “the names subscribed to the enclosed paper <(as befor stated 7th instnt)>, are worthy, prudence prudent & patriotic citizns of Howard Co.” Men who would leave their familiss and every thing dear, and go to a foreign county, to seek the blood of innocent men women & children, If this is prudece. constitute “worth, prudece & patrioti[s]m” Let me be worthless, imprud[e]nt, & unpatriotic,
<News from > <10th.> The messenger <Mr Caldwell,> who had been dispatchd to the for assistance, MrCaldwell, return[e]d, but instead of recivd <recing> [receiving] any aid, or even Sympathy— from his , We were told that “the quarrel was between the Mormons and the Mob,” and that “we might fight it out” About this time a mob <.> commanded by Hiram Standly took ’s goods out of his house, and said Standly set fire to ’s [p. 24]
TEXT: This pound symbol corresponds to another pound symbol in the left margin of this page, indicating that the text in the margin should be inserted here.
TEXT: This pound symbol in the margin of the page corresponds to another pound symbol at the top right of the page, indicating that the text in the margin should be inserted where the first symbol appears.