Anti-Mormon representatives from the surrounding counties met in Carthage on 1 and 2 October 1845 to discuss the state of affairs in Hancock County and the Mormon offer to leave the state. The convention approved a number of resolutions echoing the earlier resolutions made in Quincy (reproduced below in this entry) and stated that it was “too late to attempt the settlement of the difficulties in Hancock county upon any other basis than that of the removal of the Mormons from the State.” Accordingly, the convention accepted Young’s 24 September offer to leave the state in the spring. (“Carthage Convention,” Quincy [IL] Whig, 15 Oct. 1845, [1].)
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.