<Oct 4> <Camp—> called the Kirtland camp, Number 1, for they— arrived at their destnation. and began to pitch their tents about Sun Set, when one of the brethren living in the place proclaimd with a loud voice “Brethren, your long and tedious journey is now ended. You are now on the public square of . This is the place where Adam blessed his posterity, when they rose up and called him Micha[e]l, the Pri[n]ce the Archangel, And he bei[n]g full of the Holy Ghost, predicted what shoud befal his posterity to the Latest Gene[r]ation see Doc & Covts..
I spent most of this day with my family.
<.> The mob again fired upon the saints at , who <were compelld to> retu[r]n the fire in self defense. To show how that fire brands arrows & death were scatte[re]d through the , and that too by men high in authority, & who were sworn to p[r]eserve the bublic [public] peace I quote the followi[n]g from to the , Dated “Booneville “Mo Oct 4th 1838. Dear Sir # (see Doc p 34) satisfy <hours> them <wa[rn]ing>. .” “Base and degraded beings”? Who ever heard before of high minded & honorable men’s condesceding to sacrifce their honor by stooping to wage war without a cause or provocati[o]n, againt “base & degraded beings”? But is ready with his whole division, at an “hour warni[n]g” to enter the field of battle on such degrading terms if his <own> statemnt is true. But knew better. He knew the were an innocent unoff[e]nding people, and would not fight only in self defenc[e],— and why ride <write> such a letter to the to infl[u]ence his mind? Why not keep truth and justice on your side? poor , the annals of Eternity shall will unfold to you who are the “base” beings, & what it will take to “satisfy” for the shedding of “Mormon blood.”
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“The Undersigned # See Doc p 36) J. P.”
This [illegible] day day also wrote the from Boonville <that> “in Carroll county the citizens are in arms for the purpose of driving the Mormon from that county.” [p. 22]