Indictment, circa 10 April 1839, Copy [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Indictment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, [ca. 10 Apr. 1839], State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Boone Co., MO, Circuit Court 1840). Copied 20 April 1839; handwriting of ; certified by , 20 Apr. 1839; docket and notations by , [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO], [ca. 10 Apr. 1839]; notation by , [Columbia, Boone Co., MO], 12 July 1839; twelve pages; document destroyed. Photocopy at State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. Includes seal.
that the Persons to be assembled at such meeting should and might wickedly and traitorously without authority, and in defience of the laws of this , levy war against our said and subvert and cause to be subverted and altered the Legislature, Rule and Government of this , now duly and happily established in this — And further to fulfil, Perfect and bring to Effect their most Evil and wicked Treason and Treasonable Compassings, and immaginations aforesaid and in order the more readily and effectually to Assemble such convention and meeting as aforesaid for the Traitorous purposes aforesaid and thereby to accomplish the said Purposes the said Defendants as such false Traitors as aforesaid together with Divers other false Traitors whose names are to the Jurors unknow[n]. The said Defendants as such false Traitors as aforesaid with force and Arms, on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty-Eight and on Divers other days and times as well before as after at the County of aforesaid, maliciously & traitorously did compose and write and did then and there maliciously and Traitorously cause to be composed and written Divers Pamphlets, Letters, Instructions, resolutions, orders, Declarations, Addresses and Writings, and did then and there Maliciously and traitorously Publish and did then and there Maliciously and Traitorously cause to be Published Divers other Pamphlets, Letters, Instructions Resolutions, orders Declaration [p. 3]