Indictment, circa 10 April 1839 [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 (Daviess Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; docket and notations by with probable signature of Robert P. Peniston Sr., [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO], [ca. 10 Apr. 1839]; eleven pages; partial manuscript in Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL. Complete photocopy in Max H. Parkin, Collected Missouri Court Documents, CHL.
instructions, resolution, orders, declarations adresses, and writings and and their said false maliciously and traitorously cause to be published publish. and did then and there maliciously and traitorously cause to be published divers other pamphlets, letters, instructions, resolutions, orders declarations, addresses and writings, the said pamphlets, letters, instructions, resolutions, orders declarations, addresses, and writings so respectively composed, writen published, and Caused to be composed writen, and published purporting and containing, therein, among other things, incitments, encouragements, and exortations to move, induce, and pursuade the Citizens of our said to levy war against our said and to adhere to the enemies of our said and to give them aid and comfort in time of war— and the said defendants and further to fulfill, perfect and bring to effect their most evil and wicked treason and treasonable compassings and imaginations aforesaid and in order the more readily and efectually to assemble such Convention and meeting as aforesaid for the tratorous purposes aforesaid, and thereby to accomplish the same purposes. the said Defendants as such false traitors as aforesaid on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight aforesaid and on divers other days. and times as well before as after with force and arms at the County of aforesaid did meet Consult and deliberate among themselves. and together with divers other false traitors whose names are to Jurors aforesaid unknown of and concerning the Calling and assembling such Convention and meeting. as aforesaid for the traitorous purposes aforesaid and how when and where such Convention and meeting should be assembled and held— and by what means, the Citizens of our said should and might [p. 3]