of all the different sects they hated us and that most cordially to, if there were generals they hated us if there were Colonels they hated us, and soldiers and the officers of every class hated us and the most profane blasphemers and drunkards and whoremongers hated us, they all hated us most cordialy, and now what did they hate us for? purely because of the testimony of Jesus Christ. Was it because we were liars? we know that it is reported by some but it is reported falsely. Was it because we have committed treason against the state in — or of burglary, or of larceny, or of arson or any other unlawful act in . We know that priest’s and certain lawyers, and certain judges who are the instigators, aiders and abettors of a certain gang of murderers and robbers who have been carrying on a scheme of mobocracy to uphold their againsts the saints of the last days for a number of years and who have by a well comtemplated and premeditated scheme to put down by physical opperation a system of religion that all the world by their mental attainments and by any fair meanes whatever were not able to resist—— hence mobbers were encouraged by Priests and Levites by the pharisees and saducees and essenees and the herodians and every other C. and ite a gauging on the most ruthless and abandoned and debauched and lawless and inhuman beastly set of men the earth can boast of and indeed a paralel cannot be found any where else together together to drive to steal and to plunder to strive to exterminate and to burn houses of the mormons,— these are the characters that by their treasonable and overt acts which has desolated and laid waste .— These are the characters that would fain make all the world believe that we are guilty of the above named acts:— but they represent us falsely— we stood in our own defence and we believe that no man acted only in a just a lawful and righteous retaliation against such murderers we say unto you that we have not committed treason neither any other unlawful act in . Was it for murder in against mob melitia who was a wolf in the first instance, hide and hair teeth legs and tail who afterwards put on a melitia sheepskin well tanned with the wool on who could sally forth in the day time into the flocks and snarl and show his teeth and scatter and devour the flock and [p. [4]]