persecutors to bring vexatious lawsuits villianous prosecutions, and even stealing not excepted, In the midst of this career, for fear (of) the Saints would seek redress at at their hands, they breathed our threatnings of mobs and actually made attempts with their gang to bring mobs upon them. and his gang, such of them as belonged to the church, were called to an account by the church for their iniquity, they confessed repentence and were again restored to the church, But the very first opportunity they were again practising their former course, while this wickedness was going on in and his Company were writing letters to in order to destroy the characters of every person that they thought were standing in their way, And and were assisting to prepare the way to throw Confusion among the saints of , During the full career of & ’s Bogus money business got abroad into the the world that they were engaged in it and several Gentlemen were preparing to commence a prosecution against he finding it out, took with him , and fled to with their families, stealing property & bringing it with him, which has been within a few weeks past obtained by the owner, by means of a search warrant and he was saved from the penitentiary by the influence of two influential men of the place. He also brought notes with him upon which he had received pay and made an attempt to sell them to of . And on his arrival reported that he had a note of one thousand dollars against a principal man of this Church, when it was a palpable falsehood, and he had no such thing, and he did it for the purpose of inJuring his character. Shortly after and left for they were followed by , on whose arrival a general system of slandering and abuse was Commenced by you all, for the purpose of destroying the characters of certain individuals whose influence & strict regard for rightousness you dreaded, and not only yourselves but your wives and children led by Yourselves were busily engaged in it, neither were you contented with slandering and vilifying here but you Kept up continual Correspondence with your gang of marauders in , encouraging them to go on with their iniquity which they did to perfection by swaring false, to injure the characters and property of innocent men stealing cheating lying instituting vexatious lawsuits selling Bogus money and also stones and sand for bogus in which nefarious [p. [15]]