band for having spoken against , one of the presidency, it being a regulation of that Society that no one of the church should speak against them.— or hear any one else do it with impunity.— In that coucil said, it was an arrangement was made to dispose of the dissenters, viz. that all the head officers of the danite band should have a list of the dissenters, both here and in — and said he, I will tell you how I will do with them— I willWhen I meet one damning the presidency, I can damn them as well as he, and if he wanted to drink he would get a bowl of brandy & get them half drunk— and takeing him by the arms and he would take them <​him​> to the woods or brush, and said he “into their guts in a minute & put them under the sod”— he gave this as an example of the way they should be disposed of.— The only motive for do getting rid of the dissenter in this way, as far as I ever learned, was, that if they remained among the mormons they would introduce a class there that would ultimately endanger their lives & destroy the church, and if they went were suffered to go out from among them, they would be telling lies on them in the surrounding country, these reasons I gathered from s “salt sermon”. and, said in the same sermon, that he was willing <​would assist​> to erect a gallows on the square & hang them all.— Jos. Smith Jr was present and followed , after he had made the above declarations, & said that he did not wish to do any thing unlawful— he <​then​> spoke of the fate of Judas, and said that Peter had hung him Judas He said that he approved of s sermon & called it a good sermon [p. [63]]