Their supprise can under these curcumstances be easily immagined when a short time after they learned that said had gone before and made oath that he was forced to sign the instrument, by armed , and procured a warrant for the arrest of Jos Smith jr. & , which was placed in the hands of the Sheriff It was also reported that the said individuals had refused to surrender themselves and that an armed force was collecting to come and take them, Your memorialists aver that the Sheriff had never made any efforts to serve the writ, and that the said Smith and so far from making any resistance, did not know that such a writ had been issued until they learned <​it​> first by report as above related. In the meantime the rumor had run over the whole country that the Mormons, were compelling individuals to sign certain Instruments in writing. that they were resisting the process of the Law, The public mind became much [p. 15]