Nauvoo City Council, Preamble to Ordinance, , Hancock Co., IL, between 8 and 10 June 1844; handwriting of ; notation in unidentified handwriting; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
An ordinance concerning libels and for others purposes.
Whereas the Saints in all ages of the world have suffered persecutions and death; by wicked and corrupt men under the garb <of> a most holy appearance of religion; And whereas the from the moment that its first “broke Sprung out of the earth” till now, has has been persecuted with death, destruction and extermination; and whereas men, to fulfil the scriptures, that a “man’s enemies are they of his own house hold,” have turned traitors in the church and combined and leagued w[i]th <the> most Corrupt scoundrels and villians that disgraced the earth unhung; for the heaven daring and damnable purpose of revenge on account of disappointed [p. 1]