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Mr. Strang, the new prophet at Voree, comes down on the Twelveite paper at Nauvoo, in the following style:

"New Paper at Nauvoo -- We have just got our eyes on the first and second nos. of the 'Hancock Eagle,' a new paper just started at Nauvoo. It professes to be entirely disconnected with the Mormon Church. The profession is doubtless just, but in a very different sense from that intended by the editor, It is most decidedly Brighamite. Its defense of the Mormons, against the spirit of persecution and its addvocacy of the supremacy of the law, is eminently just, but its pretended faith in the moral purity of the company just started into the wilderness we look upon as mere cant and shere hypocricy. We might attribute this to the unsuspecting credulity of a stranger if there were not false statements in the paper where a stranger cannot be deceived; this for instance: 'the Twelve,; (the soul of the institution) 'having gone; and with them the acting spirit of Mormonism, Those who remain behind appear like stray sheep, and are to all intents and purposes a one-idea party, inasmuch as their united energies all tend to one point -- the road to California.'"


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The Lafayette (Ind.) Journal thinks the plea of necessity for expelling the Mormons from this State was a poor one, and cites several atrocities recorded in history, as having been perpetrated under such plea. The only instance on record that we can compare to the Mormon expulsion, is the American Revolution. It was the plea of necessity that forced our fore-fathers to throw off the British yoke and assert their claims to the common rights of man. The people of Hancock, too, were aroused by long continued wrong and oppression, and as in the Revolution, the necessity of the case demanded that the oppressor should leave the soil. We hardly think our contemporary of the Journal would be willing to brand our Revolutionary fathers as guilty of mobocracy, in standing up against the oppressor even to the shedding of blood; -- and yet, men were not wanting in those days, to brand the Revolutionary movement as a "mob," and the actors in it as "traitors," &c. The fact is, the press abroad has been carried away by the clamor which has been raised by the demagogues and others interested in some way with the Mormons, and condemn without investigation. If the Journal editor has any doubt as to the justice of the "plea of necessity," which governs the anti-Mormons in bringing the controversy to a forcible conclusion, we would invite his attention to the anti-Mormon address published in our last paper. He might discover something in that which would clear up his mental vision."


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GOVERNOR'S  MESSAGE.

... It is with much satisfaction that I am enabled to state, that the people called the Mormons have been removed from the state. The great body of them removed voluntarily; but, a small remnant of them were barbarously expelled with force, and in a manner which reflects but little credit on the State or its institutions. Much difficulty has ever existed between this people and the neighbors by whom they have been surrounded; from which it was apparent, that their continuance amongst us would have been the fruitful source of frequent wars and tumults, alike disagraceful to the State, above the power of the constitutional authorities to suppress, demoralizing to the residue of the inhabitants and encouraging to a spirit of anarchy and disregard of law, subversive of republican government. The difficulties with the Mormons, and my proceeding as Fund Commissioner ex-officio, for the last two years, will be made subject of special reports to the House of Representatives.... THOMAS FORD.

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We have received the first number of the "Nauvoo New Citizen," S. Slocumb, proprietor, and Dr. Isaac Galland, editor. -- The paper is democratic anti-Mormon in character, and intended more particularly as an organ of the new citizens.


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ROMANCE  OF  MORMON  HISTORY.

The following is a copy of a writ issued by the civil authorities of the city of Nauvoo. The Nauvoo City charter has in it (sec. 17) the following clause. "The Municipal Court shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases arising under the ordinances of the city council." As this naked provision was not sufficiently strong for the purposes of the Mormons, they underyook most dishonestly and corruptly, to stretch it by ordinance of their city council. They accordingly passed an ordinance in substance declaring that in all cases of arrest within said city (no difference under what authority) their imnipotent writ of "Habeas Corpus" should operate. They also passed an ordinance subjecting all process issued out of the city to an examination and endorsed approval of Jo Smith, before the same should be served in said city.

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State of Illinois, City of Nauvoo,

Special Term of the Municipal Court of Nauvoo, Aug. 8, 1842.

The Judges of Said Court --
To Thos. C. King of the County of Adams and State aforesaid -- Greeting:

We command you that you do forthwith, without excuse or delay, bring or cause to be brought before this Court, at their Chambers in the city of Nauvoo, the body of Joseph Smith by whatever name or condition he is known or called, and who is unlawfully detained in your custody as it is said, together with the day and cause of his caption and detention, then and there to perform and abide such order and detention under the penalty of what the law directs. In testimony whereof we have set our hands and affixed the seal of said court, this 8th day of Aug. A. D. 1842.

(seal)   Orson Spencer,
Chief Justice, pro tem...

This is one of the several instances of an executive writ from a sister State being thus evaded and worse than resisted -- no man ever believed the Mormon Court had any jurisdiction in such case. Yet Jo refused to come with the ifficer, and was by his own creatures at Nauvoo discharged. The records of Nauvoo will show many strange ordinances and proceedings, which is now perhaps scarce worth the trouble of looking up. It is proper to remark that the officer in this case refused to obey the writ, and not being able to enjoin it, he left Jo in the hands of his friends and they formally discharged him.

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GOV. FORD'S REPORT UPON THE MORMON DIFFICULTIES. -- We did intend to have given this report entire -- but so much has been said and written on the subject of these difficulties, that our readers will be satisfied, we are sure, with a summary of its content.

He sets out with the statement, that the anti-Mormons, "with clubs and other weapons," surrounded the court and forced an anti-Mormon Jury upon the court for the trial of the persons indicted for the assassination of the Smiths -- and the Mormons having control of the county court, and the Sheriff in their favor, found no difficulty in getting a jury favorable to the Mormons indicted for destroying the printing office at Nauvoo. Of course each party was acquitted. The State could not change the Venue and under the circumstances the administration of justice was at an end in that county so long as the Mormons remained. In the fall of 1845, he says a portion of the anti-Mormon party burned down 150 or 175 houses of all sorts, with a view to the expulsion of the Mormons. The sheriff of the county with a posse from Nauvoo, drove the anties from their homes, while the Mormons from Nauvoo were ravaging and plundering the surrounding country. In this state of the case he sent over Hardin to reconcile matters, who succeeded in forming a treaty with the Mormons under the direction of the Governor -- they agreeing to leave in the spring of '46. During the disturbance, the Mormons and the Sheriff, succeeded in killing Worrell, McBratney, Daubenheyer and Wilcos; and the anti-Mormons killed Durfee.

Gen. Hardin disbanded his main force and left the riflemen to guard the country. Although 16,000 Mormons left in the spring, and but a few remained, the anties were not the less anxious to rid the country of the remainder. Writs were accordingly sworn out for the arrest of persons in Nauvoo -- who refusing to be taken, a posse was raised from the neighboring counties, "ostensible to make the arrests, but really to expel the Mormons." The trustees of Nauvoo applied to the Governor for assistance, and he despatched Maj. Parker with ten men to their relief. The constable's posse, however, refused to give place to Parker, and continued to increase until it reached 800 men. Things began to look more squally than ever, when M. Brayman, Esq., was sent over to inquire into matters. Soon after his arrival a treaty was formed between Col. Singleton and the Mormons, which treaty was not acceptable to a majority of the anti-Mormons, and Mr. Thomas S. Brockman of Brown county was put in command of the constable's posse. Here the Governor seems to be in the dark, as he knows nothing of the movements of the anti-Mormon force until they set themselves down directly before Nauvoo with the intention of marching in. At this juncture, a Me, Bidamon came to Springfield for more assistance -- when the Governor issued an order to Maj. William G. Flood, the commander of the militia in Adams county, by which he was authorised to raise sufficient force to suppress the riot. The Major being of the opinion, that for every volunteer he could raise to defend Nauvoo, double the number would have joined the other side, declined to act. He proceeded to Nauvoo to use his influence in behalf of peace, where he handed over his authority to the people of Nauvoo, who elected Major Clifford to command them.

With all his leaning to the Mormon side of the question, the Governor is compelled to the conclusion, "that such were the prejudices of our fellow citizens against the Mormons, that it was, and is, my solemn conviction that no sufficient volunteer force could have been raised to have fought in their favor. If a draft had been ordered, such was the disaffection of the public mind to this service, that the forces which might have been raised in this way would have been more likely to have joined the rioters and swelled their numbers, than to have fought in the defence of the Mormons."

The anti-Mormons according to the Governor, amounted to about 800 men. The forces in Nauvoo, to about 250, which were diminished to about 150. The former had five cannon, the latter four or five, made from steamboat shafts. The antis marched to within half a mile of the Mormons, and commenced a fire which they continued until they had exhausted their ammunition, when they retreated in "some disorder to their camp." In this manner says the Governor, was the fight kept up for three or four days, during which time the Mormons lost two men and a boy, and the anti-Mormons one man. He estimates from seven to nine hundred cannon balls were fired on each side, and the reason no more damage was done, was because the parties remained such a safe distance apart. Finally, the Mormons, through the intervention of a committee from Quincy, were induced to submit and remove from the State. After the anties had taken possession of the city, the "leaders erected themselves into a tribunal to decide who should be forced away, and who remain." New settlers were brought before this tribunal, who had been fighting for the Mormons, and were sentenced to be "ducked" in the river and forcibly driven away before the bayonets of armed men" -- "and it is said the houses of most of them were forced open, and their property stolen during their absence." But the Governor has the candor to acknowledge that this stealing might have been done by the Mormons as well as the anti-Mormons.

The remainder of the report is taken up with the details of his late expedition to Hancock, with which our readers, no doubt, are familiar. He is of the opinion, that as soon as his force is withdrawn from the county -- the 15th of the present month -- "the expelled citizens who have been restored to their homes," through his exertions, will be again expelled. We hope the Governor is laboring under a wrong impression.

He speaks of his midnight visit to Carthage at the head of 44 of his brave recruits in search of the arms supposed to be concealed in that village -- but through the vigilance of the wicked anti-Mormons, the expedition resulted, as heretofore stated, by our Carthage correspondent.

He concludes by recommending that the Riflemen be paid for their services, $1.00 per day; and the soldiers more recently at Nauvoo in the service of the State, be paid $1.25 per day.

The above contains the most prominent points of the Governor's report. It will at once strike the reader in reading it, that the Governor has no particular partiality for the anti-Mormons, and although he pretends to give facts, it is plainly seen to which side he inclines. That petticoat affair has done the business, and the anti-Mormons need not expect fairness or justice at his hands.


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THE TROOPS WITHDRAWN. -- We learn from the Warsaw Signal, that the troops stationed at Nauvoo by Gov. Ford in obedience to the wishes of the Mormon sympathisers, have been withdrawn and disbanded by Gov. French. This is as it should be. -- In withdrawing them, he addressed a short communication to the citizens of Hancock, intimating that the presence of a force in that county was no longer required, and that he relies upon their assistance and influence to aid in preventing acts of violence in future. We hope and believe, that the confidence reposed in the people of Hancock by Gov. French, will not be misplaced -- and that discord and misrule having departed from the county with the Mormons -- order and quiet will once more reign in Hancock."

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Backenstos, the Illinois sheriff, who acted such a conspicuous part as the ally of the Mormons in the Illinois war, has proved a defaulter to a large amount of taxes and collections on executions not paid over. -- The Mormons are a set of thieves, and it seems their allies are no better than themselves. --  Lou. Jour.


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