| 422 we request that they may be delivered with as little delay as possible.
"Respectfully, yours,
"(Signed) "A. S. GILBERT.
"JOHN CORRILL.
"W. W. PHELPS.
"EDWARD PARTRIDGE
"JOHN WHITMER
"P. S.-We will thank You for a written communication, in answer to this letter, and the accompanying order."-Times and Seasons, vol. 6, p. 1075.
They waited on Colonel Lucas until the 29th, when upon receiving no reply from him, they wrote again to the Executive, as follows:-
"LIBERTY, Missouri, May 29, 1834.
"Sir:-Your communication to us of May 2 containing or inclosing [enclosing] an order on Colonel S. D. Lucas for the arms which were forcibly taken from us last November, was received the 15th inst., and the order forwarded to Colonel Lucas, at Independence, on the 17th, giving him the privilege of returning our arms at either of the several ferries in this county. His reply to the order was, that he would write what he would do the next mail (May 22). But as he has removed to Lexington without writing, we are at a loss to know whether he means to delay returning them for a season, or entirely refuse to restore them.
"At any rate, the excitement, or rather spite of the mob, runs so high against our people, that we think best to request your Excellency to have said arms returned through the agency of Colonel Allen or Captain Atchison. Report says the arms will not be returned, and much exertion is making by the mob to prevent our return to our possessions in Jackson County. We also understand that the mob is employing certain influential gentlemen to write to your Excellency, to persuade us to compromise our matters in difference with the Jackson mob, and probably divide Jackson County. We ask for our rights and no more.
"Respectfully, your Excellency's servants,
(Signed) "W. W. PHELPS.
"JOHN CORRILL.
"A. S GILBERT.
"EDWARD PARTRIDGE."
-Times and Seasons, vol. 6, pp. 1075, 1076.
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