| 453 "I hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit, was this day subscribed and duly sworn to before me by the said James Allred.
"DANIEL H. WELLS,
"Justice of the Peace
"July 16, 1840."
-Times and Seasons vol. 1, pp. 141, 142.
A similar statement was also made by Brown.
This was the occasion of a public meeting held in Nauvoo, at which resolutions were passed expressive of their feelings on the subject. The following are the minutes of the meeting:-
"At a meeting of the citizens of Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 13th July, 1840, Elias Higbee was called to the chair and R. B. Thompson was appointed secretary.
"On motion a committee was appointed to report resolutions expressive of the sense of this meeting, consisting of the following persons; to wit: Isaac Galland, R. B. Thompson, Sidney Rigdon, and D. H. Wells, who retired and after a short absence reported the following preamble and resolutions which were unanimously adopted.
"PREAMBLE.
"The committee appointed to express the sense of this meeting in relation to the recent acts of abduction and other deeds of cruelty and inhumanity committed upon our citizens by the citizens of the State of Missouri, beg leave respectfully to report;
"That having under consideration the principal matters involved in the discharge of their duty, they have been forced to arrive at the following conclusion.
"lst, That the people of Missouri not having sufficiently slaked their thirst for blood and plunder, are now disposed to pursue us with a repetition of the same scenes of brutality which marked their whole course of conduct towards us during our unhappy residence among them.
"2dly, That notwithstanding they have already robbed us of our homes-murdered our families, stolen and carried away our property, and to complete the measure of their infamy as a State their Executive caused unoffending thousands
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