| 322 use all his influence for peace; that he is a peaceable and quiet citizen, and is not worthy of death, of stripes, bonds, or imprisonment.
"The above-mentioned speech was delivered on the day before the surrender of Far West.
"Alanson Ripley.
"Heber C. Kimball.
"William Huntington.
"Joseph B. Noble
"Joseph Smith, Jr.
"State of Missouri,)
}ss.
"County of Clay.)
"This day personally appeared before me, Abraham Shafer, a justice of the peace within and for the aforesaid county-Alanson Ripley, Heber C. Kimball, William Huntington, Joseph B. Noble, and Joseph Smith, Jr., who being duly sworn, doth depose and say that the matters and things set forth in the foregoing petition, upon their own knowledge, are true in substance and in fact, and so far as set forth upon the information of others, they believe to be true.
"Alanson Ripley.
"Heber C. Kimball.
"William Huntington.
"Joseph B. Noble.
"Joseph Smith, Jr.
"Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 15th day of March, 1839.
"Abraham Shafer, J. P.
"We, the undersigned, being many of us personally acquainted with the said Joseph Smith, Jr., and the circumstances connected with his imprisonment, do concur in the petition and testimony of the above-named individuals, as most of the transactions therein mentioned we know from personal knowledge to be correctly set forth, and from information of others, believe the remainder to be true.
"Amasa Lyman.
"H. G. Sherwood.
"James Newberry.
"Cyrus Daniels.
"Erastus Snow.
"Elias Smith."
-Persecution of the Saints, pp. 205-215.
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