Closing Argument of Onias Skinner, 29 May 1845 [State of Illinois v. Williams et al.]
Source Note
, Closing Argument, [, Hancock Co., IL], 29 May [1845], State of IL v. Williams et al. (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1845); unidentified handwriting, possibly ; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL, ca. 29 May 1845]; eight pages; Mormon Trial Notes, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL. Includes docket.
you do, do quickly— but he did not say The was now in — had left to communicate to the troops the change of the in the plan—
The in says in a special message that the killing of the Smiths was publicly talked of in — And he in that message speaks of private communications of an intention of that kind— he may now learn through his agent him , that these special confidential correspondents of his are villians—
We are told <by > that there is a prejudice again[st] the Anti Mormons of — <throughout the > From whence does it come— from the , who has in his messages published to the world the statements of this perjured [William] Daniels—
Daniels has published a book and sent it out to the world as containing a true statement of the murder—
has read a notice in apapernewspaper the “Illinois State Register” of November 8— 1844 published at Ill[inois] by Walters & Weber— printers to the —
As ones about <[illegible]>— as one of the means of getting up the prejudice against the Anti Mormons— and also several other parts of this same paper, published for the same purpose— Now what is the foundation of all these charges this publicity made under [p. [4]]