innocent man, and my blood shall cry from the ground for vengeance, and it shall yet be said of me ‘he was murdered in cold blood’.” He then said to , “go, and God bless you.” then rode as swiftly as he could to . <-[Sherwood]->
< left the company there, and continued his journey to .>
This order for the delivery of the State Arms was evidently designed to drive the citizens of to desperation, so that in the heat of their indignation they might commit some overt act which the could construe into treason, and thus have a shadow of excuse for his mob militia to destroy the Mormons.
Ats request<ed> the company <to> returned to to assist in collecting the arms, he having <and> pledged his word as a military man that Joseph Smith and his friends should be protected even if it should be <were> at the expense of his own life, and his men having responded to that pledge by three cheers. no doubt feared that the order of the would excite the inhabitants of beyond endurance, and therefore chose rather to depend upon the well known integrity of Gen. Smith than to risk the chances of exciting the wounded feelings of a much abused people. <-[T&S. & .]-> [p. 4]