“Elder arrived in this morning. I walked with him to 57 Temple St, and called upon Sister Vose: took the bed <​& gave vent to his feeling in tears​>, and I <​took​> the big chair, and I here veiled my face, and for the first time we gave vent to my <​our​> <​my​> grief and mourning for the Prophet and of the Church, Joseph and , who were murdered by a gentile mob: after being bathed in a flood of tears I felt composed. left the ; I spent the night at Bro. Phelps’.”

“On our return we stopped at , where the State Commissioners were joined by Col. Wood, the Mayor of , and Mr Conyers. The <​​> gentlemen had returned from through , and had been laboring to establish peace between the parties. The people of , however, appear to be averse to any compromise, short of the removal of the Mormons from the . They assert that it is now absolutely necessary to peace and quietness, that either the Mormons or citizens quit the , and that sooner or later one must go, even if force be necessary to accomplish it. Mr Jonas, one of the commissioners, addressed the citizens of , and called upon them to say whether they would support the in enforcing the law and upholding the constitution, and they unanimously refused to give the pledge. The same evening a of , who professed to speak in the name of the citizens of , uttered the same sentiment. He deprecated as impossible the idea of settlement if the Mormons were to remain. A committee of the citizens waited upon , informing him of their fixed conviction that it was necessary one of the parties should leave the , and [p. 273]