His excellency

Dr Sir

I address this letter to your by the hand of Mr in consequence of the difficulties now existing in this , difficulties in which I have and have had no concern and fearing as I do that in the midst of an excitement so great as I have understood now exists in this — I say understood for it is by report only that I can speak—there may be attempts made to prejudice your mind to take some measures of a violent character that may seriously effect the citizens of this place and injures innocent and off inoffending persons, which I am satisfied would greive your as will as every other thinking and humane man. There has for a length of time difficulties existed beetwen [between] a number of the citizens of this place which kept increasing, one of the parties had recourse to the Warsaw Signal as a medium through which they communicated their difficulties to the world. Those productions were inflamatory to a high degree. and the party thus assailed charged the matter as libellous, and highly abusive To these exposures, responces appeared in the papers of this place, charging <​the matter​> as being fals and the authers as defamers. and slanderers, Things continued thus untill a paper was established in this place called the Nauvoo [p. [1]]