Letter, Sidney Rigdon to Thomas Ford, 14 June 1844
Letter, Sidney Rigdon to Thomas Ford, 14 June 1844
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, Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to , , Sangamon Co., IL, 14 June 1844; handwriting and signature of ; docket in handwriting of ; four pages; Sidney Rigdon, Collection, CHL. Includes address, docket, and notation.
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See Historical Introduction to Letter to Thomas Ford, 14 June 1844.
varacity I must think so myself. This gentleman informs me that he has been in since Monday last at the land sales, and he heard threatnings by the persons assembled there that if they could get into that they would murder indiscrimenately. and those who wanted to escape must leave. This your I will abhor as I do. The citizens of this who do not reside in and those of other counties have indeed no interest of a personal kind at stake in this matter. There are no persons disturbing them nor a going to do so. And this great excitement does savor of something else to me than a regard for the laws, why not let the parties, as in all other cases of the kind settle their difficulties as the laws of the country in such cases have, Have the citizens of ever interfered [wi]th cases of difficulty existing in other parts of the held publick meeting to inflame the publick mind in favor of one party and prejudice it against the other party in any cases of difficulty in other parts of the , most assuredly they have not. Why then must the citizens of this place be scourged with such attempts?
If the citizens of want the supremacy of the laws maintained let these tumultuous assemblies disperce and let the civil officers if resisted do as in other cases. call for aid instead of assembling in advance and then call for persons to be brought into their midst as prisoners amidst threats and insults.
From the confidence I have in your excellencies <’s> superior intellegence, and sound discretion I doubt not by <but> your will arive at just conclusions <*> [p. [3]]
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