June 1844 is <​certainly​> the <​a​> man who performed mighty wonders; he not only compelled 2 innocent men by virtue of his office as Gov of to go before two different magistrates on the same charge, <​contrary to the constitution & laws of the ​> to surrender themselves into the custody of a Mob Magistrate <​(not the one who issued the writ)​>; go to Prison <​under a military guard​> on an illegal granted contrary to law, without any examination; put in a criminal cell without having been examined for crime; brought them out of prison contrary to law; thrust him back again under the most solemn & sacred pledges of his personal faith, & the faith of the <​for their protection​>; guarded them with men whom he knew to be treacherous; & to <​have resolved on the death of the prisoners;​> until they were murdered in cold blood, & then professed to be “thunder struck”— it is our wish to do strict justice to the memory of this heroic , consequently who in addition to the above named <​mighty ​> achievments on <​his death bed bequeathed to​> presented the astounded world a vol of 447 pages entitled History of Illinois from its commencement as a in 1818 to 1847 containing “a full account of the rise, progress & fall of Mormonism” from which we take the foll we copy the following <​“but the good cause​> (copy page 329 to page 354) Modern times” [p. 76]