was sent to , relative to a power of Attorney—

<​23 Democratic Association​> Saturday 23. At a meeting of the Democratic Association held this evening at , Adams County, Illinois, Mr. Lindsay introduced a resolution setting forth, that the People called “Latter Day Saints”, were many of them in a situation requiring the aid of the Citizens of , and recommending that measures be adopted for their relief; which resolution was adopted, and a committee consisting of eight persons appointed by the Chair— of which Committee J. W. Whitney was Chairman. The Association then adjourned to meet on Wednesday evening then next, after instructing the Committee to procure the Congregational Meeting house as a place of meeting, and to invite as many of [HC 3:263] the people to attend the meeting as should choose to do so, in whose behalf the meeting was to be held, and also all others, citizens of the town. The Committee not being able to obtain the meeting house, procured the Court House for that purpose.

<​Prison.​> After we were cast into prison, we heard nothing but threatenings, that if any judge or jury, or court of any kind should clear any of us, that we should never get out of the alive. This soon determined our course, and that was to escape out of their hands as soon as we could, and by any means we could. After we had been some length of time in prison, we demanded a of , one of the Judges, which, with some considerable <​Great threatenings​> reluctance was granted. Great threatenings were made at this time by the mob that if any of us were liberated we should never get out of the alive. After the investigation was released from Prison by the decision of the ; the remainder were committed to jail. He also returned with us until a favorable opportunity offered: through the friendship of the Sheriff, Mr. Samuel Hadley and the jailor, Mr. Samuel Tillery, he was let out of the jail secretly in the night; <​after having declared in Prison that the sufferings of Jesus Christ were a fool to his​> and being solemnly warned by them to be out of the with as little delay as possible, he made his escape. Being persued by a body of armed men, it was through the direction of a kind providence that he escaped out of their hands and safely arrived in , Illinois—