We have come here by order of the to see what the disposition of the Mormons were. if they were going to avenge <​revenge​> themselves of the blood of Gen Smiths, which was occassioned by the late disturbances and we are going to to see what is going on there and see if they are still determined to attack the City of and the is still determined to enforce the law at all hazards for he does not mind his popularity or reputation and he will try & find out the perpretrators of this diabolical deed & he is going to offer a reward so that the Murderers may be brought to Justice, and the further hopes that the people of will keep the law, be peaceable and publish nothing which may excite the inhabitants of the Surrounding Country— so that they may have no cause for to make an attack upon this and the is not going to ask any thing more of you than what he is going to ask of the people of & — and we wish you to lay down all your arms

— on the morning of this diabolical deed— I called out the Legion myself and made a speech to them as there is a number of persons here which will bear me witness that we would wait with patience— <​& to​> be calm, <​&​> be cool, and think & say nothing which might tend to create excitement and wait to see if the would avenge those which perpretrated that horrid deed and if he fails we <​will then​> call th to Almighty God who sits in the heavens for to Avenge those who have assisted in the late disturbances and spilt the blood of <​these​> two honorable men who now lies low and their blood now [p. [1]]