crets must be sent off before he read it which was done— and if it was near as I recollect as follows. That our enemies were now delivered in our hands & that we should have victory <​over them​> in every instance— this was a prophecy in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ— the latter stated that <​in the name of Jesus Christ​> he knew this by the spirit of prophesy — Since the return from — Jos. Smith Jr told me, that in refference to his plans, that if the citizens of & surrounding country rose and went out there to fight them, that he would <​intended to​> have men to slip in behind them, and lay waste the country & burn their houses— In the council in , a few days before the militia came out— I recollect, in making arrangements for the war. the presidency was to have the supreme <​rule​>, and that their war office, or head quarters were to be at — where <​Jos Smith Jr said​> they could have all necessary preperations to carry on the war in a war like manner— & they were to have gone in a day or two to take their seats— At the time Smith Jr & myself were under guard at he manifested a ◊◊eat disposition to converes [converse] about our difficulties ◊aid he heard I had turned against him, and proposed to me the idea of hanging together and of not testifying against each other, and if we suffer, all suffer together.— I felt myself awkwardly situated as I had heard that there was a combination of the Danites against me. I told him I would testefy nothing that <​but​> the truth, let it fall on whom it would— And further this saith not—