Preamble and Resolutions, 13 January 1845, Draft
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Nauvoo City Council, Draft of Preamble and Resolutions, , Hancock Co., IL, 13 Jan. 1845; handwriting of , , and ; docket in handwriting of ; five pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.

succeed the citizens will be involved in continueal Larcenies & neighborhood broils & crimes the end of which cannot now be foreseen. We deprecate such evils and calamities because we desire the good of all mankind as gratuitous labors of the greater portion of citizens in spreading truth throughout the world under much poverty & suffering abundantly prove. As for us, our course is fixed & while we are peaceable & Loyal to the constitution & laws of our & are ever willing to join hands with the honest virtuous & patriotic in suppresing crime & punishing criminals we will leave our enemies to judge whether it would not be better to make one universal burying ground before we suffer ourselves to be driven from our hard earned and lawful homes by such high handed oppression.* But for the satisfaction of all concerned we reiterate in the following resolutious sentiments that we have always expressed in all places as occasion demanded.
Resolved, first that the greater part of the thefts which have been complained of are not in our opinion true in fact, but have been trumped up by inimical persons in order to cover their aggressive doings, with plausibility & entice honest & unwary citizens to unite with them in the same uncompromising hostility against this people [p. [2]]
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