burnt, an armed company of TWELVE MEN [Mormons] rode up to Mr. Raglin's house, in Daviess county, where I resided. They inquired for John Raglin. I told them where he had gone. They said their object was to drive the mob [the citizens] from the county, and that I must go. I replied that I could not; that I had no way to get off, and that my family were barefooted. They replied, that made no difference, I must go; and said, if I was not gone by next morning's sun-rising, they would take my life! They told Mrs. Raglin she must put out; that there she could not stay, and that Raglin had better never show himself there; that they would take his life if they ever set their eyes on him. Next morning, by the assistance of friends, we did start, leaving most of our property there. Since then I have returned, and found the houses burnt, and the property gone, consisting of household stuff and TWENTY-NINE

"They further said that they were at the defiance of any set of men that could come against them; and that they now intended to make it A WAR OF EXTERMINATION!!

"Allen Rathbun, a witness for the State, produced, sworn, and examined, deposeth and saith: On the day before the battle with Bogart, I was in Far West; and early in the morning, Daniel Carn, one of the defendants here, asked me to help him grease his wagon. I did so, and asked him where he was going. He said he was going out to Mr. Raglin's, in Daviess county; that THERE WERE ABOUT FORTY BEE-STANDS THERE, that they were going for. Directly after, I was at Morrison's store, in Far West. There was a company of ten or a dozen men there, with two or three wagons. I heard Mr. Huntington ask for brimstone. Some of the company said they had two pounds. Huntington answered that would do. Mr. Hunter, of the defendants, here gave the word of command, and they marched off, Mr. Daniel Carn with his wagon with them. Late that evening, I saw Mr. Carn's wagon at his grocery door, in Far West. I saw Carn and Huntington unloading it. It was loaded with one bee-gum and household stuff, consisting of beds or bedclothes, KINDER tied up; also there were onions in the wagon. Mr. Carn, that evening, remarked, that there would be in, that night, a considerable number of sheep and cattle; and further remarked, that it looked to him sometimes that it was not right to take plunder, but that it was according to the directions of Joseph Smith, Jr., and that was the reason why he did it. The next morning, I saw a considerable number of sheep on the square in Far West, - near about one hundred! I then left Far West, and returned home, (in the east part of

Caldwell county,) having been summoned to Far West by my militia captain, but performed no military duties while there. "And further this deponent saith not.

ALLEN RATIOUN.'

"Andrew J. Job, a witness for the State, produced, sworn, a.. amined, deposeth and saith: 'While the Mormon troops were in Daviess county, in the last expedition, I was taken prisoner by Captain Fearnought, (as he was called,) who, I have since learned, was a Mr. Patten. While they were getting me into 'Diahmon about midnight, I passed on between Millport and that place, and counted ten houses on fire.

"After I left 'Diahmon, I went to my step-mother's, and made efforts to get out of the county. After the Mormons surrendered at 'Diahmon to the militia, I went with my step-mother to 'Diahmon, to hunt for her property, which had been left at the house when she moved, and which was missing on her return, such as beds, bedclothing, knives and forks, a trunk, &c. On examination, we found at the house of LYMAN WIGHT, and upon his bedstead, a feather bed, which I KNEW to be the one left by her at the time she fled from the Mormons. I knew the bed from its appearance; the tick was striped and pieced at the end, and the stripes of the piece turned crosswise; also, we found in Wight's house a set of knives and forks, which I knew were the same left at her house, as above stated. My step-mother left her residence, (in two miles of 'Diahmon,) where she left the above articles, on Wednesday before I was taken prisoner, which was on the Sunday night after; and when at 'Diahmon, the night I was a prisoner, I slept on that same bed, as I believed it to be, at one Sloan's, as I understood his name to be. When my step-mother left her home near 'Diahmon, where the above articles were left, she went into the lower part of Daviess; to which place 1 went when turned loose as a prisoner. My father's name is Robert Job.

"And further this deponent saith not.

his "ANDREW J. JOB.'"

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"Burr Riggs, a witness for the State, produced, sworn, and examined, deposeth and saith :

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"While in 'Diahmon, I saw a great deal of plunder brought in, consisting of beds and bed-clothes; I also saw one clock, and I saw thirty-six head of cattle drove in, and put into a pen. All the above property was called consecrated property; and I heard John L. Butler, one of the Mormons who was engaged in assisting to drive the cattle in, say that they had taken the cattle from the citizens of the Grindstone Fork; and said he had made a valuable expedition. I saw Ebenezer Robinson there, who had a gun-barrel in his hand. I asked him where he got it, and he told

me that the evening before he had set a barn on fire, and that he heard the gun go off while the house was burning, and he went back and got the barrel out of the ruins of the barn.

"Two or three days before the surrender of the Mormons to the militia at Far West, I heard Joseph Smith, Jr., say that the sword was now unsheathed, and should not again be sheathed until he could go through these United States, and live in any county he pleased, peaceably. I heard this from him, also, before the last expedition to Daviess, when Gallatin and Millport were burnt, as well as afterwards, and I heard it on several occasions.

"John Whitmer, a witness for the State, produced, sworn, and examined, deposeth and saith: 'About the 17th of April last, at a meeting of perhaps fifteen or twenty-five, in Far West, Joseph Smith, Jr., spoke in reference to difficulties they had, and their persecutions, &c., in and out of the church. Mr. Smith said, he did not intend in future to have any process served on him, and the officer who attempted it should die; that any person who spoke or acted against the Presidency or the Church should leave the country or die; that he would suffer no such to remain there; that they should lose their head.

"Among others, I conversed with Alanson Ripley. I spoke of the supremacy of the laws of the land, and the necessity of, at all times, being governed by them. He replied that, as to the technical niceties of the law of the land, he did not intend to regard them; that the kingdom spoken of by the prophet Daniel had been set up, and that it was necessary every kingdom should be governed by its own laws. I also conversed with on the same

subject, who answered, (when I spoke of being governed by the laws, and their supremacy,) "When God spoke, he must be obeyed,” whether his word came in contact with the laws of the land or not; and that, as the kingdom spoken of by Daniel had been set up, its laws must be obeyed. I told him I thought it was contrary to the laws of the land to drive men from their homes; to which he replied, such things had been done of old, and that the gathering of the Saints must continue, and that dissenters could not live among them in peace.

"I also conversed with Mr. J. Smith, Jr., on this subject. I told him I wished to allay the (then) excitement, as far as I could do it. He said, the excitement was very high, and he did not know what would allay it; but remarked, he would give me his opinion, which was, that if I would put my property into the hands of the Bishop and High Council, to be disposed of according to the laws of the Church, he thought that would allay it, and that the Church, after a

while, might have confidence in me. I replied to him, I wished to control my own property. In telling Mr. Smith that I wished to be governed by the laws of the land, he answered, "Now, you wish to pin me down to the law."

"And further this deponent saith not.

"JOHN WHITMER.'"

"George W. Worthington, a witness on behalf of the State, produced, sworn, and examined, deposeth and saith: 'It was on Thursday, about the 18th day of October last, that Gallatin was taken by the Mormons. I reside in about a quarter of a mile of town. About one hundred Mormons, commanded by Captain Patten, as I have since learned, rushed into town; seven or eight of the citizens were there, who immediately fled. A portion of the Mormons (about fifty) surrounded my house. They took a horse, saddle, and bridle out of my yard, belonging to John A. Williams, of Daviess county. They attempted to take my mare also, but ultimately agreed to let me have her; but they took my gun. I wished to know the name of the man who got it, so that I might get it at some future day. The captain told me I need not ask for names; for they would not be given; they then all went up into town, as they said, to attend to that store; shortly after, three or four of them returned to my house again; and one of them was Joel S. Miles, one of the defendants here; they came after a Mormon girl, who was at my house; and they told me that, if I belonged to neither party, I had better put off, and take the best of my property with me. After they left, I went up into town, to see after some books, notes, and accounts, I had up in town; but could not get hold of them, as they had been taken. I met with one of the company, some distance from Stolling's store, who told me if I would go to 'Diahmon, I could get them, as well as a coat-pattern, which had also been taken. This person advised me to go to 'Diahmon or Far West for protection. I turned off from him to return home. I looked towards the storehouse, and saw the smoke in the roof; and in a short time the flames burst out of the top of the house. I thought it best then for me to put out, seeing they were burning. It alarmed me, and I fixed, and did start, that evening, leaving something like $700 worth of property in my house. After I left, my house was burnt, and the property gone. Since then, I have seen some of my property in a vacant house in 'Diahmon; some in a storehouse; some in a house said to be Bishop Knight's; all in 'Diahmon, These articles consisted of a clock, two glass jars, a box-coat, a paper of screws, some paints, a canister of turpentine, and some planes, chisels, squares, &c. "And further this deponent saith not.

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"GEO. W. WORTHINGTON.'

"Patrick Lynch, a witness for the State, produced, sworn, and examined, deposeth and saith: 'I was living in Gallatin, a clerk in Stolling's store, when the Mormons took that place, which was about

the middle of October last. When the Mormons had approached to within fifty or one hundred yards of the storehouse, I left, having first locked the door, and deposited the key in my pocket. I ran into the brush, between one hundred and two hundred yards of the storehouse, where I saw them taking the goods from the house; some were packed off on horses; and after that, when near half a mile off, I saw wagons, apparently loaded, which I believed to be goods from the store. I have found a number of articles taken from the store in 'Diahmon, since the surrender of arms there by the Mormons-such as tin-ware, painted muslin, a piece of bleached domestic, a piece of brown cloth, a lady's cloak, three pair of scales, and a part of two sets of weights, a leger and three day-books, and the notes of hand to the amount of perhaps $300, were taken from the store. The books have not been recovered, but the notes I found in the house of Bishop Knight, at 'Diahmon, in the possession of his wife, except such notes as were on Mormons; these we have not recovered. In about three hours after the Mormons took Gallatin, I returned, and found the storehouse burnt. The post-office and treasurer's office were kept in the storehouse, and the records, papers, &c., belonging to each, were either taken off by the Mormons or consumed by the fire.

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"And further this deponent saith not.

"PATRICK Lynch.'”

REMARKS BY WAY OF ADDENDUM.

The moiety of testimony now in my possession is here closed, and I rest the case with the public. The evidence is conclusive on all points, and the facts are sustained by unimpeachable witnesses. The reliance of the Mormons on BRIBED and PERJURED witnesses; their confidence in the falsehoods of R. D. Foster, "that notable liar, scoundrel, and villain," as General Robinson calls him; their EXCOMMUNICATION (letters of Marque and Reprisal) of Colonel Orson Pratt, simply because he defended his innocent and abused wife against the calumnies of BAAL; their heralding and trumpeting forth the wild and incoherent sayings of Miss Eliza Rigdon, uttered during her recent severe sickness, when she was perfectly delirious, (laboring under mental hallucination at the acme of consecutive exacerbations of high febrile and cerebral excitement, consequent upon an attack of Pneumonia Typhoides,) knowing that by the declarations of so good and pious a