Lydia Knight's History / The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives

f truce spoken of in the previous chapter was sent out, and

e bent her knees in humble petition for the safety of her children a

were trying to devise means to p

ame in to say, "Joseph has go

t him!" rep

Robinson, have gone along with Col. Hinkle to see if something can't be done t

erminatin

nt an order to this host of robbers outside the town, telling them that they are to wipe out every one of us? Giving

ia, "I was very

Clark who has command of the whole, and this precious trio are now trying to make arrangements to murder us all in cold blood! This

be filled with humblest prayer, that God

ishes that "God would exterminate them root

ideous sounds from the mobbers' camp. Looking anxiously from the wind

ch who decoyed him out has betray his Prophet, his religion and his God! Listen to those awful

am full of

wer. I must go now, my girl. You know my very soul is bowed with prayer to God to preserve my wife and

nd, and I feel that w

o every house, down into the low places, high over the tree-tops sounded the piercing, shrieking yells of that blood-thirsty mob. The flesh would creep at the fiendish sounds, the heart would quiver with the fearful though that Joseph, the beloved one, was in their power. Ten thousand wolves could never make a sound so hi

, anxious prayer. The next morning, the

ews that the Patriarch and Brother Amasa Lyman we

torn with anxious fears, and yet the

ook from the window! Here is an army marching upon us. Good by and God protect

to the square, where the signal drum was beating long and loud. On

own private property, no one ha

, you rascal, or I

elpless man complied, seeing that ma

ere true Saints. And were they not

uare they were all forced to obey th

bayonet to sign a deed of trust of all their (the "Mormons'") pos

laging, foraging, insulting women and abusing little children. Stock were shot down and left on the streets to rot. Fields were destro

ooked river. At last three ruffians came to Lydia's door, and one

der guard," answered

any man in

and is on the public

ny arms in

took his rif

the ferocious men, were fri

do you not see how fright

no men or arms

s a prisoner on the square, an

you've got plenty of Mor

l left the house, leaving the brave but trembli

hey could, weeping, sorrowing and sad, but peaceful and full of the testimony that all suffering was in Christ Jesus, and H

to get out of the state. Only a few short months were given

the Prophet that a court-martial had been held, and the prisoners were tried without being allowed to be present or to have any one to defend them, and were sentenced to be shot the next day. Gen

tate, and accordingly it was determined

amp. The next morning the Prophet and Patriarch, Sidney Rigdon, P. P. Pratt, Ly