AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF PARLEY P. PRATT

One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints

CHAPTER 22—EXTERMINATING ORDER—BETRAYAL AND IMPRISONMENT OF JOSEPH SMITH AND OTHERS—CAMP OF THE ENEMY—HOWLINGS OF THE DAMNED—THE ENEMY BOAST OF THE HIGHEST CRIMES—SECRET INQUISITORY TRIAL OF THE PRISONERS—SENTENCE OF DEATH!—HOW REVERSED—A JUDAS—SURRENDER OF FAR WEST—ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE PRISONERS—FAREWELL SCENES —CAPTIVES REMOVED TO JACKSON COUNTY—GENERAL CLARK DEMANDS THE PRISONERS—REFUSAL TO SURRENDER THEM—CROSS THE MISSOUR! RIVER —VISITORS—PREACHING IN CAMP BY PRESIDENT SMITH—ARRIVE AT INDEPENDENCE —PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF THE PRISONERS

CHAPTER 23—TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS—VISIT THE TEMPLE LOT—GAIN MY FREEDOM—TEMPTATION—VOLUNTARY RETURN TO BONDAGE—LEAVE INDEPENDENCE —CONDUCT OF THE GUARDS—FALL INTO THE HANDS OF COL. PRICE AND GUARDS—ARRIVE AT RICHMOND—CHAINS—INTERVIEW WITH GEN. CLARK—DIALOGUE—INCONCEIVABLE ABSURDITIES.

CHAPTER 24—MASSACRE AT HAUN’S MILL

CHAPTER 25—SPEECH OF MAJOR-GENERAL CLARK, DELIVERED AT FAR WEST WHILE ITS CITIZENS WERE HELD AS PRISONERS, NOVEMBER, 1838

CHAPTER 26—THE PRISONERS—SECOND INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL CLARK —INQUISITION—SICKNESS OF ELDER RIGDON—COLONEL PRICE AND GUARDS —THEIR CONDUCT—REBUKE BY JOSEPH SMITH—TRIAL—SIMILARITY BETWEEN KING HEROD AND GOVERNOR BOGGS—JUDGE AUSTIN A. KING IN OPEN COURT THREATENS A WHOLESALE EXTERMINATION OF THE “MORMONS”—OTHER PRISONERS OBTAINED BY STRATAGEM—ADVICE OF GENERAL DONIPHAN, ATTORNEY FOR THE PRISONERS—DECISION—DISPOSAL OF THE PRISONERS—FLIGHT OF THE CHURCH TO ILLINOIS—CONDUCT OF THE OUTLAWS—MY FAMILY VISITS ME IN PRISON

CHAPTER 27—LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON THE SUBJECT

CHAPTER 28—JOSEPH SMITH AND HIS FELLOW PRISONERS IN CLAY COUNTY—MOCK TRIAL IN THE COUNTY OF DAVIES—FINAL ESCAPE—THEIR ARRIVAL IN ILLINOIS