with Gov. Boggs at their head, have been the
prominent actors in this business, incited too, it
appears, against the "Mormons" by political hatred,
and by the additional motives of plunder and revenge.
They have but too well put in execution their threats
of extermination and expulsion, and fully wreaked
their vengeance on a body of industrious and
enterprising men, who had never wronged nor wished to
wrong them, but on the contrary had ever comported
themselves as good and honest citizens, living under
the same laws, and having the same right with
themselves to the sacred immunities of life, liberty
and property.



CHAPTER III

Settling in and about the obscure village of Commerce, the
"Mormon" refugees soon demonstrated anew the marvelous
recuperative power with which they were endowed, and a city
seemed to spring from the earth. Nauvoo--the City Beautiful--was
the name given to this new abiding place. It was situated but a
few miles from Quincy, in a bend of the majestic river, giving
the town three water fronts. It seemed to nestle there as if the
Father of Waters was encircling it with his mighty arm. Soon a
glorious temple crowned the hill up which the city had run in its
rapid growth. Their settlements extended into Iowa, then a
territory. The governors of both Iowa and Ohio testified to the
worthiness of the Latter-day Saints as citizens, and pledged them