. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . of sevenil t»thers, und loss to the anti-Mormons ofthree killen committee of one )iundri>4l, from (^uincy, the^Itirmons and their allies were ifiduee*! to submit to such terms asthe ]>osse choice to dictate, which were that the Mormons shouldimmediately give up tin ir arms to the Qiiiney committee, and re-
. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . of sevenil t»thers, und loss to the anti-Mormons ofthree killen committee of one )iundri>4l, from (^uincy, the^Itirmons and their allies were ifiduee*! to submit to such terms asthe ]>osse choice to dictate, which were that the Mormons shouldimmediately give up tin ir arms to the Qiiiney committee, and re-move from the State. The trustees of the church and live of theirclerks were permitted to remain for the sale of Mormon ]>r<»perty,and the ]»o^^e were to march in unm<dested, and leave a sullicientforce to guarantee the ]»erf<»rmanco of their stipulations. Accord-ingly, the constables marched in with Urockman at theirhead. It c»nsisted of about 800 arnjed men and COO or 70<»unarmetl, who had assembled from all the country around, throughmotives of curiosity, to see the once proud city of Nauvoo lium-blfcd an to its enemies. They proceeded into the. IlISTOKV OF ILLINOIS. 117 city slowly and carefully, exaiiiiiiinof the way for fear of the explo-sion of a mine, many of which had been made by the Mormons,by burying kegs of powder in the ground, jrith a man stationed ata distance to pull a string communicating with the trigger of apercussion lock affixed to the keg. This kind of a contrivance wascalled by the Mormons hells half-acre. AVhen the possearrived in the citv, the leaders of it erected themselves into a tri-bunal to decide who should be forced away and who were dispatched to hunt for fire-arms, and for Mormons, andto l)ring them to judgment. When brought, they received tlieirdoom from the mouth of Brockman, who sat a grim and unawedtyrant for the time. As a general rule, the Mormons were orderedto leave within an hour or two; and
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