On Saturday, August 6, 1842, President Joseph Smith passed over the river to Montrose, in company with General James Adams, Colonel Brewer, Hyrum Smith and a number of others, and witnessed the installation of the officers of the Rising Sun Lodge of Masons, by General Adams, deputy grand master of Illinois. While General Adams was giving instructions to the master-elect, Joseph Smith had a conversation with a number of the brethren who were resting in the shade of the building. His topic was the persecutions of the Saints in Missouri, and the constant annoyance which had followed them since coming to Illinois and Iowa. In the course of his conversation the Prophet uttered a prophecy which he recorded in his journal as follows: "I prophesied that the Saints would continue to suffer much affliction and would be driven to the Rocky Mountains, many would apostatize, others would be put to death by our persecutors, or lose their lives in consequence of exposure or disease, and some of them would live to go and assist in making settlements and build cities and see the Saints become a mighty people in the midst of the Rocky Mountains." Arrest of President Smith The governor of Illinois honored the demand of the Missourians, and on the 8th day of August, 1842, President Joseph Smith and Orrin P. Rockwell were both taken into custody by the deputy sheriff of Adams County, on a warrant issued by the governor. The prisoners demanded the right of habeas corpus, and the court of Nauvoo issued a writ demanding that the bodies of the two accused men be brought before that court. The deputy sheriff and his aids refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the court, and returned to Governor Carlin for further instructions, leaving the Prophet and Rockwell in the hands of the marshal of Nauvoo. The marshal had no papers by which they could be held, so permitted them to go about their business. The Prophet's Comments on His Arrest Commenting on his arrest, the Prophet said: "I have yet to learn by what rule of right I was arrested to be transported to Missouri for a trial of the kind stated. 'An accessory to an assault with intent to kill,' does not come under the provision of the fugitive act, when the person charged has not been out of Illinois. An accessory before the fact to manslaughter is something of an anomaly. The isolated affidavit of ex-Governor Boggs is no more than any other man's, and the constitution says, that no person shall be liable to be transported out of the state for an offense committed within the same. The whole is another Missouri farce."