Brother Redfield replied, "We want the legislature to pass a law to that effect, showing that the stipulations {235} and deeds of trust are not valid and are unconstitutional; and unless you do pass such a law, we shall not consider ourselves safe in the state. You say there has been a stain upon the character of the state, and now is the time to pass some law to that effect; and unless you do, farewell to the virtue of the state; farewell to her honor and good name; farewell to her Christian virtue, until she shall be peopled by a different race of men; farewell to every name that binds man to man; farewell to a fine soil and a glorious home; they are gone, they are rent from us by a lawless banditti." _Tuesday, December 18_.--Mr. Turner, from the joint committee on the "Mormon" investigation, submitted a report, preamble and resolutions, as follows: _The Turner Committee Report to the Missouri Legislature_, [1] In Senate, Tuesday, December 18, 1838. Mr. Turner, from the joint committee on the Mormon investigation, submitted the following report, preamble and resolutions: The joint committee to whom was referred so much of the governor's message as relates to the recent difficulties between the people called Mormons, and a part of the people of this state, with instructions to inquire into the causes of said disturbances, and the conduct of the military operations in suppressing them, have taken the same under consideration, and would respectfully submit the following report and resolutions: They have thought it unwise and injudicious under all the existing circumstances of this case, to predicate a report upon the papers, documents, etc., purporting to be copies of the evidence taken before an examining court, held in Richmond, in Ray county, for the purpose of inquiring into the charges alleged against the people called Mormons, growing out of the late difficulties between that people and other citizens of this state. They consider the evidence adduced in the examination there held, in a great degree, _exparte_, and not of the character which should be desired for the basis of a fair and candid investigation. Moreover, the papers, documents, etc., have not been certified in such manner as to satisfy the committee of their authenticity.