_Wednesday, 27_.--Attended meeting at the Grove and listened to the electioneering candidates, and spoke at the close of the meeting. _Letter of Governor Carlin to Joseph Smith, Anent the Foregoing Resolution and Petition_. QUINCY, July 27, 1842. DEAR SIR:--Your communication of the 25th instant, together with the petitions of the citizens of the city of Nauvoo, both male and female, were delivered to me last evening by Brevet-Major-General Wilson Law; also a report of James Sloan, Esq., Secretary of Nauvoo Legion, of the proceedings of a Court Martial of Brevet-Major-General had upon charges preferred against Major-General John C. Bennett; upon which trial the court found the defendant guilty, and sentenced him to be cashiered; all of which have been considered. In reply to your expressed apprehensions of "the possibility of an attack upon the peaceable inhabitants of the city of Nauvoo and vicinity, through the intrigues and false representations of John C. Bennett and others," and your request that I would issue official orders to you to have the Nauvoo Legion in readiness to be called out at a moment's warning in defense of the peaceable citizens, &c., I must say that I cannot conceive of the least probability, or scarcely possibility, of an attack of violence upon the citizens of Nauvoo from any quarter whatever, and as utterly impossible that such attack is contemplated by any {83} sufficient number of persons to excite the least apprehension of danger or injury, and whilst I should consider it my imperative duty to promptly take measures to suppress and repel any invasion, by violence of the people's rights, I nevertheless think that it is not in my province to interpose my official authority gratuitously when no such exigency exists. From the late exposure, as made by General Bennett it is not strange that the apprehensions of the citizens of Nauvoo are excited, but so far as I can learn from the expression of public opinion, the excitement is confined to the Mormons themselves, and only extends to the community at large as a matter of curiosity and wonder. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, THOMAS CARLIN. To General Joseph Smith. Elder W. Woodruff started for St. Louis, to procure printing paper for the _Times and Seasons_. _Saturday, 30_.--I wrote to Thomas Carlin, Governor of the state of Illinois as follows: _Letter of the Prophet to Governor Carlin--Satisfied with the Governor's Attitude_. NAUVOO, July 30, 1842.