Resolved, That as citizens of the State of Illinois, we solicit the attention of the Governor and officers generally of the State to take some lawful means and measures to regain the citizens that have been kidnapped by the Missourians, and to prevent the said Missourians and government from committing further violence upon the citizens of Illinois. Resolved, as the sense of this meeting, That, according to the true meaning of the law, those citizens of any section of country who do not rise up as virtuous freemen (when any portion of inhabitants congregate or combine to injure, slander, or deprive another portion of their rights,) and magnify the law, to clear themselves from such unhallowed attempts to subvert order and law, that they by their silence make themselves accessories of the crime of such unlawful assemblage or outrageous individuals. Resolved, unanimously, That we solicit the Governor by all honorable means to grant us peace, for we will have it. ALPHEUS CUTLER, Chairman. WILLARD RICHARDS, Secretary. In the afternoon, Lucien Woodworth started with the papers to the Governor, and the petition from Goodwin and others, and Delmore Chapman's affidavit. [Sidenote: Provision for German Meetings.] {103} The German brethren met at the assembly room at six p.m., and choose Bishop Daniel Garn as their Presiding Elder, and organized to have preaching in their native language. Directed copies of my Appeal to the various authorities of Vermont and the United States. [Sidenote: Precautionary Steps against Missouri Invasion] _Friday, 8.--_At eleven a.m. I went to my office and gave instructions to my clerk for the drawing of a draft of a dam on the Mississippi river, an directed that the city council be called at four this afternoon to make preparations for any invasion from Missouri. Willard Richards and Philip B. Lewis made an affidavit, which I insert:-- _Richards' and Lewis' Affidavit_. STATE OF ILLINOIS, CITY OF NAUVOO. ss. On the 8th day of December, 1843, came Willard Richards and Philip B. Lewis before me, Joseph Smith, Mayor of said city, and after being duly sworn, depose and say that they have been informed that two men have been kidnapped recently by the Missourians, in connection with some of the lawless inhabitants of the county of Hancock, and that rumors are now afloat that it is the intention of said lawless persons, in connection with the aforesaid Missourians, to kidnap some of the citizens of this city; and further your affiants would state that they are of opinion, to prevent difficulties of such a vexatious nature, that something should be done to secure the peace of this city from being disturbed. And further your affiants say not. WILLARD RICHARDS, PHILIP B. LEWIS. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8th day of December, 1843. W. W. PHELPS, Clerk.