The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and TravelsPratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
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The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels
Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Apostles -- Biography; Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857
CHAPTER XXII.--Exterminating Order:--Betrayal and Imprisonment
of Joseph Smith and Others:--Camp of the Enemy:--The Howlings
of the Damned:--The Enemy Boast of the Highest Crimes:--Secret
Inquisitory Trial of the Prisoners:--Sentence of Death!--How
Reversed:--A Judas:--Surrender of Far West:--Attempt to Assassinate
the Prisoners:--Farewell Scenes:--Captives Removed to Jackson
County:--General Clark Demands the Prisoners:--Refusal to Surrender
them:--Cross the Missouri River:--Visitors:--Preaching in Camp by
President Smith:--Arrive at Independence:--Public Exhibition of the
Prisoners.
CHAPTER XXIII.--Treatment of the Prisoners:--Visit the Temple
Lot:--Gain my Freedom:--Temptation:--Voluntary Return to
Bondage:--Leave Independence:--Conduct of the Guards:--Fall
into the Hands of Col. Price and Guards:--Arrive at Richmond:--
Chains:--Interview with Gen. Clark:--Dialogue:--Inconceivable
Absurdities.
CHAPTER XXIV.--Massacre at Haun's Mill.
CHAPTER XXV.--Speech of Major--General Clark, Delivered at Far West
while its Citizens were held as Prisoners, November, 1838.
CHAPTER XXVI.--The Prisoners:--Second Interview with General
Clark:--Inquisition:--Sickness of Elder Rigdon:--Colonel Price and
Guards:--Their Conduct;--Rebuke by Joseph Smith:--Trial:--Similarity
between King Herod and Governor Boggs:--Judge Austin A. King in Open
Court Threatens a "Wholesale Extermination of the 'Mormons:'"--Other
Prisoners Obtained by Stratagem:--Advice of General Doniphan, Attorney
for the Prisoners:--Decision:--Disposal of the Prisoners:--Flight of
the Church to Illinois:--Conduct of the Outlaws:--My Family Visits me
in Prison.
CHAPTER XXVII.--Legislative Action on the Subject.
CHAPTER XXVIII.--Joseph Smith and his Fellow Prisoners in Clay
County:--Mock Trial in the County of Davies:--Final Escape:--Their
Arrival in Illinois.
CHAPTER XXIX.--Farewell Scenes:--Departure of the Last Remnant of the
Exiles:--Court:--Release of Two of the Prisoners:--Reflections in
Prison.
CHAPTER XXX.--Letter to Judge Austin A. King.
CHAPTER XXXI.--The Prison:--Fare:--Conduct of the Guards:--A
Strange Couple:--My Wife Visits the Prison:--Fasting and
Prayer:--An Important Question:--Vision:--A Ministering
Spirit:--The Question Answered:--Visit from Judge King:--Change of
Venue:--Handcuffs:--Departure from the Prison:--Journey:--Arrival in
Columbia, Boone County:--Enter Another Prison:--Treatment:--Arrival of
Friends:--News from my Family:--Impressions of the Spirit:--Plan and
Preparations for Escape:--Fourth of July Celebration:--Flag:--Public
Dinner:--Now's the Day:--Our Friends take Leave:--Rendezvous.
CHAPTER XXXII.--Description of the Prison:--Ladies in the
Prison:--Evening of a Public Day:--Song:--Obstinate Coffee Pot:--Order
of Attack:--Escape:--Race:--Great Excitement:--Our Friends in the
Thicket:--Prisoners Gain the Thicket:--Flight:--Encounter:--Climb
a Tree:--Faint:--Prayers:--Night Favors us at Last:--Loss of my
Horse:--Journey on Foot:--Reflections.
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