Importuning at the Feet of the Judge--the Governor--the President. CHAPTER XVIII. Zion's Camp. CHAPTER XIX. Zelph. CHAPTER XX. Dissensions in the Camp. CHAPTER XXI. Views Concerning Zion--Mob vs. Storm. CHAPTER XXII. Negotiations. CHAPTER XXIII. The Threatened Judgment--If--! CHAPTER XXIV. Attempt at Arbitration. CHAPTER XXV. The Pros and Cons of Arbitration Proposition. CHAPTER XXVI. An Interim--Blighted Hopes. CHAPTER XXVII. Peaceful Exodus from Clay County. CHAPTER XXVIII. Far West. CHAPTER XXIX. The Fall of David Whitmer and Oliver Cowdery. CHAPTER XXX. The Apostasy at Kirtland. CHAPTER XXXI. Adam-ondi-Ahman. CHAPTER XXXII. The Fourth of July, 1838. CHAPTER XXXIII. Kirtland Camp. CHAPTER XXXIV. Gallatin. CHAPTER XXXV. Boggs in Action--Defense Construed into Offense. CHAPTER XXXVI. De Witt. CHAPTER XXXVII. Millport. CHAPTER XXXVIII. Crooked River. CHAPTER XXXIX. Exterminating Order of Governor Boggs. CHAPTER XL. Haun's Mill. CHAPTER XLI. The Betrayal of Far West. CHAPTER XLII. Sad Scenes at Far West. CHAPTER XLIII. A Prophet's Rebuke. CHAPTER XLIV. "A Strong Point for Treason" CHAPTER XLV. Exodus from Missouri. CHAPTER XLVI. Again the Passively Good--Petitions. CHAPTER XLVII. The Escape of the Prophet from Missouri. CHAPTER XLVIII. A Prophecy that did not Fail. CHAPTER XLIX. A State's Shame. APPENDICES. "Mormons" in Jackson County, etc. THE MISSOURI PERSECUTIONS CHAPTER I. THE FACTS IN WHICH THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS HAD ITS ORIGIN. The story of the persecutions endured by the Latter-day Saints in Missouri, one of the sovereign States of the United States of America, properly begins with the advent of a mission to the Lamanites,[A] at Independence, Missouri, in the winter of 1830. But in order that those not acquainted with the history of The Church may understand how there came to be a mission to the Lamanites in 1830, and how there came to be a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be persecuted, I think it proper to state briefly those facts in which The Church had its origin. [Footnote A: American Indians] I know the story has often been told--so often indeed that all novelty in relation to it has long since passed away. But in history there are certain foundation facts that are as essential to the right understanding of some particular phase of history as the employment of the first principles of the science of mathematics is to the solution of some particular problem in algebra; and the historical writer is as much bound to state those foundation facts as the mathematician is to use the first principles of his science in the solution of his problem.