Letter to Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt, 13 May 1844
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Source Note
Council of Fifty, Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to and , , 13 May 1844; in Council of Fifty, “Record,” pp. [249]–[252]; handwriting of ; CHL.

Council chamber
May 13th. 1844
Messrs &
Sirs, s Letters dated at April 25 & 26 are received. The council conversed immediately and after hearing said letters expressed by speech and vote their decided dis-approbation and indignation at the course pursued by in his conversation with in proposing to erace that portion of the memorial relative to Mr Smith’s being constituted a “member of the Army”
The council were surprised at [p. [249]]
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