CHAPTER XXVII.
STATE OF AFFAIRS IN NAUVOO, WILLARD RICHARDS—A POLITICAL TRICK, ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER—BURDEN OF THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY, DISCOURSE—ENLARGEMENT OF MORMONISM, "BOSTON BEE"—THE PROPHET ON POLITICS, DISCOURSE—MOVEMENTS OF THE APOSTLES.
Thursday, July 13, 1843.—I was in conversation with Emma most of the day, and approved of the revised laws of the Legion.
The Legion authorized the issuing of Legion scrip to the amount of $500.
Shadrach Roundy returned from Springfield, and reported that the Governor had gone to Rock River; and he therefore left the affidavits in the care of Judge Adams. Brother Roundy had started with an old decrepit animal, and rode him all the way there and back again. He also reported that General Moses Wilson, of Missouri, had started from Jacksonville for Washington City.
Elders Ezra T. Benson, Q. S. Sparks and Noah Rogers preached at Cabbotville, Mass. While Elder Rogers was preaching, some person threw stones through the windows, and one hit Elder Benson on the thigh. The mob threw stones at them which flew like hail, when they left the room, but did not injure the brethren.
Friday, 14.—Spent the day at home. I was visited by a number of gentlemen and ladies who had arrived from Quincy on a steamboat. They manifested kind feelings.
Elder Jonathan Dunham started on an excursion to the western country.