Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-12-23

taken before justice of the peac,
and entered into recognizance tc
appear at court. They were a
once discharged; but the Smith.
were Immediately rearrested on 9
charge of treason-levying arms
against the government of the
State-and recommitted to the
county Jail. -
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There was a large body of mil.
itia at Carthage, and a small regi.
ment at Warsaw. The Governor,
not knowing how to employ their
idle hands, ordered them to rem
devious at Golden's Point. He
sent Singleton to Nauvoo to take
command of the legion raised by
Smith. Singleton, on his arrival,
found two thousand men armed
and equipped. Though little
dismayed by the apparition, he in
spected them and reported to the
Governor.
On the morning of the 9th of
June, the regiment of Colonel
Levi Williams started from War
saw, in obedience to the call of
the Governor to rendezvous at
Golden's Point, settlement in
the vicinity of Nauvoo. They
went out in high glee, fully ex-
pecting to march to the city of
the Saints, and not doubling that
before they left it some occasion
would arise which would make it
necessary to remove this standing
scandal from the face OF the earth.
There were none but words of law
and order on their lips; but every
man clearly understood that Nau-
VOC was to be destroyed before
they returned. A public meeting
in Warsaw had unanimously ''Re-
solued, that we will forthwith pro-
ceed to Nauvoo and exterminate
the city and it's people"
Order reigned in Warsaw-for
the men were all gone. The whole
male adult population, with triAing
exceptions, were in Williams regi-
ment. Among the captains were
William N. Grover, afterwards
distinguished lawyer Of St. Louis,
and United States Attorney for
Missouri,-an eminently respecta-
bleand conservative man Thomas
G.. Sharp, editor of the Signal who
also on this day sowed the last of
his wild oats, and was afterwards
principal of the public school,
and greatly esteemed as county
judge; Jacob c. Davis, then
State Senator, afterwards member
of Congress from that district.
They arrived near noon at
some deserted shanties, about sew
en- miles from Warsaw, that had
been built and abandoned in that
furry and collapse of internal i'm
provements that passed over the
State in 1888. There they were
met by Mr.. David Matthews, a
we'll known citizen of Warsaw,
who had ridden rapidly from Car
thage with an order from the Gov
ernor, disbandasg the Regiment
The Governor, fearing he could
not control the inhammable mate
rial he had gathered together, had
determined to scatter it again.
Colonel Williams read the Gov
ernor's order. Some OF the anti
Mormon warriors, blessed with
robust Western appetites, looked
at the sun, and concluded they
could get home by dinner time,
and under the, influence OF this In
spring idea started off at quick
step, Captain Grover soon found
himself without accompany. Cap
tain Aldrich essayed speech
calling for volunteers for Carthage.
"He did not make a fair start,
says the chronicle, Sand. Sharp
came up and took it off his hands. "
Sharp, being a spirited and i'm
pressive talker, soon had a respec-
table squad about him. Captain
Davis, on the contrary, was sorely
perplexed. Itwas heavy wealth.
er for him. He was a professions