Original sentence: The order may have been issued as a response to one particularly inflammatory speech had been given by Sidney Rigdon (and approved by Joseph Smith) on July 4th, 1838 that declared:  "And that mob that comes on us to disturb us, it shall be between us and them a war of extermination; for we will follow them until the last drop of their blood is spilled; or else they will have to exterminate us, for we will carry the seat of war to their own houses and their own families, and one party or the other shall be utterly destroyed"
Edited sentence: One particularly inflammatory speech had been given by Sidney Rigdon (and approved by Joseph Smith) on July 4th, 1838 that declared:  "And that mob that comes on us to disturb us, it shall be between us and them a war of extermination; for we will follow them until the last drop of their blood is spilled; or else they will have to exterminate us, for we will carry the seat of war to their own houses and their own families, and one party or the other shall be utterly destroyed"