[ Full-text transcription of: Letter from L. B. Fleak, Iowa to Governor Reynolds, Jefferson City, Mo. ]
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Fleak
[ ] of Jo. Smith
Free, L.B. Fleak PM
at Keokuk
Important
His Excellency Gov. Reynolds
Mo
To be mailed at
1842
KeoKucK I.T. Augt 8th 1842
His Excellency Gov Reynolds
Dear Sir
I hear just this (moment, crossed out) hour rcd
intelligence from Nauvoo that the Mormon Prophet
Joe Smith has this day been arrested on your
requisitions, . He sent down for one of our attor=
neys & it was from him that I obtained the
above information. The amount of it will be this
Smith will be rescued by those devils which
surround him & their will be another war more
bloody than those villians say theirs was in Mo
Nothing can save Smith this time, nine tenths
of our Citizens will support the sheriff although
he belongs to another State, The news of his arrest
had not been here one hour before every Mormon
in Our Town had left for Nauvoo I shall be
with the Sheriff this evening and on my return
again I will write you & from this time until
he is safely conveyed with your State you may
expect a note from me every Mail
You could have done nothing else that would have
given the people of this Country & of Illinois
the satisfaction that this requisition has given
them. Very Respectfully
Your Obdt servt
L B. Fleak