inculcated the notion, and it is believed by every true Mormon, that Smith's prophecies are superior to the laws of the land. I have heard the prophet say that he would yet tread down his enemies and walk on their dead bodies; that, if he was not let alone, he would be a second Mohammed to this generation, and that he would make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean; that, like Mohammed, whose motto, in treating for peace, was 'the Alcoran or the sword,' so should it be eventually with us, 'Joseph Smith or the sword.' These last statements were made during the last summer. The number of armed men at Adam-on-Diahman was between three and four hundred."
These statements of Marsh were endorsed by Orson. Hyde, then a seceder, but now one of the twelve apostles, member of the Legislative Assembly of Utah, &c., in the following terms:
All the testimony taken on the examination was subsequently communicated to the Missouri Legislature in 1840, by Governor Boggs, among the documents accompanying his message, and published. In his message he thus speaks of the Mormons:
"These people had violated the laws of the land by
