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Moroni. battle there was a short period of peace, but soon internal dissensions, caused by the intrigues of royalists and apostates, led by one Amalickiah, convulsed the Nephite community. Moroni rose to greatness with the peril of the hour. By his patriotic appeal he roused the whole Nephite nation. He tore off a portion of his coat, and naming it the Title of Liberty, sent it far and wide through the cities of his countrymen, that they might see the appeal he had inscribed thereon. It read: "In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives and our children."

The call was not in vain: the hosts of the patriots rallied to his standard. Amalickiah, hearing the news of this great awakening, faltered in his purpose, his followers lost heart, and retreat was deemed the fittest show of wisdom, and discretion the better part of valor. By Moroni's vigilance their retreat was cut off, the rebels surrendered, Amalickiah fled for safety to the Lamanites, and the “Title of Liberty" continued to float uninterruptedly from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, as far as Nephi's children ruled or Nephite homes were found.

Amalickiah retired to the court of the king of the Lamanites, and with the cunning and ingenuity of a demon, worked himself on to that throne, while at the same time he was plotting an invasion of the Nephite country. Moroni, in the meanwhile was not idle; he reorganized the Nephite armies, compelled more stringent discipline, introduced new tactics, inaugurated a greatly superior system of fortification, built towers and citadels, and altogether placed the defensive powers of the Commonwealth on a new and stronger footing. The Lamanites, who appear to have developed no capacity for originating, but were apt in copying, also, in course of time, adopted defensive armor, and when they captured a weak Nephite city they frequently made it a