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count of sickness, failure to dispose of their property, or other adverse fortune; whereat the men of IlHnois began to bluster and threaten annihilation. Warren, who had disbanded his troops on the 1st, received an order from the governor on the following day to mus- ter them into service again. This he did; for he would, if possible, see the treaty between the Mor- mons and the governor faithfully carried out, and while urging the saints to haste, he endeavored to stand between them and the mob which now threat- ened their lives and the destruction of their prop- erty. ^^

Major Warren appears to have performed his duty firmly and well, and to have done all that lay in his power to protect the Mormons. In a letter to the Quincy Whig, dated May 20th, he writes: "The Mor- mons are leaving the city with all possible despatch. During the week four hundred teams have crossed at three points, or about 1,350 souls. The demonstra- tions made by the Mormon people are unequivocal. They are leaving the state, and preparing to leave, with every means God and nature have placed in their hands." It was but the lower class of people that clamored for the immediate expulsion of the remnant of the saints — the ignorant, the bigoted, the brutal, the vicious, the lawless, and profligate, those who hated their religion and coveted their lands.

18 <Xhus while with one hand he pushed the saints from their possessions across the river to save their lives, with the other he kept at bay the savage fiends who thirsted for blood, and who would fain have washed their hands in the blood of innocence, and feasted their eyes on the smoking ruins of their martyred victims.' Id., 24-5. From Nauvoo, May 11, 1846, Warren writes: 'To the Mormons I would say, Go on with your preparations, and leave as fast as you can. Leave the fighting to be done by my detachment. If we are overpowered, then recross the river and defend yourselves and property. The neighboring counties, under the circumstances, cannot and will not lend their aid to an unprovoked and unnecessary attack upon the Mormons at this time; and without such aid the few desperadoes in the county can do but little mis- chief, and can be made amenable to the law for that little. The force under my command is numerically small ; but backed as I am by the moral force of the law, and possessing as I do the confidence of nine tenths of the respect- able portion of the old citizens, my force is able to meet successfully any mob which can be assembled in the county, and if any such force does assem- ble, they or I will leave the field in double-qu