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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 68: June 28, 1906
The Prophet's prediction that there was a Judas in their midst soon proved too true, and there were more than one. William Law, Joseph's second counselor, William Marks, president of the Nauvoo Stake, with many other leading men proved themselves false to Joseph and the Church. They even planned with Joseph's enemies to have him killed. They were also proved guilty of other were soon cut off from the Church.
Joseph's times of peace were not many nor very long. Apostates were his worst enemies, and they were all the time annoying him by having him ar rested upon all kinds of charges. These men were very bitter, and howled around him like a pack of wolves, eager to devour him; but Joseph trusted in the Saints, and they in him, for those who were faithful to their duties knew by the Spirit of God that Joseph was not a fallen prophet as his enemies claimed.
In June, 1844, the enemies of the Saints began to publish a paper in Nau voo called the Expositor. Its purpose was to deprive the people of Nauvoo of their rights, so it boldly said. One number was printed, and that was so full of false statements and abuse against the city officials that the city council declared it a nuisance and had the press, type, etc., destroyed.
This raised great excitement among the enemies of the Church. Joseph and seventeen others were arrested, tried before a court in Nauvoo, and ac quited; but this did not satisfy the mobbers. On the advice of the United States judge for that district, Joseph and his brethren allowed themselves to be arrested again, and they had a trial before Justice Daniel H. Wells, then not a Mormon. They were again discharged as innocent of any crime.
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