Mormon History, Sep 29, 1845

[Hosea Stout Diary] Monday Sept 29. This morning the weather presented a very lowery aspect and threatened a storm never the less the teams appeared on the ground and repaired to the ground for the purpose as afore stated under Col. Harmon for some time My Clerk & Myself were busily engaged in arranging the reports of the different Regts the time they had been engaged as a posse Commitatus & other expenses connected therewith to be laid before the County Commissioners Court whose sessions commenced today at Carthage as by Law we were entitled to pay for the services so rendered to the County in Maintaining the supremacy of the Law.As General Hardin as prohibited in his general orders 4 men being together armed deeming his troops quite sufficient to quell all further disturbance and maintain the supremacy of the Law in conformity to the above we discontinued our Camping for the present â€" I then release my clerk for the present to give him liberty to transact his private busi
ness (As the present aspect
of affairs to all Law & order citizens of course portended a season of peace as the future will show)I then went into council with the Twelve and other authorities of the Church at Br D. Spencers with G.L.M. Herring and his comerades, which council only consisted an introduction to the feeling and mind of his people towards us and some circumstances relative to our removal hence.We had an interesting interview with them for an hour or two I then went home to look somewhat to my temporal affairs for the first time since I had been called out to duty.When I got there I found Br. Sabin had commenced to finish laying up my brick as before agreed upon and all things doing as well as could be expected.Capt. McRae came and took dinner with me & we then went o the Marquee again which was now totally occupied by our "red friends" and then in company with G.L.M. Herring we rode to the printing office and bought him a book of mormonfrom thence we went to se
e C. Daniels again who was not any
better, then came back to the marquee again and then met the police at the Stand and gave the instructions which had been given by President Young to me and others on the 27th in relation to spiriteous liquor & to them which was gladly recieved and all with uplifted hands covenanted to obey the same.and then after returning to the Marque again went home to enjoy domestic happiness again for one night.

[Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]