Mormon History, Nov 18, 1845

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] {18th } I recieved three letters from Nauvoo this day one from President Brigham Young one to Br Clark one from Br Player. Br Young give me the painful Intelligence that the State of Illinois will not Protect them & the ownly terms of Peace they can have at all is to remove from the State. And the Presidency of the Church with the Church itself has been under the Necessity of Agreeing to leave the State next spring. Thus the State of Illinois And the whole United States have filled up there Cup of Iniquity And well may the Saints go out of her midst As did Lot out of Sodom for her Judgment and destruction is equally sure.
The Saints having built the Temple of the Lord & the City of Joseph Are now about to be drove out of it By the American Nation. This is a Strange Age we live in. The Bible & Book of Mormon Doctrins & Covenants are fast fulfilling upon the heads of this generation. Thus has American liberty with her proud eagle found a sepu
lchre there to remain untill resurrected by some power who will be proroped by virtue to Administer those laws in equity & Justice that the present Administrators have not moral Courage enough to maintain against the power of Mobocracy.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]