[Hosea Stout Diary] Tues March 14th 1848. Quite well again.around and at a Council at which was read a letter from O. Hyde & others on the other side of the river, written in great excitement least all should be immediately used up, for us here to deliver up Jack Redding & several others whom they only suspected, as thieves & for the police for Gods sake to come over and help them as they had helped to pay the police.
All this flare up was only about a few vague reports of some one stealing and a whiskey Barrel broke open & its contents poured out by some good persons about the Tabernacle and the grog seller was making a fuss about.
Prest Young & those present only wrote to Br Hyde that if he would take a good smell of the old whiskey barrel to still his nerves & a little mountain opium & then be calm he thought it would all pass over. After this council I was around with the Present [President] some during which time he was at Mr Strodes Store whe[n] the objections to Strodes trial was thrown in his face in the same contemptable manner that now daily & hourly discussed. Threats of the United States troops & all such like was hinted at. I confess it was as much as I could do to hold my peace or keep my hands off from them[.] The President kept very calm but his feeling were very warm & but little said by him then.
There was as much dissension now as ever I saw in Nauvoo or at any other period of the Church history.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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