Threats of a Mob of Three Hundred at Independence--Purity Required of
Church Members--Excommunication of Dr. P. Hurlbert--His Threats Against
the Prophet--Pixley Joins the Mob--His Malicious Falsehoods--Meeting
of a Base Element--Wicked Determinations--Destruction of the Saints'
Printing Establishment--W. W. Phelps Driven from Home--Bishop
Partridge and Elder Allen Tarred and Feathered--"You Must Leave the
Country"--Another Meeting of the Enemy--The Saints Agree to Leave
Jackson County