Identifier: historyoftazewel00chas (find matches)
Title: History of Tazewell county, Illinois ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Chas. C. Chapman & Co., pub
Subjects: Tazewell County (Ill.) -- History Tazewell County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : C.C. Chapman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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^,and the posse were to march in unmolested, and leave a sufiicientforce to guarantee the performance of their stipulations. Accord-ingly, the constables posse marched in with Brockman at theirhead. It consisted of about 800 armed men and 600 or TOOimarmed, who had assembled from all the country around, throughmotives of curiosity, to see the once proud city of Nauvoo hum-bled and delivered up to its enemies. They proceeded into the
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HISTOKY OF ILLINOIS. 117 citj slowly and carefully, examinin,^ the way for fear of the explo-sion of a mine, many of which had been made by the Mormons,by burying kegs of powder in the ground, with a man stationed ata distance to pull a string communicating with the trigger of apercussion lock affixed to the keg. This kind of a contrivance wascalled by the Mormons hells half-acre. When the possearrived in the city, the leaders of it erected themselves into a tri-bunal to decide who should be forced away and who remain.Parties were dispatched to hunt for fire-arms, and for Mormons, andto bring them to judgment. When brought, they received theirdoom from the mouth of Brockman, who sat a grim and unawedtyrant for the time. As a general rule, the Mormons were orderedto leave within an hour or two; and by rare grace some of themwere allowed until next day, and in a few cases longer time wasgranted. MALTRExVTMENT OF NEW CITIZENS. Nothing was said in the treaty in regard to the new citizens,

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