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General Clark's Address to the Saints at Far West, Missouri

Eliza R. Snow reported the following statement by General John B. Clark:

"Gentlemen, You whose names are not attach'd to this list of names, you will now have the privilege of going to your fields to obtain corn for your families, wood &c. Those that are now taken, will go from this, to prison to be tried & receive the due demerit of their crimes. But you are now at liberty all but such as charges may be brought against. It now devolves upon you to fulfil [sic] the treaty that you have entered into, the leading items of which I will now lay before you. The first of these, you have already complied with, which is, that you deliver up your leading men, to be tried according to law. The second is, that you deliver up your arms: this, has been attended to: The third is, that you sign over your property to defray the expences [sic] of the war; this you have done. Another thing yet remains for you to comply with, that is, that you leave the State forth-with, and whatever your feelings concerning this, or whatever your innocence, is nothing to me. General Lucas, who is equal in authority with me, has made this, treaty with you—I am determined to see it executed. The order of the Governor to me, was, that you should be exterminated and not allow'd to continue in the State—and had your leaders not been given up—the treaty complied with; before this, you, and your families would have been destroy'd —your houses in ashes.

John B. Clark

There is a discretionary power vested in my hands, I shall try to exercise for a season. I do not say that you shall go now, but you must not think of staying here another season and putting in another crop, for the moment you do, the citizens will be upon you. I am determined to see the Governor's message fulfil'd. Do not think, that I shall act as I have done any more: but if I have to come again, because the treaty which you have made, shall be broken, you need not expect any mercy but extermination, for I am determin'd that the Governor's orders shall be executed. As for your leaders, do not once think— do not imagine for a moment—do not let it enter into your minds, that they will be delivered, or that you will see their faces again; for their fate is fix'd—their dye is cast—their doom is seal'd. I am sorry, Gentlemen, to see so great a number of apparently intelligent men, found in the situation that you are, and Oh! that I could invoke the spirit of the unknown God to rest upon and deliver you from that awful chain of superstition; and liberate you from those fetters of fanaticism with which you are bound. I would advise you to settle abroad, and never again organize with Bishops, Presidents &c, lest you excite the jealousies of the people and subject yourselves to the same calamities that have now come upon you.—You have always been the aggressors—You have brought upon yourselves these difficulties by being disaffected and not being subject to rule: and my advice is, that you become as other [page 549] citizens, lest by a reoccurrence of these events you bring upon yourselves irretrievable ruin…" [Cited in BYU Studies, "Eliza R. Snow: Letter From Missouri," 13 (Summer 1973): 544-552]. Original at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio].

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