Since your last session, the unpleasant difficulties between a portion of the citizens of our State and the Mormons have entirely subsided. … After that infatuated and deluded sect had left our State, they industriously propagated throughout the Union, the most exaggerated details of our difficulties and the foulest calumnies against our citizens. In some of our eastern cities, missionaries of their creed were employed, daily making converts to their cause by proclaiming the cruelties which they alleged they had endured at the hands of our authorities.
Extract from Governor Boggs’ message, 1840
Document containing the Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons; and the evidence given before the Honorable Austin A King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri. General Assembly of the State of Missouri, 1841.