Excerpt from An Earnest Appeal for Justice

This your humble memorialist and earnest applicant of the present period 'of time appeals to your honor, to your highest sense of humanity, to your deepest sense of liberty and fidel ity, to your personal and national ties of honesty and broth erho'od, to your governmental reliabilities, to your official duties, and to your highest national executive administration; asking you for our constitutional rights.' We ask in the name of virtue and justice that we may be restored to the state and national liberties and rights that constitutionally belong to us - that we have heretofore been so brutally robbed of in the State of Missouri at the time of the difficulties that occurred with a portion of the citizens of said state, which happened between the date of the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty and one thousand, eight hundred and forty, which circumstance of said occurrence terminated in an immense amount of human sufl'ering on the part of the abused, and was followed in succession with great losses of 'both personal and church property; and added on with the dogmatical act of exterminating one portion of the then citizens of said state. And that, too, in full consequence of default at the time on the part of the executive authority of said state, and also that of the national authority, both failing in duty to administer the common and national laws constitutionally in the premises, to harmonize with the con stitutional code of laws that the forefathers of this our lovely country did compose (after a long and hard struggle with their'enemies in war and bloodshed) in their humility by mutual agreement, aided by state and national abilities, os tablished for the amelioration of their then own icondition, and also for the guidance of their children and children's children after them upon the thoroughfare highway of life, liberty and prosperity in both financial and religious pursuits until the time should roll round when the'god of Heaven, in fulfillment of the prophets, would set up his kingdom on earth for a further advancement of his children-in the ways of' uprig'htness upon this-land, that they1 may go forth in that kingdom and (as the Prophet Malachi has said) grow up as calves of the stall. Yea, and.that.they may be aslambs of the sheep-cote, growing. Up into everlasting life, enjoying a full degree of. Life, harmony, peace, tranquility and lasting liberty.

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