Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 18: Organ for Young Latter-Day Saints; June 1, 1883

Through the intercession of Judge J. K. Kane, of Philadelphia, the father of Colonel Thomas L. Kane, (whose fair and truthful statement of the situation of the Saints when driven out from N auvoo, was concluded in the last number) permission was obtained, from the president and department of Indian affairs at Washington; for the Saints to remain during the Winter on the lands of the Pottawatomies. Colonel Kane, when detained among the Saints some time previously by sickness, received such kind treatment from them that he wished to repay it by using his influence in their favor, and especially to secure to them, the right of remaining where they had established their Winter quarters until they could proceed on their journey. Sickness had prevented him from doing so himself, but his father had acted for him, as was shown by the result. On recovering from his sickness, Colonel Kane wrote to Elder Willard Richards, that he also intended to secure a lease from the government of the Omaha lands on which some of the Saints were located, and said; Trust me, it is not fated that my forces shall depart before I have righted you at the seat of government, and have at least assured to you a beginning of justice besides an end of wrong.

At the time the Saints were forced to leave N auvoo, those who took part with them, or were friendly with them, and who were termed by the mob Jack Mormons, also had to leave. Immediately after their expulsion, this class of persons appealed to Governor Ford to use his influence to reinstate them in their possessions. The governor all at once grew valiant, summoned a posse of one hundred and forty men, and marched into and took possession of Nauvoo. Whether he did this from a desire to see justice meted out to at least a portion of the innocent citizens of Nauvoo, or with a view to display his authority in an ostentatious manner, and hoping to make it appear to the public that he was not, nor ever had been, remiss in attending to his duties, we will not say; but he certainly did not act with becoming dignity while in Nau voo, for he spent a great portion of his time carousing withthe leading members of the mob party there. But though he might have been in favor of and on friendly terms with them, the mob forces generally did not feel so well towards him, for the favor he had shown the Jack Mormons. The mob held a meeting in Carthage, at which' resolutions were passed to the effect that as soon as the governor's troops should leave Nauvoo the J a'ck Mormons should be again expelled and even less tenderly than they were before. These resolutions were published in their organs, the Warsaw Signal and the Quincy Whig. A few days subsequently the mob held a meeting in N auvoo and warned the Jack Mor mons that they must sell out their property to them at some agreed valuation and then leave the city, or they would again expel them. The Jack Mormons, however. Did not seem disposed to accept the terms, but preferred running the risk of being driven. Ten women, representing themselves as a committee of the anti-mormon women of Hancock waited upon Governor Ford, and presented him with a pack age which, when opened, proved to contain a petticoat, expressive of the contempt in which they held him. The action of the governor did not make matters any better for the sale of the property of the Saints in Nauvoo, for the dis posal of which A. W. Babbitt, J. L.' Heywood and J. S. Full mer remained in Nauvoo. Though they had still some hopes of being able to sell or lease the temple and some other property, there was poor encouragement for them to stay there longer when they saw how little influence for good the governor wielded, and the still rabid disposition of the mob.