1845-06-09-New York Herald-Mormon Petition

Mormon Petition

New York Herald, 9 June 1845, Issue 157, col F

Mormon Petition

Mormon Petition.--In the Connecticut Legislature on Saturday, says the Hartford Courant, a message was received from His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by a communication from Brigham Young others, "a committee of the Latter Day Saints," at Nauvoo--otherwise called Mormons, asking for an asylum in Connecticut, or for aid in obtaining one elsewhere. They claim to be "law-preserving citizens," and they say Illinois has treated them as bad as Missouri. The former "pounced upon their patriarch and their prophet, repealed their chartered rights, &c." They say that many citizens of Connecticut are among them, and request the Governor to convene a special session of the Legislature to grant them an asylum, and to aid in establishing a colony of "latter Day Saints in Oregon." The message was referred to the committee on Foreign Relations.