Generals Doniphan and Graham said it was murder, and they would have nothing to do with it.  This checked Lucas in his evil designs and so they decided to take the prisoners to Jackson county and kill them there.  Before starting, they were allowed to go to their homes and see their families, but they were not permitted to speak to them.  Their wives and children clung to them, crying in their despair, and were only separated by the cruel swords of the guards.

Fifty-six of the leading brethren were now taken prisoners and sent to the town of Richmond.  Most of them were released shortly after.

On November 6th General Clark made his famous speech to the Saints in Far West, wherein he told them that he had come to carry out the governor’s orders to destroy them, but he would be lenient and give them a little time to get out of the state.  He advised the Saints to be like other people and not organize themselves with bishops, presidents, etc.  It was a very foolish, conceited speech.

About twenty-five miles north of Far West was a beautiful settlement of the Saints.  Joseph said it was the place where our father Adam had blessed his children, and where he will come again to visit his people.  So the place was called Adam-ondi-Ahman.  The people here had suffered with the rest of the Saints, and now in the cold month of November they were driven from their homes and took refuge for the winter in Far West.

During that hard winter and time of trial when Joseph and many of his brethren were in prison and many others had apostatized, one name comes to the front as that of a faithful man.  It is Brigham Young.  He was ever true to the Prophet, and Joseph could rely on him.  With him were such noble men as Heber C. Kimball, John Taylor, and many others.  Brigham was now president of the Twelve, and it was his duty to take the lead in looking after the affairs of the Church during the absence of the First Presidency.

In January, 1839, Brigham Young called a meeting to consider what should be done in aiding the poor Saints to remove from Missouri.  President Young presented a resolution that the brethren should never desert the poor Saints, but that they should help them to escape from their persecutors.  A great many brethren agreed to this, and that winter and spring the move eastward to Illinois continued.  They did not travel in large bodies, but in small companies as they got ready.  Not one family who wished to go was left behind.

The sufferings of that winter journey cannot be told you here.  Many died on the way through exposure and hardships.  The mobs would not let them alone even when they were leaving as fast as they could.  Mobs often rode into Far West, abused the people, stole horses, drove off cattle and took anything that pleased them.  The Saints traded their farms for horses and wagons in which to get away.  Sometimes fine farms were nearly given away.  It is told of one brother that he sold forty acres of good land for a blind mare and a clock.