CHAPTER XXIV.

Threats of a Mob of Three Hundred at Independence--Purity Required of Church Members--Excommunication of Dr. P. Hurlbert--His Threats Against the Prophet--Pixley Joins the Mob--His Malicious Falsehoods--Meeting of a Base Element--Wicked Determinations--Destruction of the Saints' Printing Establishment--W. W. Phelps Driven from Home--Bishop Partridge and Elder Allen Tarred and Feathered--"You Must Leave the Country"--Another Meeting of the Enemy--The Saints Agree to Leave Jackson County