CHAPTER XV.

DIFFICULTIES WITH THE HIGBEES AND FOSTERS, CONFERENCES APPOINTED BY THE TWELVE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES--INSTRUCTIONS TO REUBEN HEDLOCK, PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH MISSION--PREPARATIONS FOR ENLARGEMENT OF THE WORK--FRANCIS M. HIGBEE'S SUIT AGAINST PRESIDENT SMITH--THE PROPHET RELEASED.

Excommunication of the Laws Fosters, _et al_.

Violence of the Fosters and Higbees.

The Foster-Higbee Embroilment.

Letter: Brigham Young and Willard Richards to Reuben Hedlock.

Letter: Parley P. Pratt to Joseph Smith, _et al_.

The Prophet's Petition for Writ of _habeas corpus_.

Order of the Municipal Court.

The People of the State of Illinois to the Sheriff of Hancock County.

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