>From microfilm: The Southwest Union Press; 30 June 1866. The following letter we copy from the Patriot at the request of several parties. We are unacquainted with the circumstances or incidents connected with the matter in controversy, consequently we are not prepared to express an opinion: Pleasant View, June 18, 1866. Mr. S. S. Headlee. Sir: I am desired to say to you for the class and congregation worshiping in Pleasant View church that your services will not be acceptable as a preacher of the cross of Christ. Your are therefore requested not to attempt to preach to said church, on said first Sabbath of July, 1866. I am requested further, to signify to you the reasons why the class and congregation worshiping in said church object to you preaching to them. And first, when war, the desolator of our race, menaced the peace of the government of the United States, you took your position with the enemies of the government. And when the demagogues of the south, with all the confederate powers of hell, struck the first blow to destroy this, the best government in the world, you supported them by adhering to their part, and advocating their cause, thus joining yourself to that nefarious confederation, which was organized on the night of the 12th, November, 1833, in the city of Milledgeville, Georgia, by and between an ex-aspirent [sic] for Presidential honors, and about 500 citizens to destroy the government of the United States. At which time, God from heaven, proclaimed His disapprobation of said nefarious cabal; for as it rose from its setting at the hour of midnight, God sent His meteors t! hick and fast, till the bright sun arose to dispel them. You have heard of the shooting of the stars; I saw them. With your own hand you traduced the flag of the nation, and to-day, you adhere to the party that framed iniquity and murder into law. You violated the law of God in resisting the government, by giving her enemies aid and comfort; you violated your ordination over which required you to be subject to the government of the United States, and more, when the church was scattered like sheep having no shepherd, and her alters were polluted, you had no gospel for the church or people; but your sympathies, if not your hands, were with the enemies of civil liberty; and whereas you continue to resist the constitutional authority of the state of Missouri, which she, for just reasons, interposed to prevent any further attempts to destroy her civil liberty, it is confidently believed that your purposes are to create strife, rather than to spread the trophies of Christ's Kingdo! m; and as allegiance is the highest civic virtue known to law, and treason is the highest civic crime known to law, among the civilized nations of the world, we hold that you, by your course thus far, justify crime and condemn virtue. It is therefore deemed improper for you to teach or preach in our community. I am therefore requested to say to you, for, and in behalf of this community, and for the reasons above specified, that you are requested not to attempt to preach in our church or community.