Baptist priests and mob's failed attempt to drive Elders out of Alabama

Baptist priests in Alabama spent three days traveling the country trying to raise a mob to drive Mormon Elders out of the region. Approximately twenty men responded to the call. Upon the priests explaining their object, one man refused to participate in religious persecution, and another man called the ministers fools and expressed his intent to fight for the Mormons if fighting were to occur. Consequently, the attempt to drive out the Elders was abandoned.

Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 41, No. 12, 24 March 1879):

Elder John Morgan writes from Alabama, under date of Feb. 24th, that the Baptist priests have been traveling through the country for three days, trying to raise a mob to drive the Elders out, but they could only get about twenty men to respond to their call. When they explained their object, one man said he would not engage in religious persecution, and another called the ministers fools, and said if there was any fighting to be done he would fight for the Mormons. So the attempt to drive the Elders out was abandoned.