Although during this period Nauvoo was fast becoming the most notorious city in Illinois, outwardly it was a model of propriety. There was not a saloon in the city, and if a man wanted to drink he had to buy his whiskey from a shop specially licensed by the mayor and take it home with him. “If you want to retire from the noise of the Bacchanalian’s song,” said theTimes and Seasons, “the midnight broils, and the scenes of drunkenness which disgrace so many of our cities and villages, come to Nauvoo — No such proceedings are allowed.”
