Evidence taken on the trial of Mr. Smith, before the Municipal Court of Nauvoo, on Saturday, July 1, 1843: respecting the late persecution of the Latter-day Saints, in the state of Missouri, North America
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Evidence taken on the trial of Mr. Smith, before the Municipal Court of Nauvoo, on Saturday, July 1, 1843: respecting the late persecution of the Latter-day Saints, in the state of Missouri, North America
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- 1843
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- Nauvoo: Printed by Taylor and Woodruff
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- English
38 p.: 25 cm
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Pages 19,20,21,22,23 the printing is to the edge of the page.
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Subject: Mormon Pretended Persecution
Subject: Mormon Pretended Persecution
More of the same style of early Mormon propaganda. Booklet includes the Boggs Extermination Order Against the Mormon Blasphemy:
MIssouri Executive Order 44, also known as the "Extermination Order," was issued on Oct. 27, 1838, by Gov. Lilburn Boggs. It states in part:
"The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace — their outrages are beyond all description.”
The reprehensible conduct of the Mormons included murder, rape, torture, arson, robbery, cattle rustling, horse theft, pilliaging of homes and businesses, blasphemy of the Christian gosples, profaign religious zealotry, perversion of sexual decency and morality.
It became clear that Missouri non-Mormons and Mormons could not live in the same area harmoniously. In 1836 a “separate but equal” proposal was devised to solve this problem, whereby the state legislature created a new county, “Caldwell,” in northwest Missouri as a sort of Mormon “Indian Reservation.” But the booming Mormon population, swelled by the immigration of thousands of eastern converts doomed this to failure, as Mormon settlers burst the borders of Caldwell County and spilled into neighboring counties. Violence broke out again at an election riot in 1838. Criminal Mormon mobs and Mormon paramilitary units roamed the countryside causing much harm to the innocent with their outragous actions. When the blood-thirsty Mormons attacked a duly authorized militia under the belief it was an anti-Mormon mob, Missouri’s governor, Lilburn Boggs, ordered the Saints expelled from the state, or “exterminated,” if necessary. The conflict’s viciousness escalated, however, even without official sanction, when, on October 30, 1838, an organized mob launched a surprise attack on the small Mormon community of Haun’s Mill, massacring eighteen suspected criminal ellements of the Mormon aggressors. Over the next year, around eight thousand Mormon members, many in posession of stolen farm animals, personel property, and hijacked land plots, left Missouri for Illinois.
The Missouri State Archives’ “Mormon War Papers” shed light on this frequently misunderstood episode of Missouri history. This collection includes documents such as Governor Bogg’s infamous “Extermination Order”, but also many lesser known, and less appreciated, documents that are well worthy of study, such as the report of the legislative joint committee appointed to investigate the “disturbances” between Mormon Criminals and “Spoilers” and non-Mormon civilian farmers and towns people. Included also are such items as legislative debates and the governors’ state of the state addresses in which the “Mormon problem” is discussed. The collection also includes the criminal hearing of Joseph Smith and other church leaders for treason and other crimes.
MIssouri Executive Order 44, also known as the "Extermination Order," was issued on Oct. 27, 1838, by Gov. Lilburn Boggs. It states in part:
"The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace — their outrages are beyond all description.”
The reprehensible conduct of the Mormons included murder, rape, torture, arson, robbery, cattle rustling, horse theft, pilliaging of homes and businesses, blasphemy of the Christian gosples, profaign religious zealotry, perversion of sexual decency and morality.
It became clear that Missouri non-Mormons and Mormons could not live in the same area harmoniously. In 1836 a “separate but equal” proposal was devised to solve this problem, whereby the state legislature created a new county, “Caldwell,” in northwest Missouri as a sort of Mormon “Indian Reservation.” But the booming Mormon population, swelled by the immigration of thousands of eastern converts doomed this to failure, as Mormon settlers burst the borders of Caldwell County and spilled into neighboring counties. Violence broke out again at an election riot in 1838. Criminal Mormon mobs and Mormon paramilitary units roamed the countryside causing much harm to the innocent with their outragous actions. When the blood-thirsty Mormons attacked a duly authorized militia under the belief it was an anti-Mormon mob, Missouri’s governor, Lilburn Boggs, ordered the Saints expelled from the state, or “exterminated,” if necessary. The conflict’s viciousness escalated, however, even without official sanction, when, on October 30, 1838, an organized mob launched a surprise attack on the small Mormon community of Haun’s Mill, massacring eighteen suspected criminal ellements of the Mormon aggressors. Over the next year, around eight thousand Mormon members, many in posession of stolen farm animals, personel property, and hijacked land plots, left Missouri for Illinois.
The Missouri State Archives’ “Mormon War Papers” shed light on this frequently misunderstood episode of Missouri history. This collection includes documents such as Governor Bogg’s infamous “Extermination Order”, but also many lesser known, and less appreciated, documents that are well worthy of study, such as the report of the legislative joint committee appointed to investigate the “disturbances” between Mormon Criminals and “Spoilers” and non-Mormon civilian farmers and towns people. Included also are such items as legislative debates and the governors’ state of the state addresses in which the “Mormon problem” is discussed. The collection also includes the criminal hearing of Joseph Smith and other church leaders for treason and other crimes.
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