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Joseph Smith’s Reputation in Nauvoo

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , on 03/21/2015| 3 Comments »

Mormon Decisions 10THE DAILY TRIBUNE: SALT LAKE CITY, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1887;

“THE MORMONS IN NAUVOO – Three Letters from William Law on Mormonism.

I saw nothing wrong until after the city charter was obtained. A change was soon apparent; the laws of the country were set at defiance and although outwardly everything was smooth, the under current was most vile and obnoxious. Time revealed to me and to many others much that we had not even suspected. We were kept in the dark as long as possible and held up before the public as examples of the Mormon people. Well, you know what followed.

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Mormon Dilemma 976 Nauvoo Expositor

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , , on 06/16/2014| Leave a Comment »

Mormon Decisions 10History of the Church 6:448; “To the Marshal of said City, greeting.

You are here commanded to destroy the printing press from whence issues the Nauvoo Expositor, and pi the type of said printing establishment in the street, and burn all the Expositors and libelous handbills found in said establishment; and if resistance be offered to your execution of this order by the owners or others, demolish the house; and if anyone threatens you or the Mayor or the officers of the city, arrest those who threaten you, and fail not to execute this order without delay, and make due return hereon.

By order of the City Council,

Joseph Smith, Mayor.”

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Mormon Dilemma 238

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , , on 04/29/2012| Leave a Comment »

Nauvoo Expositor

Encyclopedia of Mormonism, pg. 48; “By 1844 Joseph Smith also faced serious dissension within the Church. Several of his closest associates disagreed with him over the plural marriage revelation and other doctrines…They became allied with local anti-Mormon elements and published one issue of a newspaper, the Nauvoo Expositor. In it they charged that Joseph Smith was a fallen prophet, guilty of whoredoms, and dishonest in financial matters…The Nauvoo City Council and Mayor Joseph Smith declared the newspaper an illegal “nuisance” and directed the town marshal to destroy the press. This destruction inflamed the hostile anti-Mormons around Nauvoo. On June 12, 1844, Thomas Sharp’s newspaper, the Warsaw Signal, called for the extermination of the Latter-day Saints: “War and extermination is inevitable!”

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Mormon Dilemma 25

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 07/13/2011| 9 Comments »

Nauvoo Expositor

Joseph Smith Chronology, pg. 228; “June 11, 1844 Joseph issues a proclamation stating that he has destroyed the Nauvoo Expositor, which he considered a nuisance (and therefore had the legal right to destroy, just as he would any nuisance).”

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