Vol. II. - No. 93. Pittsburgh, January 3, 1844. Two Cents.
KIDNAPPING MORMONS. -- Information from Nauvoo gives us to understand that two Mormons have been kisnapped from that place can carried to Missouri. The Governor of Illinois has been called upon to demand the men of the Governor of Missouri, but he refused to do so. This is a gross outrage upon those people, the mass of whom are good citizens and obey the laws, whatever may be said of their leaders. We have seen no reasons for the Governor's refusal to make the demand, but presume it will be forthcoming. |
Vol. II. - No. 115. Pittsburgh, January 29, 1844. Two Cents.
An ordinance has been passed at Nauvoo, Illinois, declaring that any person or persons from Missouri who may come to that city to arrest Joe Smith or any one of his confederates, for crimes alleged to have been committed in the last named State, shall on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for life, and can only be pardoned by the Governor, of Illinois, with the consent of the Mayor of the city!! |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, February, 1844. No. 2.
==> Having resided in Pittsburgh from the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, until the eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, we had a sufficient opportunity to make ourself acquainted with all the particulars concerning one Mr. Solomon Spaulding, of whom it is said, that he wrote a romance, from which it is asserted, originated the Book of Mormon. We have duly examined the whole matter, and exposed the story to the righteous contempt of a candid public, in a pamphlet, entitled "The Spaulding Story." |
Vol. II. - No. 118. Pittsburgh, February 1, 1844. Two Cents.
==> The Mormons, through Jo Smith, have addressed a letter to J. C. Calhoun, and because he declines promising to do the world and all for them, have repudiated the idea of voting for him, if he be nominated to the Presidency. |
Vol. II. - No. 123. Pittsburgh, Feb. 7, 1844. Two Cents.
The Mormons and those residing in the neighborhood of Nauvoo, are assuming a belligerent position towards each other. The Mormon Magistrates were resisted a few days ago by Mr. Milton Cook, and the posse kept at bay for two days; at the expiration of which time, the posse retired. |
TIOGA [ ] EAGLE. Vol. VI. Wellsborough, Pa., Wednesday, February 21, 1844. No. ? Correspondence of the "Tioga Eagle."
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Vol. II. - No. 139. Pittsburgh, Feb. 26, 1844. Two Cents.
THE MORMONS. -- The Quincy Herald of the 9th inst., contains the following item of a bellicose character. From the recent difficulties with the Mormons, we should not be surprised at a serious outbreak in Northern Illinois before many months have passed: |
Vol. II. - No. 147. Pittsburgh, March 6, 1844. Two Cents. PROBABLE MORMON WAR. A large meeting was recently held at Carthage, Ill., growing out of numerous difficulties of late occurence, between the citizens of Carthage and their neighbors of Nauvoo, at which resolutions were passed strongly denunciatory of the Mormons and their notorious leader, Smith. The Warsaw Message, remarking upon this state of things, holds the following language: |
Vol. II. - No. 148. Pittsburgh, March 7, 1844. Two Cents.
A NEW CANDIDATE. -- The Nauvoo Neighbor announces its determination to support Gen. Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, for the Presidency at the election. It is strongly opposed to either Van Buren or Clay. |
Vol. II. - No. 160. Pittsburgh, March 24, 1844. Two Cents.
MORMONS IN MISSISSIPPI. -- The Mobile Register learns by a letter from Sumter county, Ala., that the Mormons are making a somewhat formidable demonstration in an adjoining county in Mississippi. They commenced operations at Pleasant Springs, late in the fall, and now number about seventy-five proselytes -- some twenty being seceders from the Methodist connexion, and about twenty-six from the Baptist -- the balance from non-professors. They have revently commenced propogating their faith at Brooklyn, only a few miles from the Alabama State line, where they will probably meet with a like success. |
Vol. II. - No. 170. Pittsburgh, April 2, 1844. Two Cents. GREAT MORMON EXCITEMENT. We learn from the Boston Times that there was a tremendous row at the Marlboro' Chapel, in that city, on Monday night. It seems that a Mr. John Dennett [sic - Bennett?], formerly a Mormon, but expelled for some indescretions with a "sister," was the orator of the evening. He had hired the chapel on speculation, and he charged 12 1/2 cents a head admission.Mr. Dennett has a very peculiar style of eloquence, and stands six [sic] feet in his stockings. He commenced by giving with remarkable candor and plainness the history of his amour with a "gentle priestess" of Nauvoo; the Mormons, however, he declared, were themselves guilty of the very sin for which they had excommunicated him. While he was relating his experiences with his Yankee brogue, and in unsophisticated innocence, and bearing down upon the Mormons with irrepressable energy, a snapping of Chinese crackers was heard, and soon a rotten egg came within three inches of his nose, and exploded on the wall behind him. Showers of aromatic snuff and any quanty of wheat flour also lighted upon his devoted cranium, and clothed him in garments of radient beauty. He then attempted to sing an onscene song, when a tremendous yell arose and a battery of all sorts of filth was opened upon his devoted person. The yolk of eggs became matted into his hair and ran down upon his face, mingled with flour and snuff. He was an interesting object indeed to look at; and being unable to stand it further, rushed from the platform bare-headed, over the seats and benches, and for the door, followed by the motely assemblage. -- Philadelphia Times. |
Vol. II. - No. 174. Pittsburgh, April 6, 1844. Two Cents. THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS. The Preston (Eng.) Chronicle notices the return to their home of two young Englishmen, who it seems left their friends anout three years since, and emigrated to Nauvoo, the city of the Mormonites. They have given curious accounts of their sojourn with Joe Smith, and assert that the followers are much dissatisfied with their prospects, both terrestrial and heavenly: |
Spirit of ( ) the Age. Vol. II. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thursday, May 2, 1844. No. 12. Mormonism Exposed! Expulsion of a Mormon Elder by the Rev. A. M. Bryan, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of the city of Pittsburgh, in which a principle of intolerance foreign to every principle of Virtue, Religion and Humanity, was practised and carried out. I call upon all men to witness this act, which betrays a character unworthy of the Savage of the Forest, much more a man professing the Religion of Jesus Christ, and one too (from the position he occupies) that should have compassion on the ignorant, and, as Paul says, should condescend to men of low estate, and not, (because of a difference of sentiment,) show not only a want of gentility, but a spirit which reigns in the hearts of Bigots. |
Vol. II. - No. 197. Pittsburgh, May 3, 1844. Two Cents.
MORE MORMONS. -- The St. Louis New Era states that one hundred Mormons arrived at that city on the Steamer Charlotte, on their way to Nauvoo. |
Vol. II. - No. 199. Pittsburgh, May 6, 1844. Two Cents.
MORMONS. -- On Tuesday of last week one hundred and fifty Mormons arrived at St. Louis, on the Congress, from England, making three hundred who have passed that city within ten days on their way to Nauvoo, the Mormon paradise. |
Vol. II. - No. 211. Pittsburgh, May 20, 1844. Two Cents.
From the St. Louis Republican
Dissensions among the Mormons at Nauvoo. -- We have good reasons for placing reliance in the details of a letter, the contents of which are hereafter stated, |
Vol. ? Pittsburgh, Monday, June 4, 1844. No. ? NAUVOO. The Ohio Observer says, that "a riot lately took place at Nauvoo, in the course of which a man named Foster, undertook to shoot Joe Smith. Joe is said to have been slightly wounded. A Mormon Temple is going forward, some fifty men being at work upon it. The Mormons have started a Theatre." Holy city! New Jerusalem!! Indeed! rather is is the new and corrupt Sodom and Gomorrah... Gain, or whatever gratifies the fleshly appetites of Joe Smith, the great General, tavern keeper, and libertine of Nauvoo, is his principle, and that of his vile clan, with the exception of a few deluded persons... |
Vol. XX. Beaver, Pa., Wednesday, June 6, 1844. No. 26.
More trouble at Nauvoo. -- The Alton Telegraph of Saturday week, states that a Deputy Marshall of the District of Illinois, recently proceeded to Nauvoo, with a process issued by the Judge of the District Court of the United States, for the arrest of Jeremiah Smith, upon a criminal charge of embezzling money. The deputy marshal succeeded in arresting Smith; when Joe caused his follower to be taken out of the possession of the United State's Officer, and brought before the municipal court of Nauvoo, for an examination under the writ of habeas corpus, issued by that immaculate body. The depury in a letter, states that the examination was to come off on the next day, and the result was involved in doubt. He farther avowed a fixed determination on his part, fearlessly and faithfully to execute the process of the United States Court, regardless of the course of this mock tribunal of justice, whose chief business is the release of all rogues who take shelter at Nauvoo, and are subsequently arrested by any process of law, whether issued from the State or Federal courts. -- Should Joe Smith refuse to surrender the accused into the hands of the deputy marshal, Col. Prentiss will repair in person to the scene of the action, with such a force as will insure obedience to the Constituted authorities of the Government. |
Vol. II. - No. 227. Pittsburgh, June 7, 1844. Two Cents.
==> A new Mormon paper has been started in New York called the "Prophet." It advocates the doctrine of Mormonism, and the election of Joseph Smith, a western man with American principles, to the Presidency. |
Vol. II. - No. 228. Pittsburgh, June 8, 1844. Two Cents.
INCREASE OF MORMONISM. -- The St. Louis Reporter estimates the increase of Mormonism during the past year at six or eight hundred from foreign countries, and three or four hundred from the United States, (principally from Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts.) Fifty or sixty missionaries arrived at St. Louis on the 29th ult., on their way to preach Mormonism in different parts of the country. |
Vol. 1 No. 1. Pittsburgh, June 15, 1844. Price 2 cts. ... Mr. Bird copies from the 'Ohio Observer.' which says 'a riot took place at Nauvoo, in the course of which a man named Foster, undertook to kill Joe Smith. Joe is said to have been slightly wounded.' Mr. Bird, would you desire to intimate because Foster endeavored to kill Joe Smith that that was evidence Smith ought to die, or that it was proof that he is a bad man... |
Vol. II. - No. 234. Pittsburgh, June 15, 1844. Two Cents.
AN ATTACK ON NAUVOO. -- The St. Louis Gazette of the 4th, states that an organized party of five or six hundred men has started for Nauvoo, to release from the custody of the Mormons, Dr. Hitchcock, U. S. Marshal of Iowa. Dr. H. went to Nauvoo to arrest a criminal, and was seized and confined by the Prophet's followers. |
Vol. II. - No. 235. Pittsburgh, June 17, 1844. Two Cents.
MORMONITE CONVENTION The Presidency. -- There was a meeting at Military Hall, New York, on Tuesday evening, called for the purpose of advancing the claims of Joe Smith of Nauvoo, the leader of the Mormonites, or "Latter Day Saints," to the Presidency of the United States. The Republic says, -- |
Vol. II. - No. 240. Pittsburgh, June 22, 1844. Two Cents.
==> A paper was started at Nauvoo, a short time since, called the Expositor. We do not know the precise character of the sheet, but its course was offensive to the Prophet, and in order to put it down, he had an ordinance passed under which it was declared to be a nuisance, and the City Marshal of Nauvoo, at the head of a posse, repaired to the office, took out the materials, and burnt them on the street! |
Vol. 1 No. 2. Pittsburgh, June 29, 1844. Price 2 cts. For the People's Organ. Elder Sidney Rigdon Arrived. This morning, June the 27th, on board the steamer "REVENUE," Elder Rigdon in company with Elder Ebenezer Robinson; designs to make a permanent residence in this city (Pittsburgh) for this season at least. Elder Rigdon will visit his friends the coming week in the country; and on the first Sabbath of July next, the 7th day of the month, his friends and old acquaintance, together with the public at large, can avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing Mr. Rigdon for themselves. The "Post" and other papers have been active in giving currency to an error relative to the origin of the Book of Mormon as being but the product of one "SOLOMON SPAULDING," of this city. Mr. Rigdon is the man who, it is said, obtained the manuscript of S. Spaulding, and from which it is said he made the "Book of Mormon." We hope that Rev. S. Williams will now come out and sustain, if possible, what he published in a pamphlet in the spring of 1842, concerning this matter; or, by remaining silent on the subject, prove to the honest part of this city that he only took advantage of the absence of Mr. Rigdon to wickedly slander his (Rigdon's) character, in order to save from utter ruin a rickety bantling of a system of religion that has nothing better than falsehood and misrepresentation to sustain it. Rally your forces, Rev. Williams, for you are certainly in danger of being showed up in dark colors relative to what you set forth in your pamphlet.
For the People's Organ.
"The Time has Come." Yes, 'the time has come' that the free thinking people of these United States are not to be so easily 'humbugged' into panic about the Mormons as they have been, concerning some momentary flare up about 'Joe Smith' and the Saints at Nauvoo, got up by some political demon-gogues. |
Vol. XI. - No. 24. Wednesday, July 3, 1844. Whole No. 544.
THE MORMONS --
All our intelligence from Illinois indicates the probability and almost the certainty of aspeedy and bloody collision between the Mormons and the surrounding citizens of Illinois. The St. Louis Republican of last Monday says: -- Our intelligence from the seat of the disturbances at Nauvoo, is down to Friday night last. We learn by the Die Vernon, that great excitement existed in all the counties, on both sides of the river, and that a resort to arms was inevitable. The Die Vernon, on her last trip took about sixty stand of arms from Quincy to Warsaw, and efforts were making to get arms from other quarters. Some 300 of the Mormons, it is understood, had left Nauvoo, but Joe Smith had put a stop to this migrating disposition by anathematizing all persons who had expressed any intention of leaving the city. |
TIOGA [ ] EAGLE. Vol. VI. Wellsborough, Pa., Wednesday, July 3, 1844. No. ?
Outrage at Nauvoo. -- The steamer Osprey arrived at St. Louis on the 12th, and reports that on Monday night, the 11th, the office of the "Expositor" -- the Anti-Jo Smith paper, was destroyed by a band of the Prophet's dupes. The Expositor was established by a number of Mormons who opposed Jo Smith's course, and the disclosures made through it completely enraged Jo and his supporters. The Council, therefore, declared that paper a nuisance, and then sent the City Marshall with an armed posse to destroy the office. The work of destruction was completed about ten o'clock at night. |
Vol. II. Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday, July 8, 1844. No. 252. DEATH OF JOE SMITH AND OTHERS. It appears that Joe and Hiram Smith, and a number of other Mormon leaders were in jail, confined on certain offences against the laws of the State. The Carthage Greys, a volunteer company, were placed as a guard around the jail. About 6 o'clock, on the evening of the 27th, an attempt was made by the Mormons on the outside to rescue the prisoners from the custody of the Guard. A youth, about 19 years of age (a Mormon,) began the fray of shooting the sentinel at the door, wounding him severely in the shoulder. -- Simultaneously with this attempt, the Mormons on the inside of the jail, including the Smiths, presented pistols through the windows and doors of the jail and fired upon the guard without; wounding, it is supposed, mortally, four of the old citizens of Hancock! It is enough to say that this bloodthirsty attempt on the part of the Mormons, was the signal for certain and sure vengeance. The lives of Joe Smith and his brother Hiram, and Richards, Joe Smith's Secretary, were quickly taken, and we believe no others. Carthage was filled with Mormons, previous to the affray, the Mormons appeared to be collecting around the jail, for the purpose of attempting the rescue of their leader. |
Vol. II. Pittsburgh, Pa., Tuesday, July 9, 1844. No. 253.
==> THE PROGRESS OF MOB LAW. -- The murder of Joe Smith and his brother Hiram is another fearful evidence of the rapid progress that mob law is making in our country, and will create alarming forebodings for the permanancy of the internal safety of the country, if the strong arm of the civil authorities is not raised to prevent citizens of every shade of opinion. That provision of the constitution which purports to grant permission to all to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences is becoming a dead letter; the religious freedom of which we boast will soon be trampled under the feet feet of the mob, whose brutal passions can only be appeased by the destruction of property and the spilling of blood. |
Vol. XI. - No. 25. Wednesday, July 10, 1844. Whole No. 545. We find the following in the Cincinnati Gazette of Wednesday last. The death of the Smiths has beyond all doubt led to a bloody collision between the Troops and the Mormons. The situation of Gov. Ford, it will be seen, was critical. Should the Mormons have attacked him before he could retreat they would be very likely to have destroyed the small body of men under his command. Their destruction will infallibly bring upon the Mormons an extirpating war. From the tenor of former advices it seems the citizens of the surrounding counties were eager for some plea to drive the Mormons from the State. They are likely to have their hands full now. We shall look for further news with great anxiety. DEATH OF JOE AND HIRAM SMITH. The steamboat Boreas just in from Warsaw, brings shocking intelligence from the scene of the Mormon war. The following slip from the office of the Warsaw Signal explains the dreadful tragedy: |
Vol. XX. Beaver, Pa., Wednesday, July 10, 1844. No. 28. IMPORTANT NEWS. We find the following in the Cincinnati Gazette of Wednesday last. The death of the Smiths has beyond all doubt led to a bloody collision between the Troops and the Mormons. The situation of Gov. Ford it will be seen was critical. Should the Mormons have attacked him before he could retreat they would be very likely to have destroyed the small body of men under his command. Their destruction will infallibly bring upon the Mormons an extirpating war. From the tenor of former advices it seems the citizens of the surrounding country were eager for some plea to drive the Mormons from the State. They are likely to have their hands full now. We shall look for further news with great anxiety. |
Vol. 1 - No. 3. Pittsburgh, July 12, 1844. Price 2 cts. THE MURDER OF JOE SMITH. The Louisville Journal of July 3d, says: "We have seen a gentleman who was in Nauvoo on Friday, and who informs us that all was quiet there, the prominent Mormons exhorting their followers to offer no insult or molestation to any one, and in no case to offer violence except in strict self-defence. The deepest grief and affliction pervaded the city. There appeared to be no danger of the burning of Warsaw or Carthage." |
Vol. 38. Washington, Pa., Saturday, July 13, 1844. No. 1. Joe and Hiram Smith are Dead! The steamboat Boreas, just arrived from Warsaw, brings shocking intelligence from the scene of the Mormon war. The following slip from the office of the Warsaw Signal, explains the dreadful tragedy: |
Vol. XX. Beaver, Pa., Wednesday, July 17, 1844. No. 29.
--> From St. Louis we have papers to July 6. All was quiet at Warsaw and Nauvoo at last accounts. The flame is not quenched, however, and will work again before long -- |
TIOGA [ ] EAGLE. Vol. VI. Wellsborough, Pa., Wednesday, July 24, 1844. No. 48. The Murder of Joe Smith. The St. Louis New Era, alluding to the murder of Joe Smith and his brother, remarks that "it is a another flagrant instance of the triumph of a mob spirit in this country. -- To murder prisoners in cold hood when there is nothing to prevent their being punished to the full extett of their crimes according to law, is utterly inexcusable. But when a mob is once raised and excited, it knows no bounds, no moderation, but reason and law are both disregarded. We have often expressed the belief that mobs and Lynch law are improper under all circumstances, and should not be justified, excused or tolerated under any circumstances, and every outbreak confirms the correctness of this opinion. Joe Smith, was no-doubt, deeply steeped in crime; but when he was under arrest, with public sentiment setting strongly against him, there was the most ample opporturiity to convict and punish him legally and severely." |
Vol. II. Pittsburgh, Pa., Thursday, August 29, 1844. No. 297.
From Nauvoo.-- We have intelligence from Nauvoo to the 5th inst. All was quiet. It appears that the reports of the appearance of Joe Smith and the appointment of his son as prophet are false, and originated in a desire to injure the Mormons abroad. -- Sidney Rigdon had returned to Nanvoo from Pitttburg, and preached to the people on the 4th inst. In consequence of the death of Samuel Smith, Joe's brother, since the murder of the prophet, Sidney Rigdon will be chosen Patriarch of the Mormon flock. He is their master spirit, and will make a shrewd and energetic leader. There are five widows of the Smith family family now living in Nauvoo; the mother of all, and the late wives of Joe, Hiram, and their two brothers. -- Accessions to the Mormon strength continue to be quite large. In Nauvoo the usual activity is apparent, and the Temple is steadily going up in its uniqe form and shape. Its style of architecture is of the pure Mormon order. |
Vol. II. Pittsburgh, Pa., Thursday, September 5, 1844. No. 303.
Items from Nauvoo. -- We clip the following from the Warsaw Signal: |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Friday, September 6, 1844. No. 5. From Nauvoo. The Cincinnati Commercial has received intelligence from Nauvoo, from which we gather the following particulars: -- The poor deluded Mormons are now more sadly duped than ever. The mother of Joe Smith, a very aged woman, states that he has risen and talked to her. She has great influence with the saints, and they believe her. A lad of fourteen years, the oldest son of the murdered Prophet, declares that his father's ghost has visited him at night, and appointed him his successor. Whereupon he declares all other pretended prophets imposters. Emma, the wife of the fallen prophet, says her people will, as soon as arrangements can be made, emigrate to Oregon, but wish to be protected in the rights of their property, and the murderers of the prophet given up to the civil authorities to be dealt with according to law. |
Vol. III. Pittsburgh, Pa., Thursday, September 19, 1844. No. 9. MORMON NEWS. The Warsaw Signal, keeps, apparently, a pretty keen eye upon the Mormons at Nauvoo. That paper says that Lyman Wright [sic], one of the leaders of the Mormons, has left Nauvoo for the pine regions of the Wisconsin, with about two hundred followers, comprising the most reckless of the Mormon community. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sept. 25, 1844. No. 1.
MORMON NEWS. -- The last Nauvoo Neighbor says that the hand of fellowship has been withdrawn from Elders Rigdon. James Emmitt and Zachariah Wilson. The Warsaw Signal says it was rumored, that on Saturday week last, nineteen of the leading Mormons were ejected from the church, among them, John Forge [sic - John A. Forges?] and Emmit [sic - Emma?] Smith. The Temple is still going ahead, the third tier of windows being ready to receive their caps. Above them, is to be a belt of course stone, and then six feet of plain cut stone work, will finish the walls. |
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL. Vol. V. Sunbury, Pa., Saturday, September 28, 1844. No. 1. A Vision at Nauvoo. Though Joe Smith is dead, the gift of prophecy remains with some of his followers, who seem to exercise it as Joe did, for their own advantage. Sidney Rigdon has had a quarrel with the twelve and they have cut him off from the Church. He threatens to come out with an exposition, and professes to have had a vision, in which it was shown him all that would transpire to the winding-up scene. He says he has received the keys of David, spoken of in the third chapter of the Revelation, which shutteth and no man openeth, and openeth and no man shutteth. It has been shown to him that the temple will not be finished, and in less than four years there will be blood shed: about this time the saints will fight the first great battle at Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania; the second at Harrisburg; third at Philadelphia; fourth, at Baltimore; fifth, at Washington; sixth, at Richmond; seventh, at New York; eighth at Boston: ninth, on the Hudson: tenth and last on this continent, at Monmouth, New Jersey, in which they will defeat the forces of Queen Victoria; take the shipping that brought over her army, and pass over in divisions, to England, France and Spain, and finally complete the conquest of the world; and fight the battles of Gog and Magog at Jerusalem, when the Saviour will appear, which will be in about eleven years from this time. Sidney says the keys he holds are above those held by Joseph. He has ordained several prophets, who are not to leave Nauvoo at present, but that a sign will be given them when to leave, so that they may assemble and take command of the army. If they have so grand a warlike job to perform, they had better begin soon. It will take some time to carry out this design of universal conquest. |
Vol. III. Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday, September 30, 1844. No. 18.
Mormon News. -- The last Nauvoo Neighbor says that the hand of friendship has been withsrawn from Elders Rigdon, James Emmitt, and Zachariah Wilson. The Warsaw Signal says it was rumored, that on Saturday week last, nineteen of the leading Mormons were ejected from the church, among them John A. Forge and Emma Smith. The Temple is still going ahead, the third tier of windows being ready to receive their caps. Above them, is to be a belt of course stone, and then six feet of plain cut stone work, will finish the walls. |
Vol. XX. Beaver, Pa., Wednesday, October 2, 1844. No. ? THE MORMON. This is to say to all my friends, and the friends of the 'Everlasting Gospel' of Jesus Christ, that I am at leisure to wait on them, in any place, in the ministry of the gospel, where there is the greatest door open for doing the most good in my capacity, this one thing considered, I must settle my family in that part of the country that becomes the field of my labor. All communications addressed to me -- in Brighton, Beaver Co., Pa. Post paid -- will be duly attended to. |
Vol. XII. Thursday Afternoon, October 3, 1844. No. 50.
ANOTHER MORMON WAR. -- An express arrived in town on Wednesday evening last, bearing an order from Gov. Ford to the officers of the militia in this and neighboring counties, commanding them to call out a portion of their forces and march to places of rendezvous, which he mentioned, in the counties bordering upon Nauvoo. The reason assigned for this is that the citizens of Hancock and the surrounding counties, intend holding a large wolf hunt, and it is feared an attack upon Nauvoo is cloaked beneath this avowed intention. -- Jackson City Journal. |
Vol. XII. Tuesday Afternoon, October 8, 1844. No. 54. From the St. Louis New Era, Sept. 28. THE MORMON WAR. -- Our accounts of the movements of Gov. Ford and his army, by the boats which have arrived to-day from the Upper Mississippi and Illinois, are quite imperfect and uncertain. Those from the vicinity of Warsaw confirm the report which was received here yesterday of the flight of Sharp, the editor of the Warsaw Signal, and Col. Williams. The officers of the Boreas learned at Warsaw, as she passed down, that there were from one hundred to three hundred of Gov. Ford's soldiers at Carthage, but the exact designs or principal features of this military campaign does not seem to be rightly understood, even by those for whose express benefit it was gotten up, and as Gov. Ford has chosen to keep the matter pretty much to himself, we will have to wait patiently until he accomplishes something. It is said that he is trying to arrest and bring to justice the murderers of the Smiths. If this is his sole object, and he thinks it will take from one to two thousand troops to do it, why keep them at Rushville, or scattered over the country. |
Vol. XII. Thursday Afternoon, October 10, 1844. No. 56. Mormon Difficulties -- The officers of the steamer Monona from the Upper Mississippi report, that it was said at Warsaw that Governor Ford was encamped in the vicinity of Nauvoo, with about 1500 men. All things were quiet at Nauvoo and Warsaw, but it was thought that if the Governor attempted to forcibly arrest any of the persons suspected to be concerned in the murder of the Smiths a conflict would ensue. -- The Governor had sent a message to Quincy, the purport of which was not known. -- |
Spirit of the Age. Vol. ? Pittsburgh, Sunday Oct. 10, 1844. No. ?.
From the Morning Chronicle.
==> Notice is hereby given to the public to beware of receiving the ordinance of Baptism at the hands of Mr. Sidney Rigdon, Esq., or any of his adherents, thinking to attach themselves to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- for Mr. S. Rigdon is at this time expelled from the aforesaid Church, and all his adherents are suspended from the performance or administration of any ordinance whatever, until they repent and adhere to the proper authorities of the said Church. For whatever Mr. S. Rigdon, or his adherents may say, or do, under the pretention or nominal name of Latter Day Saints, in a legal point of light, will be no more in connection with the true Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, than the Republic of the United States has with the Crown of England. |
Vol. XII. Friday Afternoon, October 11, 1844. No. 57.
From the St. Louis New Era.
By the arrival of the Boreas, we are put in possession of a letter from a correspondent at Churchville, which gives the latest intelligence from Gov. Ford and the Mormon War: |
Vol. XII. Tuesday October 15, 1844. No. 60.
END OF THE THIRD MORMON WAR. -- A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from near Quincy, Illinois, under date of the 30th ult., gives the following account of the termination of Governor Ford's recent disgraceful campaign. |
Vol. 38. Washington, Pa., Saturday, October 19, 1844. No. 15.
DISSOLUTION OF THE
Through the politeness of a friend, we have received the following manifesto, of a portion of the Mormons in regard to the successorship of the impostor, Joe Smith. -- The elements of discord and disunion are successfully at work in the community at work in the community at Nauvoo; and no doubt rests upon our minds, but that the total dissolution of the Church will be the inevitable result. Factions may spring up among them, and some unprincipled and ambitious leader seek to set himself on the throne of power so firmly established by Joe Smith for his own base purposes. But every such attempt, will, as heretofore, result in a failure. -- With the fall of the mock "PROPHET," fell also the throne of despotism he had erected in this Republic, and the charm that enabled him to delude the populace has, with his death, departed, we trust forever. |
TIOGA [ ] EAGLE. Vol. ? Wellsborough, Pa., Wednesday, October 30, 1844. No. ?
WHO IS JOE SMITH'S MOTHER. -- It is stated that Mrs. Joseph Smith, senior, mother of Joe, the Prophet, was born in Montague, Mass., is 63 years old, and her maiden name was Lucy Mack. Her father kept for several years the tavern in Montague, known afterwards as the "Gunn Tavern," and afterwards kept a public house in Keene, N. H. She also for a time before her marriage lived with a relation in South Hadley. |
Vol. 38. Washington, Pa., Wednesday, October 30, 1844. No. 17.
==> How far it may be true that the Catholics are banding themselves together politically. we are not able to say; it is so alleged, and with some apparent plausibility... The great mass of our religious denominations, of every kind, divide upon the subject of politics and are found like any civic class of citizens, a part for our party and our candidates, and a part for the other party and candidates. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 6, 1844. No. 2.
MRS. JOE SMITH. -- GRAND DESIGN OF THE PROPHET. -- A correspondent at Alton, after stating that the recent murder of Joe Smith had been followed by a dispersion of his adherents, gives the following interesting items: Mrs. Joe Smith, it is said, has lost all confidence (if she ever had any) in the Mormon faith. She will soon retire to some secure situation, undoubtedly the richest lady in the West. Joe had been amassing money for several years, for the purpose of eventually going to Jerusalem, intending to issue a proclamation calling in the Jews, over whom he was to be head till the return of Christ upon the earth -- which event, he believed, would take place 45 years from 1844. |
Vol. XII. Pittsburgh, Thursday November 7, 1844. No. ?
GOV. FORD appears to be determined to keep up the escitement between the citizens of Hancock county and the Mormons, and if a collision does not ensue, it will certainly not be his fault. By the officers of the steamer Osprey, which left Nauvoo on Saturday evening last, we learn that a part of the Nauvoo Legion were being armed, and were to march to Carthage, in compliance with an order from the Governor -- but for what purpose was not positively known, but was supposed to [relate to] circumstances growing out of the trial of Sharpe and others, which is now progressing at that place. In a day or two we shall know the particulars. -- |
Vol. III. Pittsburgh, Tuesday, November 12, 1844. No. 55 JOE SMITH, THE MORMON PROPHET. This was a very remarkable man, and his murder has brought no slight strain upon the State in which it was perpetrated. The Governor's pledge of honor for his safety did not secure him from assassination, though there was a company of armed men set over him to make good the pledge, and guard him against all violence. We lament the fanaticism of his followers, but the fanaticism which led to his violent death was, if not greater in itself, certainly of a more dangerous character. It was the fanaticism of hatred and cruelty -- a fanaticism that could not wait on the action of the law in the case of a prisoner, who had surrendered himself to the highest authority in the State, and that authority pledged to bring him to trial. |
Vol. XII. Pittsburgh, Wednesday November 13, 1844. No. ?.
ROBBERY AT NAUVOO. -- The Mormons still seem to think that they render God service by robbing the Gentiles. On the night of the 16th of October, the store of Mr. Harrison Kimball at Nauvoo was robbed. A small safe, painted green, was taken, containing about $400 in gold, silver and paper money. A receipt for $8,000 worth of notes, given by Gamble and Walker; certificates of stock for $10,000 of the Farmers and Mechanics Insurance Company of St. Louis; 1 piece of blue cloth; 2 piece of blue Ky. janes; 1 piece mixed cloth; 1 piece olive cloth; 30 pieces prints, linsey, blue drills, bleached sheeting, and 1 $10 bill on the Jefferson County Bank, New York, No. 4121, letter A. Nothing has been heard of the goods or money since they so mysteriously disappeared -- |
Vol. XII. Pittsburgh, Thursday November 14, 1844. No. ?
MORMON DIFFICULTIES. -- We understand, says the St. Louis Republican, that the late grand jury of Hancock county, Illinois, assembled at Carthage, found indictments for the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, against Sharp, Williams and ten others, making in all twelve indictments. -- It is believed some curious and probable strange developments of the political maneuvering and management of some of the political managers in Illinois will me made in the course of these trials. We are told that nearly every one indicted has caused subpoenas to be issued for Governor Ford; and boast of what they can prove in justification or extenuations by the Governor, Time will show how far these expectations are to be realized. |
Vol. 38. Washington, Pa., Saturday, November 16, 1844. No. 19.
From the Transcript
Its location; how the Mormons came by it; the dimentions of the city; of the city; houses; all residents are not of the Church; Temple; sculptured pilasters; interior finished; brazen laver; created by voluntary labor; the city will never be abandoned by its builders. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20, 1844. No. 4. MORMONISM. Rigdon now says that Nauvooites are worse than Sodomites. -- Enq. |
Vol. 38. Washington, Pa., Saturday, November 23, 1844. No. 20.
From the Illinois State Register, Nov. 1.
We saw a statement in the Missouri Republican, that the Mormons and Indians had assembled in great force, near Carthage, in Hancock county, Illinois, as it was supposed, with hostile intentions towards some of the good citizens of the county, &c. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1844. No. 6. The Mormons Divided. One party of the Mormons have issued their manifesto, declaring the Mormon church to be dissolved on account of its rejection of Rigdon as its divinely appointed leader. |
Vol. XII. Pittsburgh, Tuesday December 31, 1844. No. 126. MORMON TROUBLES. We learn from the Warsaw Signal that the Mormon difficulties in Hancock county, Illinois, are increasing. A long list of acts thieving are given, attributed to the Mormons. Public meetings have been called by the Anti-mormons to take measures to defend and protect themselves from the depradations. The end of the trouble in that region is not yet. |
Vol. XII. Wednesday Morning, January 8, 1845. No. 133.
MORMONISM. -- Gov. Ford of Illinois has sent a long-labored message to the Legislature on the subject of "Mormon Difficulties." It forms a pamphlet, and the object of it appears to be to white-wash the Mormons and himself, and to blackguard the old citizens of Hancock county. He will secure to himself a just claim to the appellation of the Great Honey-fuggler. He feels as if his unjust and gasconading proceedings in relation to the Mormons had brought on him the contempt of a large portion of the people, and that it is necessary for him to make this labored defence. It would appear that he is still hampered by the ghost of Joe Smith, and that he is trying to get clear of it by casting the blame on the people of Hancock. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1845. No. 11.
ANTICIPATED EXPOSURE OF MORMONISM. -- Mr. Wood, one of Joe Smith's counsel at the time of his death, is said to have prevailed on the late prophet's widow, to make a full exposure of Mormonism, and to allow him to publish it. -- The story, however, is rather doubtful. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1845. No. 12.
From the Christian Reflector.
It is but a few weeks, since the death of Joe Smith was announced. His body now sleeps, and his spirit has gone to its reward. Various are the opinions of men concerning this singular personage; but whatever may be the views of any reference to his principles, objects, or moral character, all must admit that he was one of the most remarkable men of the age. |
Vol. XII. Monday Morning, January 27, 1845. No. 150.
THE MORMON CHARTERS. -- In the Illinois House of Representatives, at the date of our latest intelligence, the subject of the repeal of the Mormon charters was under full discussion. The two or three Mormon members of the House were storming like madmen. One or two test votes left little or no doubt that the infamous charters would be repealed. All the better portion of the Locofoco members went for the repeal with scarecely less zeal than the Whigs. Mr. Benedict, a leading Locofoco, declared that no man was more strongly wedded in his party than he, but that great as was the Locofoco majority in the State, he would far prefer defeat, standing by the immutable principles of truth and honesty, to seeing his party longer triumph by truckling to the miserable Mormons. -- |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1845. No. 16.
THE MORMON CHARTERS. -- In the Illinois House of Representatives, at the date of our latest intelligence, the subject of the repeal of the Mormon charters was under full discussion. The two or three Mormon members of the House were storming like madmen. One or two test votes left little or no doubt that the infamous charters would be repealed. All the better portion of the Locofoco members argue for the repeal with scarcely less zeal than the whigs. Mr. Benedict, a leading Locofoco, declared that no man was more strongly wedded to his party than he, but that, great as was the Locofoco majority in the State, he would prefer defeat, standing by the immutable principles of truth and honesty, to seeing his party longer triumph by truckling to the miserable Mormons. -- |
Vol. XII. Monday Morning, March 5, 1845. No. 181.
ILLINOIS. -- The Legislature is bringing their business to a close. We are gratified to see that the Senate have laid on the table the bill granting a new charter to Nauvoo. The Canal bill occupies the principal attention... |
Vol. XII. Thursday Morning, March 20, 1845. No. 194. ==> The city of Nauvoo will not give up its charter, notwithstanding the legislative act of its repeal. Recently the Municipal election came off as usual. The St. Louis Reveille observes that all the officers of the city were duly elected. The whole system of government in the city is enforced as usual. The leading Mormons say the Legislature has no power to repeal their charter, that it is not repealed, and they will pay no attention to the repeal law, but to go on as usual. We may anticipate a quarrel. |
Vol. XII. Thursday Morning, March 26, 1845. No. 199.
THE MORMONS. -- We learn from Hancock county, Illinois, that considerable apprehension exists of further difficulties with the Mormons. It appears that the Sheriff of the county on last Friday evening arrested at a ball an individual named Elliott, who had been taken up and tried at Nauvoo a short time since, charged with being concerned in the murder of the Smiths, but had escaped from his custody before committing him to prison. Elliott had made an application for a writ of habeas corpus, and it is supposed he will be liberated. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1845. No. 16.
NAUVOO. -- A constable of Hancock county, from near Warsaw, has lately been arrested and imprisoned at Nauvoo while in discharge of his duty. His jailors have expressed their determination to hold on to him at all hazards. He is charged with being concerned in the Smith murders. |
Extra.] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 11?, 1845. [Extra. TERRIBLE VISITATION. Like the broad river whose silent flow renders us insensible to the sources whence it derives its waters, the ordinary providences of God are so mild and equable that they frequently lull us to repose, and fail to make us feel that the Most High either pervades them with his presence or controls them by his power. It is when his judgments, like the mountain torrent, come 'rushing amain down,' that man is made sensibly alive to his glory. If night shines forth in unsullied beauty -- calm, broad, and glorious, mortals rightfully indeed, but thoughtlessly alas! embrace its sacred repose, and softly dream away the lee-long night; but if the Eternal pitch his tent in the heavens; if he make his pavilion round about him dark waters and thick clouds of the sky; if he flies upon the wings of the wind, and the stars are the dust of his feet, men are wakeful, they tremble and are afraid, and confess a present God. When Morn enthrones herself on the brow of heaven, arrayed in glory and beauty, heralded by the throng of woodland voices, fanned by scented breezes, her feet washed in the dews of night; when Flora scatters her path with flowers, and the whole earth is responsive to her all-cheerful voice, mortals are entranced with the beauty and sublimity of nature. But does she come on in clouds and storms? Does she array herself in bickering lightnings, and speak to the nations in peals of thunder? then men stand aghast, they are aroused, and lose their sense of the sublime and beautiful in their reverence for Him |
Vol. XII. Thursday Morning, April 22, 1845. No. 221.
A NEW PROPHET. -- It is rumored that Orson Hyde is to become the prophet and head of the Mormon church. It is not said by what process he is to derive his authority. J. B. Backenstos, the Mormon representative in the last Legislature, from Hanock county, Ill., has been waited upon by the citizens of Carthage, and notified to leave the county within a week. In the event of his refusal, they promise him a visit not of so pacific a character. The cause of this proceeding, on the part of the citizens, was an attack made by Backenstos upon the old citizens in a speech delivered in the Legislature. -- |
Vol. XII. Thursday Morning, May 5, 1845. No. 232.
==> The following correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune very truly states the condition of affairs at Nauvoo, and the surrounding country. From a careful observation of this paper, and by correspondence, we have become convinced that the Mormons will have to be driven off by force or the people must leave their neighborhood entirely. Their ignorance and fanaticism, and theivish propensities, render it impossible for any community to live in peace with them.
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Vol. XII. Pittsburgh, Thursday, May 7, 1845. No. 234.
MORE MORMON FANATICISM. Very few of our readers we presume are aware that Pittsburgh is the center of a very important and extensive branch of the Mormon delusion, and that Grand Councils, and Conventions and Quorums are held here, and that a semi-monthly paper is published. The head of this branch of these modern impostors is SIDNEY RIGDON, who was well known in this region, as a Baptist preacher, before he united his fortunes with those of Joe Smith. Since the death of the latter, Rigdon has fallen out with the "Council of Twelve," who now rule at Nauvoo, and was forcibly compelled to leave the "city of thieves." We do not understand exactly the nature of the quarrel, but bekieve that Rigdon, who was one of the three members of the High Presidency, -- Joe and Hiram Smith being the other two, -- on the death of the Smiths, considered himself of the highest power and authority among the 'Saints.' The 'Council of Twelve,' the next in authority, not relishing this, usurped the supreme power, asserting that as the quorum of Presidents was broken, it could not be restored. They therefore expelled Rigdon, and have maintained their power to the present. Many of the "Saints," however, have rallied around Rigdon, who has established himself in this city, and has lately received so many new revelations that he bids fair to rival Joe Smith himself. |
Vol. XII. Thursday Morning, May 8, 1845. No. 235. "PITTSBURGH MORMONISM." We use this term in contradistinction to "Nauvoo Mormonism," as it differs in some essential particulars, and is probably the more dangerous fanaticism of the two. We yesterday gave some account of the institution of the Church of the Pittsburgh branch of this modern heresy, but since then through the politeness of some of the Mormon leaders, we have been put in possession of a copy of each number of their periodical issued since SIDNEY RIGDON made his headquarters here last November. From these documents we have gleaned some additional facts, which may prove of some interest to our readers. |
Vol. XII. Tuesday Morning, June 3, 1845. No. 257.
CANNON FOR THE MORMONS. -- The last Warsaw Signal contains a letter from Medina, O., stating that the Mormons are getting twenty-four pieces of Ordinance cast in Cuyahoga county, O. It is said some of them are already cast and marked Nauvoo Legion. |
Vol. XII. Wednesday Morning, June 4, 1845. No. 258. Pittsburgh Mormonism. This new phase in fanaticism continues to put forth remarkable supernatural revelations to astonish the ignorant and superstitious. The "Messenger and Advocate," the organ of the Branch of Mormonism in this city, is full of Rigdon's effusions, and letters from traveling missionaries abroad. He complains very much that his Church is confounded with that of the Twelve at Nauvoo, and insists that it is totally dissimiliar in every essential particular. He talks with detestation of their wickedness -- repudiates it entirely, and consigns it over to perdition; says the Twelve and their followers are hastening to destruction, and mentions particularly that in such abhorrence does the Church here hold the Nauvoo Mormons, they cannot be received without repentance, confession of their faith and baptism. He characterizes the Nauvoo Mormons as polygamists, liars, perjurers, coiners, counterfeiters, &c. -- quite a catalogue. It is clear enough from his account, that they are not at all responsible for the infamous expression of a wish in the Nauvoo Neighbor that "God who never errs, might sprinkle, upon every man and city that belies the saints, as upon Pittsburgh, now and then a hot drop!" The enmity between the two is excessively bitter. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1845. No. 26. MORMONISM AND CATHOLICISM. In the "Pittsburgh Catholic" of the 10th inst., the late outrageous proceedings of Mr. Rigdon and the Mormon Conference in this city, are cited at some length, and with incredible perversity held up to the readers of that Journal as facts illustrative of the nature and dangerous tendency of the great Protestant principle of "Free Inquiry." The Catholic says: |
Vol. XII. Monday Morning, June 9, 1845. No. 262.
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Vol. XII. Tuesday Morning, June 10, 1845. No. 263. The editor of the Nauvoo Neighbor says: "The glory, honor and blessings of Nauvoo, if we are left alone, will be felt round the globe. Already good men see it Why? -- a mean man or a Rigdonite, feels his own nothingness in the presence of the saints, and melts in the glance of the Lord 'like the first frost of fall.'" |
Vol. XII. Friday Morning, June 13, 1845. No. 266.
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Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1845. No. 27. The Pittsburgh Catholic. After the pompous flourish, with which the Catholic tendered to us an issue for discussion, and after we had given him another opportunity, accompanied with a special invitation to meet our argument in support of the Divine inspiration of the Old Testament Scriptures, the following is his reply: |
Vol. XII. Thursday Morning, June 19, 1845. No. 271. THE MORMONS OF NAUVOO. There has been manifested a disposition on the part of the sober, law-abiding part of the community, to judge [-----ly] of the proceedings of the inhabitants of Hancock county, Illinois, in which Nauvoo is situated, in their resistance to the encroachments and theiving propensities of the Mormons. The conduct of the Anti-Mormons has been looked upon more as a crusade against the Mormon's religious faith, and a persecution of a harmless and fanatical people, than as an attempt to defend and preserve their own lives and property. Were the true state of the case understood, this judgment would be immediately reversed, and the Anti-Mormons of Hancock county be pronounced as patient and forbearing under the infliction of the direct evils, as any community in the United States. The fact is, had Hancock county been settled, as Missouri is, with emigrants principally from Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, the Mormons would have been driven off or exterminated long ago; but the inhabitants being, most of them, from the free states, with quite a large population from New England, and educated in the strictest regard and reverence for the laws, they approach with dread any infraction of their letter, even in self-defense, and when no other recourse is left. |
Vol. XII. Thursday Morning, June 20, 1845. No. 272.
The last number of the "Nauvoo Neighbor," the organ of the Mormons, gives the following description of the putting on the capstone of the Temple: |
Vol. XII. Tuesday Morning, June 24, 1845. No. 275.
MORMON PETITION. -- In the Connecticut Legislature, on the 31st ult., says the Hartford Courant, a message was received from his Excellency, the Governor, accompanied by a communication from Brigham Young, and others, "a committee of the Latter Day Saints," at Nauvoo -- otherwise called Mormons -- asking for Asylum in Connecticut, or for aid in obtaining one elsewhere. They claim to be [law-pr-----ing] citizens, and say Illinois has treated them as bad as Missouri. The former "pounced upon their patriarch and their prophet, repealed their chartered rights," &c. They say that many citizens of Connecticut are among them -- and request the Governor to convene a special session of the Legislature to grant them an asylum, and to aid in establishing a colony of "Latter Day Saints in Oregon." The message was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
Vol. XII. Monday Morning, July 7, 1845. No. 285.
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Vol. XII. Wednesday Morning, July 9, 1845. No. 287.
THE MORMON TRIALS. -- The extra term of the Hancock County (Illinois) Circuit Court for the trial of the indictment against the persons charged with the murder of Hyrum Smith, Joe's brother, was appointed for Tuesday the 24th of June, at Carthage. We learn from the St. Louis Republican, that the Court accordingly met, and remained in session until Wednesday morning; when no person appearing in behalf of the State to prosecute the indictment, the Judge ordered the case to be stricken from the docket, remarking that, inasmuch as neither the prosecuting attorney, nor the agent of the State, who prosecuted the first indictment, had thought proper to attend, although officially notified of the time of holding court, he would decline appointing a prosecutor. The accused were all present and desired a trial preferring a verdict of acquiital from a jury, and having the matter thoriughly put to rest. Nearly one hundred witnesses were summoned on the part of the State. |
Vol. XII. Wednesday Morning, July 16, 1845. No. 293.
FOURTH OF JULY IN NAUVOO. -- The St. Louis New Era has been informed by a gentleman who spent the birth day of American Independence in that city of fanatics, that no notice whatever was taken of it; the usual bsiness of the place was carried on without interruption; a large number of persons were at work on their holy temple. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1845. No. 32.
THE MORMONS, according to a western newspaper, are providing themselves with heavy munitions of war, having lately contracted for twenty-four pieces of ordinance, to be cast in Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. |
TIOGA [ ] EAGLE. Vol. ? Wellsborough, Pa., Wednesday, July 30, 1845. No. ? Nauvoo. The Warsaw Signal contains numerous statements of violence in or about Nauvoo. Irvine Hodges was murdered there -- he said his best friend killed him, yet gave no name. The Signal thinks he gave the name but it was suppressed. William Backenstos, late Sheriff of Hancock, has been ordered to leave the holy city. He is accused of being the correspondent of the Warsaw Signal. Patriarch Bill Smith, of Nauvoo, brother of the Prophet, whose wife died about four weeks since, was again married recently -- having been a widower about 18 days. His bride is about 16 years of age, and he is 35. The split among the Nauvoo Saints is growing wider. Bill Smith heads one party, the twelve disciples the other. |
Vol. XIII. Wednesday Morning, September 23, 1845. No. 43.
MORE TROUBLE WITH THE MORMONS. -- Our correspondent at Warsaw sent us by the La Clede, which arrived this morning, the following account of serious out-breaks between the Mormons and their opponents in Hancock county. -- WARSAW, 11th September, 1845. Messers. Editors: On Tuesday morning last (9th inst.,) an attack was made on a school house in Rocky [Road?] Precinct, by some persons unknown, but supposed to be Mormons, in which there was at the time of the attack a convention of Anti-Mormons, or old settlers of the county. The door and windows of the house were completely riddled by the shot fired by the assailants. The attacking party approached under cover of the wood and bushes, and fired one round and fled. No persons were injured, but many were, I presume, much frightened at the sudden and unexpected assault. The old settlers in that section of the county, armed themselves for defence and if they are backed by their friends in other parts of the county, blood will flow. By a messenger just in, who came to purchase lead, powder, flints, &c., I learn that four buildings were burned down last night, and one man shot, and very badly wounded, but not mortally. Yesterday thirteen wagons loaded with furniture, were seen wending their way to the City of Refuge, (Nauvoo.) |
Vol. XIII. Thursday Morning, September 25, 1845. No. 45. THE MORMON WAR. We give to-day copious extracts in relation to the fearful civil war now raging in Hancock and Adams counties, Illinois. From a very general acquaintance with the people of Hancock county, and the state of affairs there, we have duly looked for account of such scenes as are now enacting. The situation of affairs in that county, for the Anti-Mormons, or old inhabitants, is absolutely intolerable. The only remedy is to move off, and leave their farms, villages and towns, or to drive the Mormons off. Nobody will come in to purchase their property but Mormons, and they are too poor, and prefer, many of them, to live by depredations. Either the inhabitants of the county who settled it before the Mormons came in , and who were then in a highly prosperous condition, must leave the county at the sacrifice of everything, or the mormons must go. To live together is impossible. We would as soon live in the neighborhood of a clan of wild Arabs, as in that of an ignorant, fanatical, thieving, and clannish Mormon settlement. PROCLAMATION. To the Citizens of Hancock County. -- Whereas a mob of from one to two hundred men, under arms, having gathered themselves together in the south west part of Hancock county, and are at this time destroying the dwellings and other buildings, stacks of grain and other property, of a portion of our citizens, in the most inhuman manner, compelling defenceless children and women to leave their sick beds and exposing them to the rays of the parching sun, there to lay and suffer without the aid or assistance of a friendly hand to minister to their wants, in their suffering condition. |
Vol. XIII. Monday Morning, September 29, 1845. No. 48.
... One of the editors of the St. Louis Republican, who is at the seat of the war, has been endeavoring to effect a compromise in some way between the parties. |
Vol. XIII. Tuesday Morning, September 30, 1845. No. 49. THE MORMON WAR. The following interesting letter is from the editor of the St. Louis Republican, written just as he was leaving Warsaw for St. Louis. |
Vol. ? Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September ?, 1845. No. ? MORMON OUTRAGE. The correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from Warsaw, gives the following account of serious outbreaks between the Mormons and their opponents in Hancock county: |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1845. No. 43. THE MORMONS. There has been great excitement in Adams and Hancock counties, Ill., for some days; every mail brings us news of continued destruction of property -- the following we get from the daily papers. |
Vol. ? Pittsburgh, October 1, 1845. No. ?
THE MORMON DIFFICULTIES.
By the arrival of the steamer Boreas, at St. Louis, on the 22d ult., the people of that city have the latest intelligence of the Mormon war. By the New Era we learn that on the 20th ult., the Mormons, numbering between 500 and 800, under the command of sheriff Backenstos and E. A. Bedell, Postmaster at Warsaw, marched into that place in triumph. All the citizens who had taken an active part, or in any way sanctioned the late outrages, had previously left for the opposite side of the river, so there was but an empty victory. Backenstos, after marching his troops through the principal streets, and making some pretence to search for offenders, finally drew them up in a solid phlanx on the bank of the river, and in full view of the fugitives from his vengeance on the opposite side, he made them go through the various modes of exercise, no doubt to impress the refugees with a proper respect for his importance in future; when tired of displaying his military preparations, and after satisfying himself that none of the house burners and mobocrats were in the city, he placed a strong force on guard and withdrew with the main portion of his army to an encampment about two miles distant. The Mormon soldiers had full and quiet possession of the town when the Boreas left. |
Vol. XIII. Thursday Morning, October 3, 1845. No. 52. Correspondence of the St. Louis Republican.
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Vol. XIII. Tuesday Morning, October 7, 1845. No. 55.
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Vol. XIII. Saturday Morning, October 11, 1845. No. 59. From the St. Louis Republican. We have a letter from Churchville, opposite Warsaw, dated the 30th, giving the proceedings of a meeting held by the citizens of Clark county, which we have not room for this morning. We give the following extract: |
Vol. XIII. Wednesday Morning, October 15, 1845. No. 62. END OF THE MORMON WAR. By documents published in the St. Louis Republican, we learn that the Mormons have entered into a definite arrangement to leave Illinois in the spring, in a body, for some place west of the Rocky Mountains. This arrangement has been amicably agreed upon -- in fact, the Mormons say they had intended going at any rate, had the distirbances not taken place. A small military force will be kept in the county to preserve order until the removal takes place. |
Vol. ? Pittsburgh, October 15, 1845. No. ?
MORMON NEWS. -- We copy the following from the St. Louis Republican of Monday the 6th: -- "Our correspondence from Warsaw states rge result of the deliberations if the Anti-Mormon convention at Carthage last week. Nine of the adjoining counties were represented, and it will be seen that they resolved that the Saints must leave by spring. As the official proceedings have not yet reached us, we are unacquainted with the mode proposed to effect this object, but hope it may be such as to leave no doubt on the subject. We learn by the Die Vernon that Gen. Hardin had arrested Backenstos, and it was said, intended to send him to Springfield -- with what object we are not informed. Nauvoo was quiet, and Gen. Hardin had left the place with the forces under his command," |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1845. No. 46.
KNEELAND AND JOE SMITH. -- The year 1844 will be memorable to those in this vicinity, for the death of two distinguished leaders in the ranks of opposition -- the Mormon Prophet by the hand of violence. He who had surveyed the country far and near, and stuck his twelve stakes where he was to build twelve temples answering to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel; has gone to meet his God, ere one temple is half completed. His followers are divided and scattered, and his schemes are ere long to come to nought. The Prophet of Atheism, too, who some years since in a public assembly, in the metropolis of New England, dared the Almighty to strike him dead, and gave him five minutes in which to do it, and held his watch in his hand with his arm extended until the minutes had expired, and then said "Where is now your God?" -- and who for the last six years, had been propagating his Atheism in Iowa, with a zeal and self consecration worthy of a better cause -- he too, has passed unconsciously, to the judgment seat.... So have perished the champions of Mormonism and Atheism, and so will perish the champions of infidelity and the unrepenting legions of the Man of Sin. -- |
Spirit of the Age. Vol. III. Saturday, October 25, 1845. No. 160. Mormon Affairs. The military force stationed in Hancock county is under the command of Col. Wm. B. Warren, of Jacksonville, Illinois. The Quincy Rifle Company, numbering fifty men, comprise a part of this force. Col. Warren seems to have been successful in capturing two Mormon thieves and finding the peoperty in their possession in Nauvoo. The Quincy Whig furnishes the following facts, and subjoins affidavits to all the material points, made by Thos. J. Taylor: |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1845. No. 48. END OF THE MORMON WAR. The St. Louis Republican of the 8th inst. has this correspondence between the Anti-Mormon Committee and the President and Council of the Mormon Church which discloses the terms on which the parties have agreed to suspend hostilities. The following official letter from the Mormons will enable our readers to get a clear understanding of the matter. |
nsVol. VII. Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, November 5, 1845. No. 49.
==> The Mormons, it seems, are not united with reference to their removal beyond the Rocky Mountains. The St. Louis New Era says that there has been a feud and division among them. It is stated that after the murder of Joe Smith, there was a struggle for the ascendancy; Sidney Rigdon thought that he ought to be the next in command, but he was defeated and denounced. Emma Smith, the widow, seemed disposed to be the spiritual ruler, but her claims were not recognized; William Smith, the brother of Joe, set himself up as Patriarch, but the other Mormon leaders would not give him control of their affairs. Brigham Young and the Council of Twelve, then took upon themselves the spiritual and temporal government of the Mormons. They propose to remove the Saints beyond the Rocky Mountains, and there set up for themselves. To this William Smith, the pretended Patriarch, is violently opposed, and he resists it with all his power. He favors the plan of a dispersion of the Mormons and their settlement throughout the country, but is in favor of an adherence to their religious absurdities and superstitious observances. He thinks that if their religious and political embodiment in separate communities, were abandoned, that the violent opposition to them would cease, and that they would enjoy more peace. He denounces Young and his adherents, and the feud between them seems to be very violent. The mass of the Mormons appear to be disposed to adhere to Young and his party, as affording the best chance to carry out the objects and purposes of their fanatical association. |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1845. No. 50. Summary. Mormon Troubles. -- Notwithstanding the sacred promises made in their recent treaty with the State authorities of Illinois, the Mormons still continue their depredations upon the inhabitants of the adjacent country. The house of Mr. Crawford near Warsaw, was recently entered, during the family's absence and every thing of a portable nature stolen from it. Col. Warren, in an account of the affair, says: |
Vol. I. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1845. No. 51. THE MORMONS. We give below a portion of a letter which has appeared in the Journal of Commerce, giving an account of the occasions of hostility against the Mormons, as understood by their enemies. We give likewise the editorial remarks of that paper: -- |
Vol. XIII. Monday Morning, December 1, 1845. No. 101.
Mormon Affairs. -- The Warsaw Signal, of Wednesday, 19th ult. is devoted to matters relating to the Mormons. |
Vol. XIII. Saturday Morning, December 6, 1845. No. 106.
==> The Nauvoo Neighbor says that the Mormons have nearly two thousand five hundred wagons completed for the journey to the Pacific next spring. Many strangers are visiting Hancock county and Nauvoo for the purpose of purchasing property, and they are invited to do it. |
Vol. XIII. Saturday Morning, December 13, 1845. No. 112. ==> Two of the Nauvoo Saints were arrested in Burlington, Iowa, on the 29th ult., for passing counterfeit money. Their names were Cyrus Chase and Rufus Adams. Counterfeit money was also found upon them. They were both committed for trial |
Vol. II. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1845. No. 2. THE MORMONS. It will be seen from the following letter from the widow of the Prophet, that this extraordinary and baneful delusion is continuing to lose its power, and be exposed by those who have had the best opportunities to learn its history and true character. We are inclined to believe, that the insanity of which Mrs. Smith suspects her husband, was a moral and not mental madness -- the insanity of crime -- the madness of desperate wickedness. |
Vol. XIII. Wednesday Morning, December 31, 1845. No. 126.
THE MORMONS. -- The brother of Joe Smith, the Mormon prophet, who claims to be the patriarch of the religious sect, has published in one of the Cincinnatti papers, a letter, from which we make the following extract. He says: |
Vol. ? Pittsburgh, January 28, 1846. No. ?
HOAX. -- The New York Sun contains a letter from Dr. J. M. Bernhisel, from Nauvoo, enclosing a letter from Mrs. Smith the widow of Joseph Smith, in which she positively asserts that the letter which recently appeared in that paper, purporting to have been written by her, was a forgery. The letter alluded to was extensively copied and thought to be genuine. |
Vol. XIII. Saturday Morning, February 28, 1846. No. ?. LATEST FROM NAUVOO. We conversed with a gentleman on Monday night last, direct from Nauvoo. (and who, while there, observed closely the movements of the Saints) from whom we obtained some interesting items. He states that about one thousand or twelve hundred had already crossed the river, among whom were the Twelve, the High Council and all the principal men of the Church, and about one hundred females. They had been crossing night and day for several days, and were still crossing when he left. His information he derived from one of the principal men of the Church, with whom he was acquainted several years since, from his own observation and from the corroborative statements of many with whom he conversed. |
Vol. 38. Washington, Pa., Saturday, March 14, 1846. No. 36. ANOTHER MORMON HUMBUG. A short time since, Sidney Rigdon, the great apostle of Mormonism in this city, informed his hearers that if they would prepare their houses, they might expect a visit from seven of the distinguished inhabitants of the heavenly world; namely -- Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Elijah, Daniel and Malachi. Accordingly the "brethren" prepared for the expected visitors, but they didn't arrive. It appeared, however, that in the meantime, Sidney had received another Revelation, informing him, that the visit would be confined exclusively to those, who freely gave up all their property to the Lord. About twenty complied with the request, and waited for the angels, but once again they did not come. Sidney, as in the previous case, had in the interval received another Revelation, informing him that it would be inconvenient for the angels to call at the different houses, and he thought it would be more advisable for the "brethren" to call at his house and there await the coming of the heavenly messengers. |
Vol. XIII. Saturday Morning, May 14, 1846. No. 240.
AN ANTI-MORMON MEETING, composed of the citizens of Hancock county, Ill., was held at Carthage on the 23rd ult., at which resolutions were adopted, urging the anti-Mormons of the county not to act against the Mormons, without the consent and support of the citizens of the nine counties which went into convention last fall. They also express the opinion, that nothing short of the removal of the entire body of Mormons from the county will restore peace. |
Vol. 39. Washington, Pa., Saturday, May 22, 1847. No. 46.
MORMONS. -- We have copied from Eastern papers, recently, several statements of the setting Westward of a new tide of Mormon emigration. The delusion of Joe Smith, which it was supposed would be mainly dispelled by the death of that individual, and completely destroyed by the banishment of its victims from Nauvoo and the presence of the Great Temple, we should judge from sundry paragraphs that have recently met our eye, to be increasing both in England and Eastern sections of the United States -- another proof, added to the many lessons of history, that persecution only waters the seeds of error, and causes them to germinate and spring into vigorous growth where without it they would barely pierce the clod and after a while die out. |
nsVol. I. Clearfield, Pa., Saturday, January 8, 1848. No. 7. DIVORCED FROM A SPIRITUAL WIFE. The Supreme J. Court, sitting at Boston, has decreed a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, beftween Henry Cobb and his wife Augusta Cobb, on the application of the husband, who alleged that the wife had lived at Nauvoo, as the "spiritual wife" of Brigham Young. Geo. J. Adams, known as Elder Adams, testified to the, fact & the subject of a conversation with Mrs. Cobb, in which she acknowledged that persons had a right to live together in unlawful intercourse, and said it was right. The testimony of Mr. Adams was corroborated by a widow lady, who had been to Nauvoo, and while there had taken the first degree in the mysteries of the Mormon Church. The second degree gave the privilege of spiritual wifehood. Mrs. Cobb took this degree, and urged the witness to take it, and spoke of her connection with Young. Mr. Adams said that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormons, did not teach the doctrine of spiritual wives. |
Vol. XVI. Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania, Friday, February 2, 1849. No. 152.
California Gold -- The Mormons --
Well, we have seen California Gold, felt it "[hefted]" it, as the Yankees say. It was brought to this city by Mr. E. Whipple, one of the leading men of the Mormon settlement in the neighborhood of the Great Salt Lake. The [parcel] we saw contained about one ounce. It is in a nearly pure state, being composed of [scales] of about [tenth] of an inch in diameter. It was obtained from the valley of the Sacramento by some Mormons who arrived at the settlement before Mr. Whipple left. |
Vol. VII. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, February 6, 1849. No. 271. Overland Route to California. We are indebted to Mr. Winchester, Third street, for the following description of the Route overland to the Great Salt Lake, the facts in which he gleaned from conversations with Mr. Whipple, the agent of the Mormons, who passed through this city a few days ago, having in his possession specimens of the California gold. |
Vol. VII. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 8, 1849. No. 273. Overland Route to California. We gave an article Tuesday, gleaned from conversations with the Mormon agent, Mr. WhippIe and to-day, give a few additional facts. |
Vol. I. Clearfield, Pa., Wednesday, July 25, 1849. No. 5. The Mormons at Beaver Islands. The Beaver Islands -- ten in number -- lie in the bosom of Lake Michigan, in about latitude 45 deg. 50 min., and are beginning to attract considerable attention, both on account of the healthfulness of their climate, the extent of their fisheries, and as the Zion or land of promise of a considerable body of Mormons, the followers of Mr. Strang. Big Beaver Island, the principal one of the group, is 13 miles in length, by seven in breadth, containing about 50,000 acres of fertile and well-timbered land. Paradise Bay forms the principal harbor, and is the seat of an extensive trade in fish, wood, &c. It is easily accessible, perfectly land-locked, and sufficiently capacious for all the craft on the Lakes. Around this bay the Mormons are making their settlements. There are two wood-yards and three stores in operation, a steam saw-mill is going up, and improvements are commenced on all the lands within four miles, beside various commencements in other locations. There are now employed in the fisheries some 200 boats and 500 or 600 fishermen; but the opening of farms, the building of mills, and the establishment of alll the various branches of business, always found in a settlement of a free and enterprising population, will soon leave this branch of business of comparative non-importance. Good stocks of cows have been brought on by the Mormons, who are intending to devote much attention to agriculture, with every prospect of success. Notwithstanding the high latitude, all the fine grains flourish, and the prospect is that the grazing will be of the first quality. In case they shall succeed, they will be able to furnish supplies to the Lake trade, at a point where there is no competition within 200 miles, and where the demand must always be great. |