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established a newspaper in Nauvoo called the
"Erpositor," devoted principally to the myste
rles and inquities of the spiritual wife, system
Inns press was Immediately destroyed by Smiths
orders and its propretors obliged to flee for their
lives from the vengeance of the DESTROYING Anoels
Foster and his associates got out warrants for the
arrest OF Smith, his brother Hyrum and other ac-
tors In thisproceeding. The warrants were laughed
at, and the constable elected from Nauvoo. The
militia were ordered out to sustain the authorities
OF the State. The MOrmons defed the military the
'Nauvoo Legion showed fight, the city was forti-
ned, the Saints hastened from all quarters to the
prophet. Affairs reached a crisis Now was the
time to have settled at once and forever this Dues
ton as to whether Mormonism and Polygamy
was to be power in the State to be crushed and
anmmlated. Every advantage was on the side of
the citizens Unlike the Missourans, they had right
and justice on their side, law their side and they
had, or could have had, the requisite force. Unfor
tunately, the opportunity was allowed to Slip the
crisis was postponed, the day of reckoning procras
tinated, and the question is upon us again. with ac
cumuated dangers, difficulties and embarrassments
The whole issue tamely evaporated in one of those
easy blunders called compromises Governor Ford
''anxious to spare the etfusOn of blood" proposed
to the rebels to lay down their arms, to submit to
the command of State officer, and to the Smiths
to surrender to the legal authorities to take their
trial for a riot pledging his part his own word
and the honor of the State, that they should be pro-
tected from the mob. The terms were agreed TO-
and Joseph and Hyrum Smith were lodged in the
Carthage Jail, the prophet meeky saying as he sur
rendered. 81 am going like lamb to the slaughter
but am calm as summers morning. | have
conscience void of offence, and shall die innocent
On the 9th of June 1914, mob of men, backened
and disguised, surrounded the jail, overpowered the
sheriff and his guard, and broke into the cell where
the Smiths confined The latter defended
themselves best they could but the prophets car
nal weapons did not avail him-his revolver snapped
and missed fire, and eapng from the window he fell
a corpse, with several musket balls in his BODY
This senseless and unfortunate blunder-or ca
tastrophe,-set the conclusive seal of martyrdom to
the pretensions of Mormonism. All of Smiths
Weaknesses and vices, his frauds, his RIGHTEOUSNESS
his literary absurdties his ridiculous assumptions,
all the plots upon his character and the stains upon
his life, were at once and forever washed out in the
blood of the confessOr. CSesar's ambition was for
gotten in the presence of Caesars rent and CORY
mantle. Charles the First atoned for course of
nkingly duplicity and illegal usurpation by few
moments of meek resignation and sublime forti
tude at the scaffold. Joseph Smith, the buffoon,
the swindler, the bertine and the zeaot was made,
by the indecent act of an irresponsible mob a hero
a martyr and a canonized saint
The curtain now falls, as it properly should upon
the catastrophe at the end of the third act When
1t rises again, new actors will appear upon the
stage, the will shift and the plot will swell
into grander proportions.