Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-30

For the same reason the MOrmOnS had soon to abandon Missouri also. where they had in the meantime acquired con- siderable property and established four ishing colonies. The decided hostility of the inhabitants of Jackson and neighbor- ing counties that would have none of the new doctrine, soon eliminated in all sorts of controversies and conflicts which ire quently led to actual warfare against the Saints" which only terminated in the latter's expulsion by the State militia from the counties of Jackson, Clay, Cald- well and Davis; Tn this latter they had founded the city Far West. To what high degree the animosity of the Gentiles had attained in Missouri Is shown by the following message sent on Nov. 10th, 1888, by General Clarke, commanding the State militia, to Governor Boggs, who had sent the former to the scene of trouble. He reported: "There Is not a crime from high treason down to petty larceny of which these people, or at least a great ma iority of them, have not been guilty under the guidance and leadership of Joseph Smith, their prophet They have per petrated high-treason, murder, rape, ar son, burglary, robbery, larceny and per jury. For the purpose of circumventing the laws and enriching their church by all nefarious and infamous means they have formed societies whose members are held to secrecy by the most binding VOWS and formidable oaths''
 Before the end of the year 1899 the Mormons had evacuated Missouri In order to facilitate this exodus the State authorities had appointed commissioners whose duty 1t was to assist the emigrants ln the disposal of property and general setting up their financial affairs They directed their steps towards Illinois where the inhabitants of Hancock county re- ceived the expelled ones kindly. They selected beautiful spot on the Mississip- pi and built there the city of Nauvoo.
 Brigham Young, together with other prominent adherents to the new creed, had in the meantime undertaken several extensive missionary travels; in the spring of lS41 the first considerable contingent of European converts arrived and lie himself after establishing missionary stations in Scotland, England and Wales, returned to the fold of the Saints at home. It seemed as though in Illinois the latter were going to find what had been denied in Ohio and Missouri, that toleratiOn at the hands of the non-believ- CTS, which alone would render the estab- llshment of permanent homes possible and advisable. Joseph Smith immediately became aware of this favorable circum- stance; he had revelation which ordered the erection of a grandiose temple. The faithful were enjoined to make offerings of all their Jewelry, etc, as well as of labor without remuneration for that pur- pose and so well did they respond to the exhortations of their elders that grand edifice, in size and form corresponding to the Solomonic temple, soon began to loom mp. A charter of the State of Illinois granted (lS42) J. Smith a number of con cesslons with regard to the newly found ed city, amongst which was the privilege of establishing and maintaining Mor- mon militia under the name of ''Nauvoo- Legion" Never since the origin of the sect had the outlook for their future pros penty been so encouraging, so promising. Already the number of the faithful con centrated around Nauvoo was estimated at 15,000 souls. The work of the mission aries in the other States and Europe was most successful; the county of Hancock was soon clothed in the beautiful green of pastures, gardens and farms Everything was indicating brilliant future. But after awhile that which had caused trou. ble in Ohio and Missouri began to show itself. Interests of ''Saints" and Gentiles began to clash; the evident intention of the former to create State within State gave rise to ss:rio,as reflections and when Smith made known and issued his reye- lation of July 18th, 1943, which made polygamy a dogma of the church, after he and his adherents had already to the great scandal of the believers put it extensively into Eraetiae, thsn open losti- lities become soon ripe. Towards the end of l843 the first serious difficulties occur red which in June of the following year led to those tumultuous uprisings that cost the prophet his life and sent the community of the Saints" once more up oA tha rGad tqWaTds"the land Of pron,ise" The immediate eahse of the catastrophe was unquestionably Joseph Smiths aggressive conduct against one Dr. R. D. Foster. This man had formerly been member of Smiths church, had become an apostate wherefore Smith in his ca pacity of prophet, had communicated Foster who, iI his Aegspapef isage at Nauvoo, accused his persecution of several crimes. Smith being mayor of the city ordered then the demolition of Fosters printing presses. The latter now asked for and obtained an order for the arrest of Smith, his brother Hyrum and other Mormons who had taken nat in the des. truction of Foster printing office; this order was granted by the authorities of the county having their seat at Carthage. The officer who took the order of arrest to Nauyoo was summarily expelled from the taWp hy the Norman eity -laaahal. The county, in order to enforce obedience to the mandates of it's officers, now ap- piled to governor Ford who answered their petition by ordering out the State militia, whereupon the Mormons fortified their city; Smith at the head of his Nau- voo-Legion declaring, that he would de fend 1t to the last extreme. In the mean tune the population of Illinois, seeing their county and State a4thorltiAs deied by sect that bad made itself gradually more and more obnoxious by their social anomalies, had become quite excited and as the prospects for an armed issue began looming up, large numbers of the former enemies of the Mormons began to arrive from Missouri ill order to take hand in the crusade against the obnoxious
 iSaiHts,f Ihe sXeltemeat neeaaae indeed so gEeat that frequent threats were made towards storming Nauvoo or levehng it to tiIo RIOuHu anu oAteTInlQdtluB US ln- habitants from the face of the earth This induced the governor of Illinois to take
 cemna4.d pt Ei4e mlLtla ln kstsoa. In order .tb avoid a conflict which in view of
 the existing bitter feelings on both sides could not be but most bloody, he demand
 ed of J. Smith to give himself up to-
 gether with his co-accused in order to re- ceive E rsgH!!ar trial Hs Rroniised them
 his pefs6nal iRfofection aeaiast all violence
 to which they might be exposed. After some deliheration and in viaw of the con
 tinually increasing hostile feelings of the
 masses the prophet concluded to accept
 the governors conditions. He, his brother
 Hyrum and two other prominent Nor
 mons Wsre piaeed on J4ne Bath, into the
 ptishn atCarthage and here, notwithstand
 ing the guarantee for their personal safety
 given by the governor, they were attacked
 during the following evening by a band
 of masked men who shot Joseph Smith
 and his brother to death, This baptism
 9f blGGd of the lew ChEreh however did
 ih nc wise have the effect to abate the
 bitter feelings of their adyersaries The
 people of Illinois were resolved that they
 should go and the war against the Saints
 developed itself to such degree that
 Brigham Young, whQ had assumed the
 eEthQrlties vested m tue defunet Smith
 baeahe quickly aware of the necessity o a new exodus. This exceptional mar