Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-16

| WAS illilNlk tllAeAFNltl Al INftNiAlN Wv
editorial under the caption 'ltetrlbu
alun" in your issue of the 9Th Inst. II
which VOW refer to- the fate OF severa
S1obocratg who IN times past llftet
their puny arms against the cause o.
right to rersecute and slay the inno
cent
We are making some EFFORTS at the
Historians Office to gather Information
concerning the fate OF mobbers who
have prosecuted the LsLtter-day Saints
and when we are through with oul
compilation. ! think we shall have on'
of the most interesting chapters o.
church history ever written, sad as II
may he.
In an old document lying before me
this morning 1 find a statement COM
corning the fate % some Of those VINO
tarred and feathered the Prophet Jo-
seph Smith, ia Hiram, Portage county
Ohio, March -. 1892. The notorious
Caruot Mason. who during. the mob
bling ON that occasion pulled joseph
brtltal1y out OF bed by the hair ana
proposed other cIuelties to the prophet,
while IN the hands OF the mob, was
soon afterwards attacked with Il spinal
comnlnIl1t of which he dieG AFTER severe
suffering. Mr.. Hamilton, another
rnobbel who carried Joseph on the Same
occasion, WIS buried alive by Inc cav
ing In of a we'll Warren Waste an
atbar participant III the cruel attack
upon the prophet, who was Known as
fhe strongest man In tl1e western
Reserve was killed by The falling OF a
log, at ,ihe raising OF log house
Miles n. Norton, conspicuous MOP,
ocrat, who furnished poison 10 XII
Father John Iohnson's tavorlte Watcn
dog preparatory 10 the attack on
Joseph, was killed soon afterwards by
ram which. In attempting to rum
mast him, thrust his horn IN hls bowels.
which produced inhD mnasion and
caused death. A Mr. Fuller another
. conspicuous n1obocrat on the same ccA
casion, died OF cholera John Ifal-
merchant In Hiram. IN affluent circum-
stances AT the time OF me monolng
said. when II was proposed TO steal
feather pillow from JOseph's bed, that
he always had money 10 buy tea tnets
10 feather such men as Joseph srniths
this man y.s soon reduced TO poverty,
In tssS the writer. accom- enlea
nv Two other brethren. visited the
,y.sfe places of Zion in Missouri and
Illinois. and learned from old settlers
ibe fate OF a number of the mobocrats,
who so eruelIy prosecuted the saints
in early days in these STATES III
jackson county, Missouri, an old gen.
tleman (Nr. &ason) who himself had
helped TO drive the Morinons ont OF
4het county In 1888 told US that Col.
THOMAS Pitcher died about a year pre-
,,ir,,s ~, n,,,. ,,fsif as "A uauper, and that
sN not only died poor. but during his
last DAYS lie was Stunned ard deserted
by ALT, even his nwu children neglect
ed to care for him. 1t Went 80 rar
that some of the nelghboTs proposed
:" ME- nm "a subscription In order to
10 esiNe sp . r,r,,,,. 70 hire a negro
iiise Ino., 49,, "a ,yoit on him till he
lIieA his disease being of u low ana
loathsome nature, but before the ne
Ero came ME Fl,rnel y, $500, ~"
IN the midst OF il,Ia anu Y,strr,, votli -.
All rcNosIs VI o,,,.l..N,, pstnbar ,-hn
member Col li'o.''.,e sa,ss,. ~ isw
treacherorsly. under tne coyea VA 49, w.,
disarmed the prelhIst W" ..'' o,'.as
Were endeavo11ng 10 detena tneinse'Nss
and their rights ana Who 49, n
had done this, and the brethren nao
thus become defehseless' peslh ILL.,
the mob TO fall upon them ana nrlse
them out Of the country CO... fltsher
MAS once a wealthy man. but during
Inc late civil war. his property was
burned by the enemy, and he was
consequently reduced 10 poverty. 1
may add IN this connection that during
the civil war, referred to- nearly ev-
cry house on both sides OF the BIC
1sti,e tthe very section OF country
,cJ,Sre about POO houses belonging 10 the
s.iyts We're burned in the beginning
~ 1Ss4lwere DESTROYED, during the
..,,a,rsIls and bushwacker's campaign Of
Ses,nr in the time of the Civil war
NJ N,as a war between neighbors and
ns,ighhorhoods and the whole section Of
,,e,,,,s,S, yeas laid waste so Mr.. Mason
,,ssnr,ns,d ne Ms own house being
h,,r,ed Win the rest.
ia the Iatter-day Saints who believe
an tha nrnnhetic calling of Joseph
e,r,xtr 4. IT, we'll known that all this
HamnryeS in fuInlfnent of predictions
, ,sap NJ MIN
IN ans,vsra ia onr further enquiry.
NJ AIason also lola ms that Moses Wil-
~, - IA ,,,l,ncra liz e.t,nerai motor
ss,.s, ~ ,n,,,, ss s,,ch In the Missouri
,,'',..;f,, n,,, died many Years ago in
.I,a.ne .s "a sir,lnlsard rambler and gen
sAhS 80 ", disrjsed ~ ali who
s S,ms nits,
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