Settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois
In 1839 Joseph Smith escaped custody in Missouri and made his way to Quincy, Illinois. From Quincy, he and the Latter-day Saints made ambitious plans for a new settlement of what was then called Commerce.
Why do Mormons LOVE Nauvoo, Illinois??
The population of Nauvoo, Illinois is just over 1,000. So why are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (otherwise known as Mormons) so aware of and slightly obsessed with Nauvoo?
Nauvoo is an important part of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ. Shortly after the Church was organized, persecutions against the Church were rampant. Latter-day Saints (members of the Church) were forced out of their homes and ended up settling in Nauvoo. Nauvoo is where many important revelations occurred during the time of continued persecution. Eventually the saints were forced to flee once again and ended up settling in the western United States (with the Church headquartered in what is now Salt Lake City Utah).
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Mormon Pioneer Trail Way Point - Garden Grove, Iowa
After years of persecution and the martyrdom of their founder, Joseph Smith, the members of the Church of Christ, now known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were forced to leave their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, in search of peace and freedom.
Under the direction of Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, the saints (members) of the Church travelled 1,300 miles to what is now Salt Lake City.
This migration of 70,000 people was not an easy one, and here, in Garden Grove, Iowa, 144 miles into the journey from Nauvoo, a lead party set up the first way point (temporary settlement) for those in need of rest or aid.
Fun Fact - Due to their strong missionary work, there are more members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints outside of the United States than there are within.
MORMON MAFIA: Simply Brighamite, Danite, Cochranite, Strangite Liars!
Utah Mormon Church is simply a criminal syndicate posing as a religion. Same can be said about the Jesuits, Quakers, Puritans, the Calvinist, The Methodists, Jacobites, Jacobeans, the Danites, and the German Queen of England who hails from the house of Dan and does not have a drop of royal blood.
With only a few million Mormons world wide, it is statistically impossible for a Mormon to have been involved in every terrorist attack worldwide since Joseph Smith Jr. and Abraham Lincoln.
Falling astronomically outside the standard deviation for chance, the Mormon Involvement in every terrorist act since the death of Joseph Smith Jr. is by design. Utah Mormonism is simply a criminal syndicate which not only murders, but steals all the wealth of good faithful Mormons.
Scowcroft's shady past indicates he was born in Ogden Utah. This appears doubtful, but notwithstanding, Ogden is the home of Union Pacific and ancestors of Averell Harriman who financed Hitler, Stalin and actually ruled the Soviet Union when Stalin was mentally incapacitated Evidence suggests the sons of Weber County and Ogden were directly responsible for genociding the Russian People.
So I ask you, does anything good come out of Ogden and Weber State College? Now it looks as though these Sabbatean's are involved in asset stripping the Mormon Church of its wealth extracted from the faithful in literally ponzi Scheme after ponzi scheme.
For once in history, the good people of the human race should put an end of the tyranny of these strange genetic anomalies, the remnant of the Noah race attempting, in vain, to restore ZION....the remnant the Bible states should be destroyed, or at least sent out to Gitmo!
Freemasons - Mormons - Transhumanist Connection
Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum became members of the newly-formed Nauvoo lodge. It appears that John C. Bennett had a particularly strong influence in the spread of Freemasonry among the Mormons, and soon over 1,500 Mormon men in the city of Nauvoo were practicing Masons.
Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow all were members of the fraternity. All joined while living with the Saints in Nauvoo.
Abraham Jonas, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois wrote on October 15, 1841 to authorize for the creation of a Masonic Lodge at Nauvoo and appointed George Miller, Esq. to be the first Master. Appointed first Junior Mason was Lucius N. Scovil and John D. Parker was appointed first Senior Mason.
The Nauvoo Masonic Lodge was founded shortly thereafter. In December 1841, the lodge leadership met to write its by-laws. Lucius N. Scovil, Samuel Rolfe, and Aaron Johnson formed the Building committee of the Masonic Temple in the City of Nauvoo Hancock County Illinois North America William Weeks was the principle architect.
At the time of the laying of the cornerstone of the lodge, Joseph was in hiding as is apparent from this interesting note on the first page of the extant minutes, The Governor of Missouri has again demanded Joseph Smith, and a writ has been issued by Gov. Ford to have him taken in consequence of which he is absent from the laying of this cornerstone.
The Nauvoo Lodge would be primarily attended by those of the Mormon religious persuasion. For a time Masonic rites helped shape the direction of Joseph Smith's theology and some scholars note the similarity between the Mormon temple endowment ceremony and Masonic rites. At its height, there were 1,500 Mormons involved in Freemasonry in Illinois.
Salt Lake Temple
The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. At 253,015 square feet, it is the largest LDS temple by floor area.
What is the Mormon Transhumanist Association?
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Mormon History: Nauvoo - LDS
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When members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) were driven out of Missouri and Kirtland they traveled to Illinois where the settled in Commerce, renamed Nauvoo by the Mormons. They drained the swamps and established a beautiful city which swelled to a population of 20,000 by 1846.
While in Nauvoo, hundreds of Mormon missionaries were sent on missions to the United States, England, and the Pacific Isles. Many thousands who joined the Church traveled to unite themselves with the Saints in Nauvoo.
Only 15 months after founding Nauvoo Joseph Smith announced that it was time to erect a house of prayer, a house of order, a house for the worship of our God, where the ordinances can be attended to agreeable to His divine will. Men donated each tenth day to work on the Mormon temple. Members sacrificed personal belongings to fund the project.
For six years members of the Mormon Church lived in relative peace, secure in the fact that a prophet walked and labored among them. But as Mormon history repeats itself this peace was short-lived as Nauvoo was seen as a political and economic threat by neighboring communities. Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, and other Church leaders were jailed in Carthage Jail.
On 27 June 1844 a mob stormed the jail and Joseph Smith and Hyrum were killed. Thousands of Saints lined the street to mourn the loss of their prophet.
Illinois Governor Thomas Ford wrote of the martyrdom: The murder of the Smiths, instead of putting an end to ... the Mormons and dispersing them, as many believed it would, only bound them together closer than ever, gave them new confidence in their faith.
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Murder of the Prophet Joseph Smith at the Carthage Jail.
Hated by jealous and misunderstanding people Joseph Smith,the founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints was hounded and hunted down from his home state of New York across the Great Plains to Nauvoo,Illinois. This despite he had committed no crime. He met his end here at the Carthage Jail in Carthage, Illinois bravely singing psalms and worshipping his creator as have all the brave martyrs before and since. Please share these few brief moments with Joseph and be thankful for your freedoms you have for which men and women have sacrificed their very lives. Special respect and eternal remembrance for the volunteers who run these sites and keep this vital link of Americana open for public education and enjoyment! (Amen)
Brigham Young Grave + Homes
Mormon Prophet grave and homes are located in Salt Lake City, Utah!
Historic Nauvoo
A brief introduction to Historic Nauvoo. The beautiful location of navuoo is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States, on the Mississippi River near Fort Madison, Iowa.
SEXUAL CHAOS IN MORMON NAUVOO. UTAH BRIGHAMITE-COCHRANITE CONCEPT OF CELESTIAL SEX
John D. Lee in his autobiography states that early Mormon Polygamy included sex with the participation of multiple wives at the same time. . This is also reflected in the FLDS polygamy ritual where the older wives assist in the sexual initiation of the young wives documented ny recordings of the sexual ritual and admitted into evidence at trial.
Winter Quarters (1979)
The establishing of Winter Quarters and the hardships that came to the Saints who were forced to leave Nauvoo are reviewed, along with the eventual purpose of Winter Quarters for those who followed the first companies in the pioneer trek.
Directly behind the The Great Salt Lake Temple Utah at Night
The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. At 253,015 square feet (23,505.9 m2), it is the largest LDS temple by floor area. Dedicated in 1893, it is the sixth temple completed by the church, requiring 40 years to complete, and the fourth temple built since the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846. All-Seeing Eye – The center tower on each side contains a depiction of the All-Seeing Eye of God representing how God sees all things.[20]:147[1]
Angel Statue – The golden Angel Moroni placed on the capstone of the temple symbolizes the angel mentioned in Revelation 14:6 that will come to welcome in the Second Coming of Christ. Early architectural plans showed two horizontally flying angels[21][22][23] and the earliest references to the Salt Lake Temple's angel were always Gabriel. The original blueprint drawings intended the angel to be wearing temple ceremonial clothing like the angel on the Nauvoo temple, but W.H. Mullin's 12.5-foot statue wears a crown instead of a temple cap that was originally built with a bright light creating a halo effect at night.[24]
Beehive – The beehive symbol (which appears on the Utah state seal) appears on external doors and doorknobs and symbolizes the thrift, industry, perseverance, and order of the Mormon people.[25][18]:44
Big Dipper – On the west side of the temple the Big Dipper appears, which represents how the priesthood can help people find their way to heaven as the constellation helped travelers find the North Star.[26][18]:42 The uppermost stars on the temple's constellation align with the actual North Star.[27]
Compass and Square – Early plan drawings of the temple show the Masonic arrangements of a compass and square placed along the second and fourth floor windows,[18]:43 but the plans were changed during construction.[18]:39 These symbols had appeared on the Nauvoo Temple weathervane.[18]:43
Clasped Hands – Above each external door and doorknob appears the hand clasp, which is a representation of covenants that are made within temples or brotherly love.[18]:43
Clouds – On the east side of the temple are clouds raining down representing the way God has continued revelation and still speaks to man like the rains out of Heaven[1] or alternatively a veil of ignorance or sin.[18]:43
Earths – The earthstones in the lower buttresses have been interpreted as the gospel of Christ spreading over the whole Earth.[18]:42
Saturns – Early drawings and a written description by Angell showed Saturnstones along the top tier of the temple,[28]:146[29] though the design was changed years later.[30]:60-62[31]:9
Spires – The six spires of the temple represent the power of the priesthood. The three spires on the east side are a little higher than those on the west: they represent the Melchizedek, or higher priesthood, and the Aaronic, or preparatory priesthood respectively. The three spires on the east side represent the church's First Presidency and the twelve smaller spires on those three represent the Twelve Apostles.[32]
Sun, Moon, and Stars – Around the temple there are several carved stones depicting the sun, moon, and stars which correspond respectively to the celestial, terrestrial, and telestial kingdoms of glory in the afterlife.[33][18]:42 The sunstones have also been interpreted to represent God, the moonstones in different phases as representing different phases of life, and the starstones representing Jesus Christ.[1] These symbols were drawn from the three lesser lights symbols in the Freemasonry practiced by many early church leaders in Nauvoo.[34] Additionally, five-pointed stars have traditionally represented the five wounds of Christ (hands, feet, and side) and the five-pointed star with an elongated downward ray found on several LDS temples has been interpreted to represent Christ coming to Earth.[
Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo
Video version of the Gospel Topic Essay on Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo.
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Mormon Temple in Redlands California
Brigham Young's territorial ambitions suffered a blow in 1851, when Congress rejected the State of Deseret's claim to the Southern California coast, creating instead a smaller Territory of Utah.
But Young, who served as both Mormon church president and Utah territorial governor, did not let go of his California dream.
In March 1851, 437 Latter-day Saints set out from Great Salt Lake City to establish a foothold in the San Bernardino Valley. Located relatively close to the port at San Pedro and the gentile settlement of Los Angeles, their colony would gather supplies for the Mormon heartland in Utah. It would also gather souls, welcoming converts from the gold fields up north, the Sandwich Isles, and other lands overseas. The importance of the mission was reflected in the choice of its leaders: Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich, two of the Mormon church's twelve apostles.
In the days of covered wagons – and the colonists had 150 of them – the journey was fraught and arduous. Waypoints bore ominous names like Bitter Spring and Impassible Pass. But by the end of 1851, the colonists had traversed the Cajon Pass (where the name of the Mormon Rocks still pays tribute to their passage), purchased Rancho San Bernardino from the Lugo family, and erected Fort San Bernardino, a five-acre village crowded within a 12-foot stockade. Outside they dug irrigation canals, planted crops and vineyards, and cleared a lumber road into the nearby mountains.
Soon the colonists left their fort walls to establish the town of San Bernardino. Surveyor H. G. Sherwood, who also designed the street plan for Salt Lake City, platted out 72 square blocks within a rectilinear grid. Street names recognized the Mormons' westward flight from persecution: Independence Street, Nauvoo Street, Salt Lake Street.The colony thrived. By 1856 San Bernardino's population of nearly 3,000 rivaled that of Los Angeles. It also generated its own political institutions: a county (split off from Los Angeles County in 1853) and municipality (incorporated in 1854). As in Utah, Mormon ecclesiastical leaders filled civil offices, too. Apostle Lyman, for example, served as San Bernardino's first mayor.
Observers from Los Angeles heaped praise upon the colony and the Mormons' renowned capacity for communal action. With the will, they have the power to accomplish whatever they wish, wrote the Los Angeles Star's correspondent in October 1853, for what difficulty is too great to be overcome where a people are all of one mind, and are ready to concentrate all their energies to accomplish whatever appears conducive to their welfare.
Back in Zion, however, Brigham Young greeted San Bernardino's outward signs of success with suspicion, even from the colony's inception. The settlers may have been fulfilling his California dream, but Young watched with dismay as their wagon train -- several times longer than he'd envisioned -- departed the Salt Lake Valley in 1851. The prophet was, his clerk noted, sick at the sight of so many of the Saints running off to California, far from his political and spiritual authority.
Over the next few years, a proliferation of dissidents and outright apostates confirmed Young's fears about the colony. Worse, legal disputes with non-Mormons squatters threatened to escalate into open violence. Their community is surrounded with unscrupulous squatters and dissenters, anxious for an excuse to drive them from the country, observed Army captain E. O. C. Ord in 1856. With the wounds of Jackson County, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, still fresh, church leaders wound down the San Bernardino colony. In 1856 Young reassigned Lyman and Rich to Europe, and in October 1857, as civil war loomed between the federal government and Utah, he recalled the Saints to Zion. Nearly half disobeyed, but those still faithful sold their land, loaded their belongings into wagons, and began their retreat from California.
Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet | James A. Cullimore
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A man who had been in the penitentiary applied to Henry Ford for employment. He had decided to tell Mr. Ford about his past as he applied. He had not been honest on several occasions as he had applied and after he was hired and working, his employer had found out he had been in the penitentiary and let him go. So now as he started to tell about his past, Mr. Ford stopped him and said, “I don’t care about your past; start where you stand.”
Berton Braley put these thoughts to verse:
Start where you stand and never mind the past;
The past won’t help you in beginning new;
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that’s enough, you’ve done with it, you’re through; . . .
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs;
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand;
The future is for him who does and dares;
Start where you stand. . . .
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead;
Start where you stand.
Repentance is one of the greatest principles of the gospel.
There is another important event that is often lost track of in the busy holiday season, or only little is made of it. I refer to the birthday of the Prophet Joseph Smith on December 23. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we recognize Joseph Smith as a prophet of God through whom the Church was restored in this dispensation. No one is more revered by us save Jesus Christ himself. Even though we revere him as our Prophet and the founder of the Church, it is unlikely that we fully comprehend his true greatness. May I share with you a few of the attributes and virtues that made him one of the greatest men ever to live upon the earth.
John Henry Evans wrote of him:
Here is a man who was born in the stark hills of Vermont; who was reared in the backwoods of New York; who never looked inside a college or a high school; who lived in six States, no one of which would own him during his lifetime; who spent months in the vile prisons of the period; who, even when he had his freedom, was hounded like a fugitive; who was covered once with a coat of tar and feathers, and left for dead; who, with his following, was driven by irate neighbors from New York to Ohio, from Ohio to Missouri, and from Missouri to Illinois; and who, at the unripe age of thirty-eight, was shot to death by a mob with painted faces.
Yet this man became mayor of the biggest town in Illinois and the state’s most prominent citizen, the commander of the largest body of trained soldiers in the nation outside the Federal army, the founder of cities and of a university, and aspired to become President of the United States.
He wrote a book which has baffled the literary critics for a hundred years and which is today more widely read than any other volume save the Bible. On the threshold of an organizing age he established the most nearly perfect social mechanism in the modern world, and developed a religious philosophy that challenges anything of the kind in history, for completeness and cohesion. And he set up the machinery for an economic system that would take the brood of Fears out of the heart of man—the fear of want through sickness, old age, unemployment, and poverty.
In thirty nations are men and women who look upon him as a greater leader than Moses and a greater prophet than Isaiah; his disciples now number close to a million; and already a granite shaft pierces the sky over the place where he was born, and another is in course of erection over the place where he received the inspiration for his Book. [John Henry Evans, Joseph Smith, An American Prophet, p. v]
Joseph Smith occupies a unique place among the prophets—his birth and his name, Joseph, were known nearly four thousand years before he came to the earth. Joseph who was sold into Egypt said of the great latter-day prophet:
“Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith the lord unto me; a choice seer will I raise up. . . .
“. . . Behold; that seer will the Lord bless. . . .
-James A. Culllimore
San Antonio West Stake Pioneer Days
On July 24, 1846 Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers entered into the Salt Lake Valley, where the Latter- Day Saints settled after being forced from Nauvoo, Illinois, and other locations in the eastern United States.
Utah has made this official holiday calling it Pioneer day, which is considered a special occasion by many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church). On Pioneer Day some Latter-Day Saints walk portions of the Mormon Trail or reenact entering the Salt Lake Valley by handcart. Latter-Day Saints throughout the United States and around the world may celebrate July 24 in remembrance of the LDS Church's pioneer era, with songs, dances, potluck, games, crafts, and pioneer related activities.
July 24, 2017 the San Antonio West Stake celebrated pioneer day starting off with a marathon, breakfast, pioneer games, and back to basic home cooking like making bread, butter, honey and growing your own garden.
In this video is some of the fun the San Antonio Stake had on our pioneer day. Enjoy!
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Retracing the Route of History
Eight wagons formed the Wagon Train that traveled along Pioneer Trail Road in Carson, IA to the Iowa School for the Deaf.
Orson Pratt - Relationship with Brigham Young
David Whittaker talks about Orson Pratt's relationship with Brigham Young.
David Whittaker, PhD, is curator of Western and Mormon manuscripts for Brigham Young University.
This video comes from extra interview footage that was unused in the production of the DVD, Five Pratt Brothers: Builders of Zion. For more information about the DVD or to purchase a copy, visit
The five Pratt brothers were major players in some of the most significant events of the Nineteenth Century in America. They played a major role in the greatest religious movement in American history. They were close friends of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, of whom there has probably been more written than of any other American religious leader.
They were driven from their homes several times in the greatest religious persecution ever known in this country.
They crossed the Great Plains as part of one of the greatest migrations of our time. They made a significant contribution by building the Western part of this country from nothing but sagebrush to large, successful cities. They founded several communities from Ohio to California.
They were philosophers, explorers, missionaries, Apostles, astronomers, mathematicians, travelers, writers, soldiers, pioneers and martyrs.
Generations before these brothers were born, their Pratt ancestors were making history with their religious beliefs. They were among the first Puritans in England. Driven by persecution, they traveled to America seeking freedom to think and believe as their conscience dictated.
With more than one thousand pictures, their fascinating stories are told by scholars and others who are familiar with their lives. The brothers also tell their story in their own words, through journals, autobiographies and letters.
The production team filmed in the places where the brothers lived, such as Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Illinois. They followed them across Iowa, to Winter Quarters and from Winter Quarters to the salt Lake Valley. They also filmed in Arkansas, where one of the brothers was martyred.
No thorough study of American religious history, or of the development of the American West would be complete without a knowledge of the lives and contributions of the Pratt brothers. Their story will inspire all who learn about their lives.
American History - Part 082 - Buchanan - Gold, Railroads, Mormons and Mayhem
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION-- American history in VOA Special English.
The problem of slavery continued to divide the North and South. Northerners warned that slavery could spread no farther. Southerners threatened to leave the Union unless southern rights were protected.
Don't go, warned the New York Tribune, if you have a job or a farm. But if you have neither, it said, and can get fifty dollars, then go to Colorado.
There were many men without jobs or farms in the summer of 1858. The country had suffered a serious economic depression the year before, and jobs were difficult to find. Thousands left cities in the east.
The thousands who rushed to Colorado soon found that there was not as much gold as expected. The valuable metal became harder to find. No longer could it be washed from the bottoms of mountain streams. Men had to dig into the mountains of rock to get it. Huge digging machines and crushers were needed to get the gold from the rock. These machines were expensive. Few men had enough money to buy them.
Some of the miners organized companies. They borrowed money from eastern banks or sold shares of their companies. In a few years, almost all of the gold from Colorado came from the mining companies.
Many of those who went west to search for gold stayed to become farmers or storekeepers. Others moved farther west to find gold in Nevada or California. Some cleared the ground of trees and cut them into wood for houses. Such timber from the forests of Oregon and Washington was sold in California and Mexico, even in China and Hawaii.
A few men recognized the need for transportation across the nation. Engineers planned four railroads. But northern and southern leaders could not agree on which one to build first. Until a railroad could be built, supplies were carried west in wagons pulled by horses or oxen.
Three men -- Russell, Majors, and Waddell -- formed a transportation company in 1855 to carry government supplies to soldiers in the West. They started with five hundred wagons. Three years later, the company had three thousand five hundred wagons and forty thousand oxen.
The federal government decided to send mail overland two times a week to California. It gave the job of carrying the letters to a new company -- the Overland Mail Company.
The mail was carried by train or boat to St. Louis. Then it was put on overland company stage coaches -- light wagons pulled by four or six horses. The company was told to take the mail along a four-thousand-kilometer southern route through Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The mail arrived in Los Angeles twenty-four days after it left St. Louis.
The shortest distance between Missouri and California was across the central part of the country. The Russell, Majors and Waddell Company decided to show that this central route could be used all year. It began a speedy mail service called the Pony Express.
As communications and transportation improved, the government was able to increase its control over the West. But closer ties were not welcomed between the government and a religious group known as the Mormons.
The Mormon religion was started by a young New England man named Joseph Smith. In 1823, at the age of 18, Smith claimed that an Angel told him of a golden book. He said the book contained God's words to the ancient people of America. Smith said he was able to read the strange writing in this book and put it into English. He called this work the Book of Mormon.
The Mormons seemed finally to have found a home in Illinois. They built their own town and called it Nauvoo. They governed themselves and had their own defense force. The Mormons did so well that Nauvoo became the fastest-growing city in Illinois.
Then some members of the group split apart, because of a new message Smith claimed to have received from God. Smith said God gave permission for Mormons to have more than one wife. This was polygamy. And it was opposed by almost all people.
Some of the Mormons who left the church published a newspaper criticizing Smith and the other Mormon leaders. Followers ordered by Smith destroyed the newspaper's publishing equipment. This caused non-Mormons to demonstrate and demand that Smith be punished. Smith was arrested and put in jail in Carthage, Illinois. His brother also was arrested. An angry mob attacked the jail and shot both Smith and his brother to death.
The governor of Illinois ordered the Mormons to leave his state. He said only this would prevent further violence. There was no choice. They had to leave.
The Mormons had a new Brigham Young. Young decided to take his people west and find a new home for them. He wanted a place where they would be safe -- where no one could interfere with their religion.
Mormonism and slavery | Wikipedia audio article
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Mormonism and slavery
00:01:14 1 Teachings on slavery
00:01:59 1.1 Curse of Cain and Ham
00:06:03 1.2 Legality of slavery
00:10:18 1.3 Relationship between master and slave
00:12:13 2 In early Mormonism
00:14:23 3 In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
00:15:09 3.1 Slavery during westward migration
00:16:08 3.2 Ambiguous Period (1847–1852)
00:17:38 3.2.1 In San Bernardino (1851–1856)
00:18:31 3.2.2 Indian slave trade
00:21:06 3.3 Legal period (1852–1862)
00:26:56 3.4 Emancipation (1862–present)
00:28:03 3.5 Evaluations by historians
00:31:28 4 In the Community of Christ
00:32:18 5 In the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
00:34:12 6 See also
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The Latter Day Saint movement has had varying and conflicting teachings on slavery. Early converts were initially from the Northern United States and opposed slavery, believing they were supported by Mormon scripture. After the church base moved to the slave state of Missouri and gained Southern converts, church leaders began justifying slavery. New scriptures were revealed teaching against interfering with the slaves of others. A few slave owners joined the church, and took their slaves with them to Nauvoo, Illinois, although Illinois was a free state.After Joseph Smith's death, the church split. The largest contingent followed Brigham Young, who supported slavery but opposed abuse, and became The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). A smaller contingent followed Joseph Smith III, who opposed slavery, and became the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS). Young led his followers to Utah, where he led the efforts to legalize slavery in the Utah Territory. Brigham Young taught that slavery was ordained of God and taught that the Republican Party's efforts to abolish slavery went against the decrees of God and would eventually fail. He also encouraged members to participate in the Indian slave trade.