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Carthage is a city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States.The population was 2,605 as of the 2010 Census, down from 2,725 in 2000.It is the county seat of Hancock County.Carthage is most famous for being the site of the death of Joseph Smith in 1844.
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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)
Did Joseph Smith Use A Gun At Carthage Jail?
Did Joseph Smith use a gun at Carthage Jail? Yes, he did—in defense of his brethren. This incredibly researched painting by Andrew Knaupp shows the courage demonstrated by the Prophet during the final moments of life. The name of this painting is Defending His Brethren: A Promise Kept.
FROM THE ARTIST:
Willard Richards, the Secretary to the Prophet and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, related what happened after Hyrum was shot: Joseph opened the door two or three inches with his left hand, discharged one barrel of a six shooter (pistol) at random in the entry . . . Joseph continued snapping his revolver round the casing of the door into the space as before, three barrels of which missed fire. While Mr. Taylor with a walking stick stood by his side and knocked down the bayonets and muskets which were constantly discharging through the doorway.
John Taylor says this: He, however, instantly arose, and with a firm, quick step, and a determined expression of countenance, approached the door, and pulling the six-shooter left by Brother Wheelock from his pocket, opened the door slightly, and snapped the pistol six successive times. Only three of the barrels, however, were discharged.
Some have argued against the idea that Joseph Smith died as a martyr because he used a gun in the last moments of his life. Part of my motivation for this was to show why he had the gun, what he was doing with the gun, and to show that we don't have to be afraid or ashamed that he fought back.
He was a man of peace but when needed he would defend the innocent. He had seen his brother, Hyrum, just shot and killed by this mob. He sees these men, they're swearing oaths, they're saying they're going to kill him, they're going to kill everybody in the room. He had sworn to defend his brethren with his life and that was exactly what he was going to do. And I wanted to show this.
It wasn't like, you know, some kind of Western draw or somebody's well-armed, it was a small gun, it had been smuggled in and Joseph had said, you know, I hat to see such things used but we may have to defend ourselves.
He had hoped that the state would protect him until he could have a trial but the Governor had broken his promise, he had left Carthage, they had heard from Dan Jones that the jailor had said: We've gone through too much trouble to let old Joe Smith ever leave alive.
And they could see out the window, the mobbers, circling around like wolves. This is not execution by the State after a trial, this is a group of men taking law into their own hands and when those who are charged to protect you—the guards at the jail were supposed to keep these men out—are in on the plot, I think you can stand and defend yourself, which is what they were doing. I wanted to show the Prophet was willing to defend, to the last breath, the freedoms of others.
In 1842, Joseph said:When my enemies take away my rights I will bear it and keep out of the way; but if they take away your rights, I will fight for you.
He also said: If I do not stand with those who will stand by me in the hour of trouble and danger, without faltering, I give you leave to shoot me.
In a sermon in 1841, he said What greater love hath any man than that he lay down his life for his friend? Then why not fight for our friend until we die?
This painting shows that Joseph Smith was not afraid. He was not a coward. And, honestly, the safest place in this room is the corner where Willard Richards is shown in this painting. That's the farthest angle from those guns. If you're gonna have to tilt those guns, the farthest angle is going to be that corner.
If Joseph was afraid, and a coward, he would have been in that corner, but he wasn't. This, this is death. He knows death is here. His brother has just been killed. He knows what's coming through this door.
Some would say that you could tell something about a person b how they respond to death, to the threat of death, to the threat of personal harm to themselves. And here we see, Joseph responding. Did he run to the corner while John Taylor and Willard Richards were at the door? No. He was right there at the door, at the mouth of these guns. It tells you that he was willing to look death in the face and not be afraid.
Why was Joseph Smith killed?
Joseph Smith was killed by a mob at Carthage Jail in Illinois on June 27, 1844. In this episode, Dave explores some of the reasons why it happened. The nearby Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo were a threat in both political and theological ways. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the suppression of a new Nauvoo newspaper that was critical of the Saints and Joseph Smith. The destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor was the spark that set off a ticking time bomb. Here’s what happened, and how it led to Joseph’s incarceration on that fateful June day.
More info on this subject from our website:
June 7, 1844 Nauvoo Expositor text:
June 10 Nauvoo City Council Mtg minutes: (also see June 8 mtg notes)
June 12 Warsaw Signal reaction to Nauvoo Expositor destruction:
June 22 letters from Joseph Smith to Governor Thomas Ford: /
June 24 letter from Joseph Smith to Governor Thomas Ford:
From the Church’s website:
Events leading up to Joseph’s arrest, from History of the Church Vol. 6:
Lengthy article detailing Carthage events:
I also HIGHLY recommend Richard Bushman’s commentary on these events in his biography of Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling.
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NOTES:
From anthropologist Manu Padro: “Abolitionists and anti-abolitionists destroyed each other’s printing presses fairly regularly without legal consequences during this time period. They certainly weren’t murdered for it. For example, in 1837 in Alton, Illinois, a printing press was destroyed by a mob, and its owner, the famous abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy, was murdered. Out of the mob that murdered him, only one man stood trial, he was acquitted and no one was ever convicted for destroying the printing press or murdering its owner. In the state of Illinois you could destroy a printing press and reasonably expect to not be punished for it.
“A not-so-well known unsavory fact about Abraham Lincoln (the Senator of Illinois turned President) is that he systematically endorsed the destruction of printing presses in the North that were sympathetic to the Southern cause. He did this because they were disturbing the peace (and threatening his war effort.) Joseph Smith did nothing as the mayor of Nauvoo that Lincoln wouldn’t repeat many, many times over as President of the United States.
“Additionally, this was not Joseph Smith’s first rodeo with destruction of a printing press. In 1833, W. Phelps’s LDS printing press in Independence, Missouri was destroyed by non-Mormon vigilantes to prevent him from printing The Book of Commandments (the precursor for The Doctrine & Covenants.) No one ever stood trial for destroying this printing press. No one was murdered for it. I’m sure that when Joseph ordered the destruction of William Law’s Nauvoo Expositor he expected the same legal procedures that the Missourians had received: None at all.”
*How did Willard Richards and John Taylor end up at Carthage with Joseph and Hyrum? According to BYU Research Center’s biography of Willard Richards, he “was voluntarily imprisoned in Carthage Jail with Joseph, Hyrum, and John Taylor ( ). How did John end up there? According to Life of John Taylor by B. H. Roberts and Jasen Hanson, “The Prophet had suddenly changed his mind and had determined on going to Carthage to give himself up; and he wished Elder Taylor to accompany him. “I must confess that I felt a good deal disappointed at the news,” says Elder Taylor, “but I immediately made preparations to go” ( )
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Anti-Mormon Triangle: Carthage, Nauvoo, Warsaw (Part 1 of 7)
Carthage, Nauvoo, and Warsaw, Illinois form a bit of an Anti-Mormon Triangle. Most Mormons know about the first 2 cities, but what do you know about the third? In our next conversation, we’ll get acquainted with both Brian Stutzman and Warsaw, Illinois, once a hotbed of anti-Mormon sentiment. Brian is the first person to write a history of Warsaw, and we’ll learn more about the dynamics that led to people of that city to storm the Carthage Jail and kill Joseph Smith, Jr. Check out our conversation….
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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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The Shocking Story of what really happened to Joseph Smith and how the Church of Later Day Saints was formed.
Near the end of his life, Smith seemed to style himself in the
role of a dictator over his small kingdom. Aside from being sealed polygynously to over
twenty Mormon women during the last three years of his life, he also ran for the United States
presidency, destroyed the printing press and business of a group of Mormon dissenters, and by
mid-June of 1844, declared martial law in Nauvoo. For this (and other real or imagined
offences), Smith and his brother Hyrum were arrested. Although they first fled across the
Mississippi River, they both returned three days later and surrendered at Carthage, Illinois.
Two days after their arrest, in jail and under the protection of state marshals, Joseph and
Hyrum Smith were shot to death by a mob
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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.
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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.
Old home movie of Joseph Smith and general authorities in New York Jail.
Two People In Carthage In Custody After Carthage Police Find Child Dead
Carthage, MISSOURI--
Two people are in custody after police Officers find a child dead in Carthage.
Carthage police Officers responded to a call at 8:00 this morning at the 1900 block of Missouri about a small child that was unresponsive. When Officers arrived, the child was dead.
Officers arrested 20 year old Tearra Olson and 26 year old Albert O'Connor. Olson is being charged with felony child abuse and O'Connor is being charged with misdemeanor child endangerment in the 2nd degree.
The gender and age of the child had not been released.
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