Show history eis els HIS TO lly liy OF JOSEPH syll SMITH TH JULY 1844 elders B youn young and 0 pratt went from boston to lowell elders kimball wight and william smith proceed proceeded dd by railway from new york to philadelphia the neighbor has the following notice t THE ino rno PROPHET ruET A well disposed newspaper called the prophet was started in new york in the mon month th of may last the ruptures of our neighbors and imd tle the murder of our best beat friends have prevented us from giving our readers read et notice it Is published by a society for the promotion of truth and we must say that in a city eo 80 large as new york if the people have virtue holiness and the kindred kindrea spirits which have ever won the affections of humanity the they will sustain the prophet liberally nor shouted should the country be less magnanimous by com comparing aring opinions and proving contrarieties truth manifests itself 51 jy ve we copy from the st louis evening gazette PUBLIC OPINION ale OJE tb the press on the assassination of joseph hoseph and hyrum smith by a mob in the jail at carthage while A hiie hile under the sacred pledge of the state for the protection of their lives with reference to the recent bloody affair at carthage the 0 S democrat says from all the facts now before us we regard these homicides as nothing else than murder in cold blood murder a against il ainest the plighted faith of the chief chiet mag magistrate isira it e of illinois murder of a character so atrocious and BO so unjustifiable as to leave the blackest stain on all its perpetrators their alders abettors abet tors and defenders I 1 the re republican publican pronounces the deed unprovoked murder ibur thur der 1 the reporter says the conduct of the mob at carthage cannot be justified the reveille says joe smith has been lynched ed while u under the protection of the laws the rhe new era says it was cruel and cowardly t to murder arder the unarmed prisoners when they y cad had a om surrendered themselves and were in c custody t y of the laws in fact tact the press of st louis denounces this bloody deed without a dissenting voice from tle the lee county iowa democrat ccle we also endorse the tile whole of the senti of the st louis presses and say it was a premeditated murder and that the offenders cruet ought to be ferreted out and dealt with accord in gnp r to the strict sense of the law fr froni the illinois state register JOSEPH SMITH Y THE MO MORMON ranion PROPHET A AND D HIS BROTHER HYRUM MURDERED IN PRISON the following particulars of the most disgraceful and cold blooded murder ever con committed anit ted in a christian land is copied from an extra from the office of the quincy herald rumors of the bloody deed reached this city several days ago but were not believed until tuesday evening when there was no fur further trier room left for doubt next week we will have all the particulars every effort ix will alil ill lii be made to bring the assassins to punishment from the quincy herald extra of saturday governor ford arrived in this city this morning much worn down by travel and fatigue having left carthage yesterday it is now certain that only joe and hyrum smith are killed and they were murdered in cold blood it seems beems that hiie hile gov ford was absent from carthage to nauvoo for the purpose of ascertaining satisfactorily the st astren lh of the mormon force an excited mob assembled near carthage disfigured themselves by painting their faces and made a rush upon the jail where joe and his fellow prisoners were confined the guard placed by the governor to protect the jail were overpowered by superior numbers the doors of the jail forced and joe and hyrum both shot hyrum was wats instantly killed by a ball bali hallwhich which passed through his head joe was in the act of raising the window when he was shot both from without and within and fell out of the window to the ground richards whom we supposed yesterday was dead escaped unhurt mr air taylor the editor of the nauvoo neighbor was in the room with the smiths and received three balls in his leg and one in his hia arm he is not considered dangerous three of the assailants were slightly wounded it will probably never be known who shot joseph and hyrum smith but their murder was a cold blooded cowardly act which will colls consign i the perpetrators if discovered to merited inerio ed in infamy and disgrace they have broken their pl pledges alny abny es to the governor disgraced themselves and the state to which they belong they hare have crimsoned crim their perfidy with blood the dead bodies of the smiths were conveyed to nauvoo by order of the governor yesterday it was supposed by many that the mor mons on seeing them would break away from all restraints and commence a war of extermination mi but nothing of the kind occurred they received their murdered friends in sorrow laid down their arm arms s and remained quiet col singleton Single tou and his bis company of 60 men are still in nauvoo and the mormons cormons submitted to their authority I 1 the that left our city yesterday on the boreas are at present in warsaw A man was knocked down with a musket in warsaw yesterday esterday for presuming to express disapprobation latford at the murder of the smiths 3 I 1 1 from the sangamon journal THE MORMON difficulties notwithstanding all the rumors which are afloat we are unable to state any thing very I 1 definite in relation to affairs at nauvoo or in the re relon region ion lon round about that city it is i 9 certain that the governor has called out some of the neighboring militia that bodies of armed men had collected without waiting a call from the governor that the governor had accepted the services of militia at st louis under certain contingencies that be he had demanded of smith the state arms at nauvoo that it had bad been reported that the they were given up u that smith and his council bad given themselves ves up to be tried by our laws for alle aile alleged 11 ed of off fences ances thus far our news seems to be certain ru mor maor says baya further that on thursday of last week joe smith hyrum smith and dr richards were shot by a mob at carthage we are incredulous in regard to the truth of this rumor we cannot think under the circumstances cum stances of the case the excitement against these men among the anti mormons cormons gov F ford ord would have received them as prisoners to be tried under our laws had pledged himself for their protection and then placed them in a 2 situation where they would be murdered th the tha rumor is too preposterous for belief we wait i with much anxiety to hear bear the truth on this subject and this feeling is general in this community 11 from the mo republican cc the murders at cartha carthage e A letter from the editor one from G tai tal T M davis esq and a proclamation from gov ford give all the i information which we have hav e been able to collect from the seat of civil commotion and murder in illinois they were issued in an extra form yesterday morning and are transferred to our columns today to day for the benefit of our numerous readers abroad all our information tends to fix upon the people concerned in the death of the smiths the odium of perfidious cowardly murder so wanton as to be without any justification fi so inhuman and treacherous as to find no parallel in savage life under any circumstances cum stances gov ford declares his Intention to reek peek gut put the he murderers and he owes it to his own honor andio that of the state whose faith was most grossly violated never to cease his exertions for this purpose the cormons mormons Mor mons it will be seen were quiet and not disposed to commit any acts of aggression gres sion their enemies on the other hand band were evidently disposed to push them to extremities es and to force them from the state this feeling mav may be checked by the alacrity with which gov fords orders were being ex it will be sometime before peace and order can be restored the disgrace of past acts cannot be wiped out the following extract of a letter from a highly respectable gentleman to his friend in nauvoo we copy from the nauvoo neighbor fair haven ct july 10 1844 I 1 have by the papers within a day or two been lu formed informed of the murder of joseph and hyrum smith sinith this is an event which will be deeply lamented by all mormons cormons Mor mons and will appear probably to those who who aho are not mormons cormons Mor mons as the final overthrow of their religious tenets I 1 will however make the prediction that this thia diabolical butchery makes more cormons mormons than the friendship of half the inhabitants in illinois could have done by their most devoted exertions the blood of saints is the seed of the church it will be considered by an extensive portion of the world that the smiths have suffered martyrdom for their religion and their profoundest sympathies will be aroused in favor of those believing the same creed the inflammatory appeals to the bloodthirsty blood thirsty passions of the anti mormon populace will be universally condemned by the reflecting and moral part of every community and thousands will now examine your tenets who never thought of such a thing before Cart bace base and warsaw will be denounced by the honorable and the indelible disgrace with which they now stand covered will cause them to be avoided by every person who has any regard to his personal safety it i is s now known here that the lazy speculators of warsaw and the still lazier office drones at carthage cared nothing for joe smith personally or for bis his tenets either but the prosperity of nauvoo increasing as it did beyond any former parallel even ip in the western world excited in their bosoms envy hatred and all ungodliness this is the true secret of all their barbarous movements against mormonism and they supposed by destroying the smiths they should extinguish their religion disperse the alor mor mons de populating and nd desolating nauvoo their folly and wickedness will produce a result exactly the reverse cormons mormons will increase an hundred fold they will if possible be more devoutly attached to their religion will concentrate more closely together for self sell preservation reservation and their united industry will pra produce ce such i a city at nauvoo as does doea not exist west of the mountains from all accounts which have been published here it does not appear that the slightest resistance was made to the execution of the law lair and the inquiry is now made what was all this clamor excitement and military parade for the editor of the warsaw signal can answer the question and if be he had bad his lis deserts it is probable no more unprincipled and inflammatory addresses to an infuriated mob would ever ever emanate from his pen not that I 1 would wish any violence to him but lie he should be tried b by y th the e laws of the state and see how far his course renders him accountable for the murders which have been committed nothing has ever given iven me greater gratification than the calm signified dignified submission to the laws shown at nauvoo since the death of the smiths this forbearance on your part is beyond all praise let it continue give not the shadow of a pretext for another appeal to popular fury the demons are foiled and let them gnash their teeth in silence over their disappointment the ii it crease of population opu lation at nauvoo can no more be prevented prevent ithan ethan than the mississippi can be stopped in its course its triumph is inevitable because because the engine by which it is to be accomplished ia is ir what earthly power has ever yet stood before the overpowering energies of a reli rell religious t creed but Bu when religion is protected by law i as your religion ought to be and will soon be in illinois then such advances will be made by the mormons cormons as have never been dreamed of by the greatest enthus enthusiast last the editor of the neighbor adds cc upon this letter let it be remembered that the writer is not a mormon or a western man but a citizen of connecticut loving law liberty and life 1 from the tompkins Tomp kins bins N Y democrat we extract the following the report that a battle had bad been fought between the mormons cormons and anti antl mormons cormons in in which some five hundred were slain is 13 all a hoax such vile statements only serve to ito give strength to the prophets Vs views indeed we do not dot know which has the worst effect on the community the doctrines of smith or the ten thousand false rumors constantly put in circulation against him one thing is certain bis lis name will survive when those who grossly 7 misrepresent him have become blanks on the page of the future thursday 11 elder W richards called upon elder P P pratt likewise bros samuel russell hiram kimball and stephen markham also upon bro eli ell elijah eiljah j ab Ford fordham harn hain to inquire about the lumber for the temple elders B young and 0 pratt traveled to peterboro Peter boro for the purpose of attending conference I 1 elders kimball wight and others went to wilmington and preached in the evening several saints from chester county were present elder IV woodruff preached in in boston this evening and endeavored to console the saints who were mourning the loss of the martyred marty red prophet and patriarch friday 12 prest marks consulted with william clayton about calling a meeting of 0 the presidents of various quo quorums ruins to appoint a trustee in trust in in behalf of the church chulo of jesus christ of latter day saints A council was held at 3 rpm pm but as dr richards and bishop whitney considered it premature the council was adjourned till sunday evening ev ening the bedell and backenstos arrived in nauvoo and reported that the governor had demanded the public arms at warsaw and was refused prest B young spent the day with the brethren in in peterboro Peter boro I 1 we learn from elder kimballs Kim balls journal that in in company with elder L wight and delegates to the convention from pennsylvania delaware ank and ani maryland he proceeded to baltimore he ile and br wight hearing so many contradictory re reports 0 its concerning the death of the prophets feit fert felt feit very lery anxious to obtain some correct information they went into their closets and prayed to the lord to open the way whereby they might know the truth concerning it immediately elder kimball went to the post office and got letters up to the of june from his wife informing him that crests joseph and hyrum smith had delivered them selves up into the hands of their enemies to be tried upon reading which they were immediately satisfied that the prof prophets fiets were massacred elder W woodruff wrote a letter of exhortation to the saints which was published irl ill in the prophet I 1 elder john E page wrote a long letter on mormonism which appeared in in the peoples organ of pittsburgh saturday 13 dr richards proposed the th organization of a fishing company to help heip supply the city cley of nauvoo with food elders kimball and wight returned to wil mingon and from thence to philadelphia where they read letters giving a particular account grethren of the martyrdom of their brethren sun sunday la y 14 meeting Mee at the stand elder P P p pratt preached dr richards proposed that the church postpone electing a trustee until the twelve returned and called a special conference 6 rpm pm several councilors councillors counci lors came to the council chamber to investigate the subject of chooh choosing in trustees but decided to wait walt until tile tiie tw twelve elve eive arrived I 1 we extract the following fro from m prest B youngs journal friday Fc friday iday 12 we held a meeting in in petar peter barol baroin in the evening preparatory fo to the conference tomorrow to morrow saturday 13 had a good time at conference confer enca all day the |