| Show tre THE TS mm BE ITH lih 1 1 The the following a from the cili clil chicago cago times which is in the main cpr ai as concerning the tragedy which is the tho burden of the article will be perused with much interest by our readers coming as 1 it does from a disinterested source some three ilire months since the remes times published a history of the mormon church from its inception annew in new few york to the expulsion of the saints irom from missouri and their subsequent settlement in illinois As the particulars of tho the discovery of or tile the golden tablets in the hill cumorah the tian tinn translation of their hieroglyphics into inlo the book of mormon by means of the arim and Thum mim the propagation af the faith falth and the graphic details of the Blisso missouri url uri war resulting in the capture and ultimate escape of joseph jos eph smith the prophet by bribing his ills guards were obtained from the only parties now living who are competent to give reliable information rma regarding these interesting events the article attracted d muen much muen attention and was of lili historic value another and a more tragic chapter in the eventful ilfe life of this strange man remains to he lee written and the times is in possession of the facts that enable it to complete the task half haifa a century ago there thore lived eed fed in new york fork in I 1 the he vicinity of palmyra where joseph soseph smith first became cahil known to fame a young man mau named B W richmond riehmond w who h 0 a afier after ft er waro warn udies medicine and aud acquired qui r e d tho ti ir i f doctor he formed josepe joseph there and was familiar with ith the circumstances attending ills his helf pelf elf announcement as s a prophet t in later years besa he saw 1 w him in ohio and anti observed his course with ini interest erest still later he met mit him in nauvoo and was an accidental witness of or the scenes inci inel dent derit to au and d consequent upon his hit tragic death at the hands bands of an illinois mob moti ten years afterward partly in com eom compliance olance with a request of tile the prophet made just pr prior I 1 or to his assassination li he wrote a full account orthe of the alfa sifa addair affair r intending to publish it in bookworm book form various causes combined to delay cation and in lif 1864 twenty years year after the occurrence orice price af pf f uhe the ev events nag he had committed owr to writing it I 1 ilg dr richmond died leaving th manuscript in the hands of ot his widow mrs ludinda ucinda li richmond 11 now residing rading in macgre mcgregor or towa lowa I 1 by has been car carefully bully eully treasured until the pre present senu sent time this tills manuscript is not only as interesting as a novel and aa aa 9 thrilling as any tragedy but it is a reliable chronicle of on one e of the most slit siri singular u and startling events in the hh tory of the natio n and contal contains ng a large amount of or never before given to the public I 1 dr richmond was wash not a bei bati levet ever in ait ali mormonism and would as 11 soon have chosen the duvil dovil for hia hla spirit ual guide as joseph smith OR and tt L his hid humanity led him hith into sympathy with ith him inmany dumany in many of hig his acts and his a acquaintance and facilities enabled him to judge him fro fron from m a standpoint entirely ditre din diu erent feut from folli that occupied by other historians ills his prejudices fridy have led JA bim him lul lol into errors and innocent parties moey may rest under undeserved ce censure asure i i or imputations I 1 but of or this the reader must judge dad dge for hampf himself the times purposes setting forth in brier brief the most striking features of this exciting narrative quoting the exact language of the writer only oily V when it serves to make ninke the deschi description more inore forcible TO A drover OP OF THE MATTER smatter a knowledg knowledge e of the character of the prophet a as well as of the he situation at nauvoo in 1841 1814 is essential that the age com eom common mon masses that composed the mormon church cli cil re a as a prophet there is little doubt the leaders ea demand and wise heads could not have looked upon ills his inspiration as very deep but they knew full well that their ma mar chinery the tife mode of their manifesting the bellef belief they held heid awas was veil veli calculated cal eal to so succeed that smith cou could ld havo have regarded h himself pl as i s inspired irl irk in the usual sense sen of ohp term is more than aa dou bu buu byu that hl success had implanted in his s mind which was intuitive rather eatherl than logical the beller belief that hewa borl bor for some great end endis Is cert certain a 16 that th t his death in its iwo hwo and mainer maiber has dano dane much to stamp him I 1 h aa a martyr among his friend sis equally true the thele cause huse w which leato leil to the assassination sassi nation pation of the Smiths were various the mormons cormons Mor Alor mons after their e expulsion from al missouri is were looked tad bad upon ulon by the people of aa as an air outraged anu ana persecuted ted teu people and were received with open arnis arms to such shelter as they could afford them without inquiry as to what tile the consequences might be of receiving into their midst a people who differed ditl ered so widely from them in religious belief the sagacious mormon leaders had adroitly selected a site for a city in hancock count county F 1 on the mississippi river and grom hrom ro in the sad wreck of their nils Alls missouri expulsion had commenced with almost incredible energy the construction of all sorts of buildings from the stately brick edifice to the humble slab but anything that would give shelter to their suffering people the site bore bare the name of commerce and lay in a horseshoe horse shoe bend of the mississippi that noble stream making almost a circuit around the cape hape from the point two miles back the land was low and then rose into a bluff of considerable height extending from river to river i ver the central and most mo prom anent point of the bluff was selected e d as a site for the temple where it IV would ouid command a view of al almost most esery house in the city those bhoge who could purchased farms of the old oid settlers in the vicinity in all dir directions eklons and aud the city an and aud colony olon y increased wit jtb hsuch such rapidity y that in a few months tile the older residents r e fa found instead of a few persecuted strangers thousands of persons in their midst who processed cassed a new religion and whose avarice hail had been increased by b y ddt edt rage poverty bovert and disappointment they row HOW became anxious to sell a it fair prices and hod lue ahe saints were a anxious to atas abas as low prices a possible th this Is J egin ewin competition petition in 11 interest interest terest resulted in frequent personal II 11 quarrels the farmers 17 endeavored deavo red to prevent supplies lle lie of food foo d reaching g the city and tad the saints reciprocated by endeavoring V dpn g I 1 to c control 0 atrol the grain krain marcec if lri ili that region re glon gion and hod to force palce the ra farmers to sell hell at ht the lowest luhe ITHE tile TIIE masses OF tiie THE MORMONS it in aird about nauvoo the tho icam name ot 0 tie lle liae new city eity were sober and in dust dut rious but there were some w wio oppressed by want or actuated by innate e cased cussedness t sto legran h horses aud and cattle from the peo people 1 e 1 ih the surrounding doil doii country tills tilis is leu leil to frequent tom lom to vol t conviction ednol or punishment cd com m bleed with ith loh this was vas another anothy edd edh fact et which bore more nidre heavily orl ori on ue the mormons cormons than tbell their their own awn acts thieves from alt all parts carts of the co country flocked and 1 plied their profession on tue the ere ore credit of in nume numerous rous roua instances cattle eattle vera were shot ahde by the political 4 and add aldthhe d religious enemies of aud and the sla pla slaughter tighter was charged to their account newty newly converted flock edin from all quarters A annd arid 4 at the tho end b bt th the first year yean y ear ean of tiley they had llad done dene indah much 1 to refair re tair their losses in iii Albiso missouri uri url the tho legislature incorporated the tha city the people were organized into toa a military foree force called the tha iau vao legion aud nud joseph smith was bot only droplet of the lord and preacher to the saints sainta but briga uler wor general and commander of the legion hedow he now felt his position secure than formerly and the leaders leader sad ad opte devery rhea thea measure gure guro political or 01 pecuniary th that would atwould be to give them control of their destiny with a design to td draw fram the legislature such acts nets as would lien llen ef t them therit in their isolated position they ahey soon began to make their votes felt in the local and state electro elections ng hedv and V LW phelps one of their chief men meu became a local jad ei in ther courts of the cou country hatry they voted en ien md with theother the other part party y doi dri and d taide turned the state election in ift favor of the democracy by cast east inga solid vote yote in favor of its gube gub ernat orial ehn didace di date 1 thi this s enraged the opposition tion liny and under the cir clr eirl ciri i cum it was to elicit the i hatred of or the opposing teil lell religious gloud sect sects this was the mure muro effectually as some of orthe lm im iru pruden pru dijt t I 1 saints clai cial claimed nied that they were not only going to possess hancock hancck co but god was wag in their opinion 3 go ag to assign iq tha dominion minion lo earth amt atul nihl ube uhe gen e tiles ulies must tick lick the gilst their thein leader vaa waa lq L q reg regarded arged far endowed id with the holy his hia sword was waa glen gien him that he might cx tend und and denend defend hla hia dominions N no other sect could draw such crowd to its solemn feasts and baptismal brathering and the hatred of other was kindled to a it flame several papers advocated the necessity of driving the mor alor mons in a body beyond the rocky bocky Aloun mountains talus and the feeling became decarne ho so great that candidates for the presidency were wera interrogated as to their view SMITH EVEN eves perpetrated tiie TILE THE rolly FOLLY af addressing a letter to henry clay written by phelps dema demanding nd his policy providing he ho should be ele elet ted led the sage of or ashland rd replied pled pied in vague abd and gt ter terms aa lot not to answer seemed unsafe as a the dior Alor mormons cormons mons were sup jug supposed posed to hold bold the balance ot power in the state and ahlis a fictitious political conse quence attached to the their vote the tile letter was unsatisfactory antl and joseph smith was at once proclaimed a candidate for the presidency V with sidney rigdon on the tiek tick ticket t fol foh ivice ivlee that joseph joseppi ewh who claimed to be ano anointed with heavenly wisdom and there fore might have inquired of aile tile he lord by and the prop hetle tie tle stones found at the tho theli lilli ill lii Cil cumorah morah and received answer ty bi a thus orthus saith the lord should seek information like ordinary mortals P though the medium of correspondence seemed to indicate nt not only a lack lack laek of courtesy but a want of confidence in the tile inspiration with which lie claimed to bv be endowed d 0 wed he hd replied lo 10 clay in a caustic and bitter letter also written by aliel phelps ps which was widely published ili in the papers and besides ra isings general gerie getie ml laugh at its ridiculousness served to irritate batea a powerful party against the whole sect ANOTHER CAUSE OF PF HATRED was th the e circulation ofa large number of the ahe worthless ba I 1 iso 0 of f the old kirtland auk bank ank an established in ohio some ten years previous by joseph smith find and which having failed to receive a 64 charter arter went to pieces some 8 speculator peculator or enemy put quantities or of them in id circulation around nauvoo and their worthless character raised raided a hue and cry against the hinesly t y of the sat faints i n tp sm smith I 1 th wr warned rued the people J n a notice ia an the nauvoo roo jorj against receiving the billi hills us they worthless ard and claimed that they had haa never been lieen C circulated by him b t had d been stolen from the vault by a mo mob that b broke roke into inlo the bank banu I 1 to the abovementioned abote above mentioned causes cause may also be added the apostasy fram the tho saints 1 tsar thur of Ge gen nJohn john U bennett this strang strange 0 compound of folly and slid depravity had passed through a checkered b business jimar 0 eer in the east and was ht hafl olie time in erie pi pa carrying the and und saie sale of heom eom com pound tomato pills which he be claimed to be highly efficacious in removing lug lallum humors rs in the them blood and obstructions of the liver ilver and the rival of ca calomel loinel generally 41 not finding his ills pill business sufficiently lucrative through t h vari tarl ous revolutions the doctor found 11 myself among the filor mons in nauvoo having conf cont considerable knowledge yo of mankind and dud A good deal more of tche the way waya a thing was to be done he abon renu rend rendered ered bred him aim self seif very useful tb ib the prophet by bringing I 1 to bear bea r un ton the J legislature 1 influx influences ances that resulted in the th e incorporation of the city and the organization of the legion iam law lam I 1 are turn turri he was made mayor mafoi of the city major genera general I 1 of the legion add and quartermaster general of the state joseph smith received rbt ye yb z heated 4 revelations concerning bonnett bennett and aud the assistance he was rendering rep dering we the the lord always adding by way ay of prudent precaution n against backsliding back sliding if my servant continues falth f fu ul 11 then thus thuy saith the lord ind gose GONE ABROAD to the them discredit of the that thai joseph smith taught s stealing t e lill A as i 1 fi duty on nov Y t tho the bt prophet perso Verso personally nally app appeared bared be before doro dore roro mayor bennett und and made vaido oath that he has never directly or indirectly encouraged cou raged the VU purloining na of property or taught tho doctrine of 0 stealing te li rigaud aud and thab thai all ali subh unlawful lets acts aud and vile practices will wilt receive b his is unqualified fled fied disapproval this singular document is signed jo 1 seph smith praden r oe fit the chbr ili ril of jesus latter dasin fe r i ast ats aas tiie tile W lord who inspired the ih prophet evidently supposed his servant john did not remain faithful but went out in a most moat woeful apostasy apo stacy and nd a furious quarrel eh ehl u that deepened the current ren tor of existing hatred awards towards the saints ap A the same time there dwelt nua noa among the saints and add ciuch of the time lime at nauvoo six ur or eight persons who were determined ta to bring to ali all an end the ibe car career i eer of that sin singular gular han hau jpseph smith and guiar jaia broh brothen brother ar heum hyrum there were two bro br brothers othera i beks bers higbee higbe from cincinnati worthless and te reckless ckles odi dwi two brothers named fos footer tere englishmen b by birth wila had come among the saints and land grown arieh by speculation and two other brothers named W wilson I 1 son and william law canadian refugees who who had engaged in the revolutionary lutio nary movement zie ale and on the failure of thal that enterprise had fled to the states and floated around |
