| Show THE TEE WORLD ANSWERS A QUESTION A SHORT time ago a corres correspondent t ol of the new york world propounded the following questions to that journal will you please explain what became og of the mormon leader joseph smith did he tie die in jail when under conviction tor for murder or was he hanged T the h e world wade made the following reply HP he was assassinated in the riall his bis jailers before his bis trial rial his 4 aar no rio of the disco discovery of the records left by the ten tribes and aad his translation of the tablets led to the formation of a new christian sect the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in matters of dogma there was little or in its creed to distinguish it from any other orthodox christian sect but its possession of an alleged addition bible and the austerity and severity of the code of morals inculcated drew to it immediately imedla te a large following the same spirit of intolerance which in massachusetts slit flit the ears of quakers and banished baptists under pain paia of death blazed forth as fiercely as in the days of Athanas lus aud and arius the pulpit rang with denunciations of the new sect every calumny that could be invented was invented and believed and the mormons cormons were driven from place to place robbed beaten im prisoner and murdered exactly as the me fe I 1 of every other christian sect were persecuted this persecution increased their numbers rapidly in 1838 driven from missouri they founded and built the elt elty y of nauvoo ills and in a short time had bad a 9 community of their opponents finding that persecution was of no avail brought charges of disloyalty treason and other crimes and endeavored to bring about i a collision between them and the state authorities ties joseph smith hyrum smith john taylor and willard richards Ele bards mormon leaders offered to surrender themselves for a trial by their enemies upon the charges if gov ford would insure their protection from mob violence this he did and t the he four our gave themselves up and were I 1 lodged in the jail at carthage but t the he pledge was kept to the ear find and b broken V ti the hope the governor placed a guard of state militia in and around the all ail what theli instructions were is not known one day before ahe the trial while the prisoners sat cm they were suddenly surrounded by the guards who without a word of warning lev belled their muskets and riddled them with bullets joseph smith and his brother hyrum fell dead taylor was left for dead but recovered the assassins Sas sills were made the heroes of the hour brigham young succeeded to the leadership and the mormons cormons it hi despair sought a refuge in what was then called the great american desert on the shores of the salt lake to escape further persecution then young their leader committed the blunder of promulgating the doctrine of polygamy w which aich has since furnished the only weapon in the hands of their opponents and shut out all sympathy for their sufferings by mankind at lary to with a few except exceptions fons the statements in the foregoing answer are correct the plates from the book of mornion mormon was trans translated laced embodied the history of the i 4 ancie ancient inhabitants of this bonti continent nent and were not left on this land find by the ten tribes at the time ot of the massacre at carthage only joseph and hyrum were larison ers elders john taylor andi and willard richards being in the jail at the time as visitors plural marriage was not instituted by brigham young having been revealed through joseph smith aside from these points the world has made a very correct though compendious statement |
