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The Mormon Trail
Joseph Smith's Assassination
The Nauvoo Expositor Newspaper
After being forcibly driven from Missouri, the Mormons would attempt to make their home in Nauvoo, Illinois, where they would initially be welcomed by the residents [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the habit of the Mormons to vote in blocks and the revelation of the leadership practicing polygamy would lead to the death of their founding prophet and their exodus to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1846. The extermination order would be repealed in 1976, 140 years after it was issued.
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The Doctrine and Covenants places the Garden of Eden and many other important Biblical sites in Missouri. In 1838 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] tensions between the people native to Missouri, settlers and the Mormon immigrants to the area reached its height, causing Governor Lilburn Boggs to issue the now infamous extermination order that drove Mormons from the state.
Joseph Smith's statement that appears in the Doctrine in Covenants Section 52:42 states that Jackson County is the land of the Mormons inheritance and that it was currently the hands of the enemies of the church. This proclamation inflamed the tensions between the two groups. The increasing tension would lead up to the Haun's Mills Massacre and Mormons were forced to leave the state by the spring of 1839.
Reasons for the High Tensions that Led to the Issuance of the Extermination Order
Anti-Mormon settlement was high in Missouri before the order was issued. Author John Krakauer states that Boggs won the governorship in 1836 by campaigning against the Mormons. Initially, the Mormons did not fight back under orders of Joseph Smith. As the violence against the members of the newly founded faith increased, the prophet was forced to mobilize a militia to defend the Mormon settlers from the increasing violence and severity of the attacks.
Joseph Smith himself surrendered to the Missouri militia and spent time in jail before his escape in 1839. When Smith returned to Nauvoo he issued a prophecy that Governor Lilburn Boggs would be dead by violence before the end of the year. Orrin Porter Rockwell, who later became known as Mormonism's Destroying Angel, helped enact this prophecy and shot the then retired governor. Boggs made an unexpected recovery from his injuries, and although the perpetrator of the deed was known, Rockwell was never charged for this crime.
The Mormons, who mostly came from Northern states, tended to favor abolition in a slavery state, according to author John Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. The Mormon habit of voting in blocks annoyed the non-Mormon inhabitants of the state [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who were mostly pro-slavery. Economic success and the fact that the Mormons tendency to do business only with other Mormons made the native Missourians even more suspicious and resentful of settlers in Jackson County.
Light Planet – Extermination Order
Under the Banner of Heaven. John Krakauer. Doubleday, New York, New York. 2003.
Violence against the Mormon settlers began in 1833, and continued until they fled to Nauvoo, Illinois to escape persecution, according to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. The Extermination Order of Lilburn Boggs stated that the Mormons needed to be driven from the state or eliminated. The conflict later became known as the Missouri-Mormon war.
The Issuance of the Extermination Order
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