Ep 185 – “A FRIENDLY HINT TO MISSOURI”

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

Ldschurch, Christianity, Latterdaysaints, Religion, Ldschurchhistory, Mormons, Religion & Spirituality, Mormonhistory, Bookofmormon, Mormonism, Josephsmith, Mormon

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Joseph Smith’s presidential campaign is ramping up! Jo nominates James Arlington Bennet for his Vice-Presidential candidate, White-out Willard Richards drafts a letter to Bennet, notice is printed in the Nauvoo Neighbor, and a retraction is published the following week. A special conference is called to preach to 8,000 Mormons about politics, the campaign, and the Mormon expansionist agenda. Jo picks a few of his dissenters out of the crowd and grand-stands about them being enemies, preaching about how he will “use up” those who oppose the mission of the church. Construction on the Nauvoo Temple and tithing are emphasized. Bloody Brigham Young makes a speech about not filing legal complaints when wrongs are committed against you. An exploratory group is formed and armed to the teeth to venture into the wilds of Texas and Oregon for the next Mormon settlement and staging ground. A “Hint” is sent to Missouri and the Missourians in St. Louis start to get uneasy about a President Joseph Smith.

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0:00.0	I am Ryan McKnight.
0:01.3	I'm Kara Santa Maria.
0:02.8	I am Christopher Smith.
0:04.4	Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.
0:05.9	This is Naked Mormonism.
0:08.7	The Serial Mormon History Podcast.
0:15.6	Joseph Smith's presidential campaign was beginning to occupy an increased amount of time of the prophet and his
0:24.5	subordinates. John Taylor had written and published the pamphlet General Smith's views on the
0:30.4	powers and policy of the government of the United States, and that was published on 7th of
0:35.1	February 1844 in the Times of Seasons, as well as printed as a stand-alone document.
0:41.4	This was Joe's proclamation to the world that he'd be running for president, and it set out his political views and his general platform.
0:48.9	And we've read through it back on episode 166 of the show as we were entering 1844 and kind of forecasted some of the
0:56.6	major events that are going to happen in this year. This pamphlet was widely circulated, so
1:02.3	widely circulated that in fact, quote, 1,500 copies of my views out of press, end quote,
1:09.2	was recorded by Quilliam Claypen in Joe's Journal for the 24th of
1:12.8	February 1844. These things were something like hotcakes. John Taylor and Whiteout
1:18.8	Wood Richards were in full swing running the propaganda Mormon machine with the Times of Seasons,
1:24.2	the Navajo neighbor, and special pamphlets like this Joe's view on
1:29.2	president or views on the government. The history of Joseph Smith, that was a regular column
1:34.3	that was printed in the Times and Seasons and it had begun in 1842. And this was recognized
1:39.7	by a very curious person who had been completely absent from our timeline since episode 43 of
1:46.1	the podcast. That was titled The Red Sermon. And that was during early 1838 in Missouri.
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