Ep 189 – The Next Mormon Settlement
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we get back into our historical timeline. It’s a busy time in Nauvoo, constant accusations of polygamy rage inside and outside the kingdom on the Mississippi. The Council of Fifty are scrambling to name a good Vice President for Jo’s POTUS campaign. Money problems affect every project in the city and more resources are being funneled into the Temple construction project. Church leader, King Follett, was just crushed by a bucket of rocks while digging in a well. Tensions between Nauvoo and the neighboring cities of Carthage and Warsaw were reaching a fever pitch. Property values were skyrocketing but nobody was buying with gold and silver, everything was bartered for or purchased with stocks in failing Nauvoo Companies like the House Association. Crime was at an all-time high and the city court system seemed to exist only to protect those who would obey the prophet and disobey the laws. Laws and ordinances were passed not based on what was best for the city, but upon what Joseph Smith or his cronies were feeling like that day. Complaints made by citizens of the city couldn’t be assuaged without interfering with the leadership’s extensive liberties. The City Council debates hog laws and reveals the church leadership trending towards aristocracy. Lyman Wight sends 2 letters to the leadership, one public the other private, describing the situation in the Pineries Mission and the next steps of the church which informs the first meeting of the Council of Fifty where they debate the next Mormon settlement (California, Texas, Oregon, Great Basin, Mexico, Canada, &c.).
Links:
History of the Church Source—and text—Critical Edition by Dan Vogel
http://www.signaturebooks.com/product/history-of-joseph-smith/
Warsaw Signal March 1844
http://warsaw.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=30053&i=t&m=between&fn=warsaw_signal_usa_illinois_warsaw_18440320_english_2&df=241&dt=250
http://warsaw.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=30053&i=t&m=between&fn=warsaw_signal_usa_illinois_warsaw_18440313_english_2&df=241&dt=250
http://warsaw.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=30053&i=t&m=between&fn=warsaw_signal_usa_illinois_warsaw_18440306_english_2&df=241&dt=250
Nauvoo Neighbor March 1844
http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor/1844/3-13-1844.pdf
Council of Fifty Minutes
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/47#full-transcript
“Bicycle day” event 19 April 2020 at Salt Lake City Library followed by a tour of Gilgal Gardens
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedelics-and-early-mormonism-what-hides-in-plain-sight-tickets-86967244369?fbclid=IwAR3hXoNtOcUwzHPCYVYJLTHDxFJaSED5pk_uXgZCgd-v3SxSda2iMDmiPAc
Utah Psychedelic Society
https://www.meetup.com/Utah-Psychedelic-Society/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am Ryan McKnight. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm Kara Santa Maria. |
| 0:04.1 | I am Christopher Smith. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Naked Mormonism. |
| 0:10.2 | The Serial Mormon History podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | Let's get back to our historical timeline. |
| 0:22.2 | After much ado, we took about a month to read through the entheogenic origins of Mormonism, |
| 0:27.6 | and the feedback has been fantastic, which we're going to discuss at the end of the episode. |
| 0:31.9 | But hey, that's not what you come to this show for. |
| 0:34.8 | You're here for the serialized history of Mormonism. |
| 0:38.6 | Our timeline currently stands in early March of 1844. |
| 0:43.3 | It's a busy time in Navu, Illinois, the kingdom on the Mississippi. |
| 0:47.4 | There's constant accusations of polygamy that are raging inside and outside of the kingdom. |
| 0:52.4 | The council of 50 are scrambling to name a good vice president |
| 0:55.3 | for Joe's POTUS campaign. Money problems affect every project in the city and more resources |
| 1:00.9 | are being funneled into the temple construction project instead of things that they need like, you know, |
| 1:04.9 | clean water and stuff. Church leader, King Fulet, was just crushed by a bucket of rocks while |
| 1:09.4 | digging in a well. Tensions between Navu and the neighboring cities of Carthage and Warsaw were reaching a fever |
| 1:14.8 | pitch. |
| 1:15.9 | Property values were skyrocketing, but nobody was buying any of it with gold and silver. |
| 1:20.5 | Everything was bartered for or purchased with stocks in failing Navu companies like the |
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