Ep 201 – Nauvoo Expositor: A Hat Full of Money

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

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

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we examine the immediate aftermath of the Nauvoo Expositor being published. The Council of Fifty had some wonderfully grand plans for themselves and America. We spend a bit of time with the minutes to get a sense of what they had in mind. There were a lot of irons in the fire and many members of the Council of Fifty were all over the United States electioneering and taking high-level meetings for Joseph Smiths POTUS campaign. Once the Nauvoo Expositor was published, the city council deliberated for 5 hours about how to handle it. The contents of the Expositor were a great threat, but the greatest threat was that which was unknown. What would the next edition contain?

Links:

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-1845/98#full-transcript

Memorial to Congress
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/memorial-to-the-united-states-senate-and-house-of-representatives-26-march-1844/4#full-transcript

JS Nauvoo Journal
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-4-1-march-22-june-1844/149#full-transcript

Nauvoo City Council Minutes
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-city-council-rough-minute-book-february-1844-january-1845/22#full-transcript

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I am Ryan McKnight.
0:01.4	I'm Kara Santa Maria.
0:03.0	I am Christopher Smith.
0:04.5	Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.
0:06.0	This is Naked Mormonism.
0:08.8	The Serial Mormon History Podcast.
0:13.8	The Navu Expositor had been published.
0:17.9	The damage was done.
0:19.5	There was no stopping the Navu and outside public from boiling
0:24.5	over at the new startling and salacious revelations contained in this new paper. All that could be done now
0:32.5	was to react. That reaction would carry important consequences, so decisions needed to be made quickly
0:41.0	and wisely. Now, let's discuss the issues which factored into the decision-making process
0:48.0	in response to the Navajo Expositor. First and foremost, how would the public react? Thousands of Mormons had attended
0:57.3	multiple public meetings where polygamy had been outright denied multiple times by multiple
1:03.4	church leaders, including the prophet himself. The expositor blasted any hopes of the leadership
1:09.0	that they may have had of trying to keep the polygamy
1:12.3	revelation only among private circles. And the Navu expositor contained three affidavits
1:19.3	from people claiming that they had seen the text of the revelation themselves. How would
1:25.0	the general public of Mormons, especially in Navu, react to knowing that there was a higher law of the church that they weren't privy to?
1:34.3	Beyond that, Jane Law was a respectable person in Navu, and she claimed the revelation opened the door for some men to have as many as 10 wives.
1:43.9	How would that information impact
1:45.6	the women in Navu? For those who hadn't been approached by church leaders, well, what went
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