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Naked Mormonism Podcast

Ep 206 – I’d’ve Gone West and Raised A Mightier People

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

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

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, the chaos following the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor continues to escalate. Joseph Smith calls together a military parade as a show of force to any enemies in the city where he gives his final public speech as first Prophet of Mormonism. Jo’s cronies are active in collecting affidavits concerning the movements of the Illinois militias near Mormon settlements. Whether or not they’re true is hard to tell but daily extras flowing from the antagonistic Warsaw Signal give some credence to some of the allegations. Governor Thomas Ford eventually makes his way to Carthage to figure out just what was going on. We spend a bit of time discussing the conflict from Governor Ford’s History of Illinois and use that to consider the many conflicting interests involved in the coming Illinois-Mormon War.

Links:

Last Public Address of Lieutenant General Joseph Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauvoo_Legion#/media/File:Last_Public_Address_of_Lieutenant_General_Joseph_Smith.jpg

History of Illinois by Governor Thomas Ford
https://archive.org/details/ahistoryillinoi00shiegoog/page/n330/mode/2up/search/nauvoo

Warsaw Signal archive
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign184x.htm

Show links:

Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com
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Patreon http://patreon.com/nakedmormonism
Music by Jason Comeau http://aloststateofmind.com/
Show Artwork http://weirdmormonshit.com/
Legal Counsel http://patorrez.com/

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.

0:16.5

The Navu Expositor had been destroyed and the city was in turmoil.

0:24.2

Joseph Smith had intel from all over the state that various groups were forming mobs to descend upon the Mormon settlements.

0:33.0

These mobs sought, well, peaceful resolution to the Mormon leadership's flagrant abuse of their own legal system, but, you know, tensions were high and any unexpected spark could set off this powder keg.

0:47.1

Our timeline currently rests on the morning of June 18, 1844. Joseph and Hiram would be dead in barely a week's time, but they were implementing

0:56.6

every tool at their disposal to extricate themselves from their past transgressions.

1:03.9

Joe had nearly declared martial law. He had credible threats that the printers of the expositor

1:08.8

were planning on destroying the Mormon press of

1:10.9

the Navu neighbor, and a night guard watch was set around the neighbor, and at the wharf, where

1:16.4

folks would disembark from the Mississippi where ferreus were also tightly monitored by Joe's

1:21.3

shadow force to Danites. Joe also staked out a platoon of his personal bodyguards to watch over

1:27.1

his home during the night.

1:29.7

Mortal threats were a reality, and Joe was flexing his Navu Legion muscles to exhibit for his enemies that he was well protected.

1:39.8

On the morning of the 18th, Joe called on Major General Jonathan Dunham, a Danite to gather the first

1:45.6

cohort of the Legion in front of Joe's house that morning for a military parade. Parade here,

1:52.1

that's probably too happy of a word for what actually happened. This was actually intimidation.

1:57.5

If Joe could walk the streets of Navu peacefully, surrounded by his legionnaires, it creates a sense of like shock and awe for any of his enemies watching him so daringly walking around the city in broad daylight.

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