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- ...e river on foot. The Des Moines Rapids, located between Nauvoo and Keokuk, Illinois were, according to Wikipedia, "one of two major rapids on the Mississippi R8 KB (1,321 words) - 21:57, 1 May 2024
- ...rnized; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on Apr. 7, 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois; reported by Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards, Thomas Bullock, and Willia8 KB (1,283 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri45 KB (6,810 words) - 16:27, 30 April 2024
- ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri39 KB (5,785 words) - 15:02, 13 April 2024
- ...ear-old Joseph Smith, hiding from the law down by the Mississippi River in Illinois, confessed:8 KB (1,203 words) - 22:24, 11 May 2024
- *p. 34: The author claims that in Illinois Joseph "was still hunted by law officials for old offenses." *p. 38: "…Smith and fellow prisoners escaped to join their people in Illinois, where they proceeded to found a theocratic society."6 KB (984 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...aunius, ''Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), 2-3. [The balance of the ...is virtually no cultural context for understanding the Mormon conflict in Illinois. Also, they treat the Mormons as idealized figures whose motives are sacred12 KB (1,905 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- Nauvoo, Illinois, Nov. 13, 1843.12 KB (2,053 words) - 14:16, 13 April 2024
- ...idate writs from other jurisdictions was improper. Carlin, the governor of Illinois at the time, characterized it as an "extraordinary assumption of power….m ...charter was correct—that Nauvoo was subject only to the constitution of Illinois and not to its laws. The whole habeas corpus question was mooted in January10 KB (1,560 words) - 14:36, 30 April 2024
- ...aim: 79 - Presendia Buell "did not take the prophet's advice" to leave for Illinois while he was in Liberty Jail "prior to his escape from jail on April 16. N *Smith, Letter to "Brother and Sister [Newel K.] Whitney, and &c.," Nauvoo, Illinois, Aug. 18, 1842, Church Archives, Salt Lake City.50 KB (7,489 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- #''Revised Laws of Illinois, 1833; Revised States of the State of Illinois, 1845,'' secs 121, 122.58 KB (8,618 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...m: xiv - "The cyclical nature of this suppression of information, first in Illinois and later in Utah, left a brief window in Mormon history from which most of ...h to "Brother and Sister, [Newel K.] Whitney, and &c. [Sarah Ann,] Nauvoo, Illinois, August 18, 1842, Joseph Smith Collections, The Church of Jesus Christ of L18 KB (2,593 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L9=AGENTS FOR THE TIMES AND SEASONS. IN ILLINOIS. | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY, 1840.65 KB (11,746 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...he book "The Peace Maker" claims that Latter-day Saints were expelled from Illinois "primarily because of the dominant sense they betrayed public trust" ...eth W. Godfrey, “Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839–1846” (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1967), 96-97.30 KB (4,298 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ||"Antagonism against the Latter-day Saints arose [in Illinois] as it had in Missouri, from bloc-voting influence on local elections and t ...ess of Nauvoo was in part due to the collapse of any police force when the Illinois legislature rescinded the Nauvoo charter.26 KB (3,883 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...h was "due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about" ...uitur]]''. Oaks (and Firmage and Mangrum) demonstrate at length that both Illinois and U.S. law had ample precedent in case law and practice for the abatement13 KB (1,928 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...aunius, ''Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), 2-3.12 KB (1,771 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...similar to the Danites? The militia was organized with the sanction of the Illinois legislature, the state supplied arms, and its officers received commissions ...overnor, a probate judge, the U.S. District Attorney for Illinois, and the Illinois Supreme Court found that the arrest warrant from Missouri was illegal.<ref>33 KB (5,140 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ..., Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 64.</ref> At best, he is repeating Levi's early tale.)24 KB (3,823 words) - 21:52, 9 May 2024
- ...omitting mention of plural marriage as a cause for the Saints' troubles in Illinois?== ...th was due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about,” writes one critical author, citing five12 KB (1,811 words) - 21:52, 9 May 2024