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  • | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, MAY, 1840 ...rtridge, and to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in Quincy Illinois, and to those scattered abroad, throughout all the regions round about.
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  • ** [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/890 Illinois]
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  • ...re, Brigham and Emma did not agree on the disposition of Joseph's estate. Illinois law at the time held that no church could hold more than ten acres of prope
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  • ...f ancient appearance, were purported to have been unearthed in Kinderhook, Illinois, in April 1843. The so-called "Kinderhook plates" have been something of an
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  • | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JAN. 1, 1841. For publishing at the City of Nauvoo, Hancock County Illinois, a Semi-monthly periodical, to be entitled the
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  • NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 7, 1844. <br> State of Illinois,
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  • ...Times and Seasons (1839–1846)]: This newspaper was published in Nauvoo, Illinois between November 1839 and February 1846. It was the successor to the Elders
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  • | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 1, 1841. ...ision, and members of both Houses of the General Assembly, of the State of Illinois, as an evidence of our gratitude
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  • ...udents of Book of Mormon geography is the account of the 1834 discovery in Illinois of the "white Lamanite," called "Zelph" by members of Zion's Camp. Those wh
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  • ...ds' 1843 record of a First Vision statement made by the Prophet in Nauvoo, Illinois.
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  • ...sted of participating in the violence against Mormons in both Missouri and Illinois, poisoned a spring, and that they threatened to destroy one of the Mormon s
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  • ...en himself did not survive until the spring. A council was held in Quincy, Illinois in March to decide what obligations the Twelve had towards fulfilling D&C 1
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  • ...sh;B. Carmon Hardy, ''Solemn Covenant'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 9.</small>
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  • ...member of these bodies. This would have been impossible, since Masonry in Illinois at the time (1842) did not have the Scottish Rite at time and there is no r ...nprecedented procedure, and Grand Master Abraham Jonas (the grand lodge of Illinois grand master who raised the Prophet) was well within his rights in making J
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  • Governor Ford of Illinois then asked Joseph to appear before the Carthage judge to satisfy the anti-M
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  • ...w Message'', January 17, 1844, Vol. I. No 4.&mdash;A newpaper from Warsaw, Illinois
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  • |L8=AGENTS FOR THE TIMES AND SEASON IN ILLINOIS. | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, APRIL, 1840.
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  • | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 15, 1841. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly, that Sidney Rigdon, George W. Robinson
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  • | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, MARCH, 1840. ...mounting to about 15,000 souls, fled into the other States, principally in Illinois, where they now reside.
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  • ...then claim that since Joseph Smith was initiated as a Freemason in Nauvoo, Illinois shortly before he introduced the full endowment to the Saints (as opposed t
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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 R
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  • ...rnized; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on Apr. 7, 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois; reported by Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards, Thomas Bullock, and Willia
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  • ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri
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  • ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri
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  • ...ear-old Joseph Smith, hiding from the law down by the Mississippi River in Illinois, confessed:
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  • ...h] of the Prophet Joseph Smith set their feet upon the hospitable shore of Illinois, I became acquainted with them. I frequently visited them and listened with
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  • *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."
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  • ...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 sacred
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  • Nauvoo, Illinois, Nov. 13, 1843.
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  • ...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 January
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  • ...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.
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  • #''Revised Laws of Illinois, 1833; Revised States of the State of Illinois, 1845,'' secs 121, 122.
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  • ...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 L
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  • |L9=AGENTS FOR THE TIMES AND SEASONS. IN ILLINOIS. | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY, 1840.
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  • ...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.
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  • ||"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.
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  • ...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 abatement
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  • ...aunius, ''Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), 2-3.
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  • ...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>
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  • ..., 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.)
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  • ...ención del matrimonio plural como causa de los problemas de los santos en Illinois?]]
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  • ...cites “Gordon Madsen, ‘The Lawrence Estate Revisited: Joseph Smith and Illinois Law regarding Guardianships,’ Nauvoo Symposium, Sept. 21, 1989, Brigham Y
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  • ...he Story of William Clayton, a Mormon'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 33–4; see also 130–34.</ref>
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  • ...s, and the Oneida Community'' (Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1984), 162.
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  • The jury of Lee county, Illinois, awarded $40 damages and the costs against Joseph H. Reynolds and Harmon T.
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  • ...: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 113; citing A. H. Cannon Journal, Oct. 7, 17, 1889; Grant Jou
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  • ...: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 38–39, n. 42</ref>
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  • | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY, 1840. ...x co. Massachusetts, to his daughter Elizabeth Haven of Quincy, Adams co., Illinois.
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  • ...ood," A Sermon Delivered on 28 April 1842, from the Minutes of the Nauvoo [Illinois] Relief Society, original in Church Archives; reproduced in {{wordsjs1|star
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  • | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 1, 1840. ...Certain, and Final Cure for Salt Rheum, Tetter, Michigan or Prairie Itch, Illinois Mange, Scald Head, Scrofula, Ringworm, Obstinate Old Sores, of long standin
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  • |L4=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: The Kingdom of God in Nauvoo, Illinois" by D. Michael Quinn
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  • |L21=Response to claim: 34 - The author claims that in Illinois Joseph "was still hunted by law officials for old offenses" ...laim: 38 - Joseph and the other prisoners "escaped to join their people in Illinois, where they proceeded to found a theocratic society"
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  • ...pril 20, 1974, at the Mormon History Association Annual Meeting at Nauvoo, Illinois, I delivered the Presidential Address entitled, “Is There No Help for the
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  • ...le, after detailing the many factors that contributed to animosity between Illinois and the Mormons, Elder B.H. Roberts concludes that events were “awaiting
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  • ...n sequitur. 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 abatement
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  • ...openess. "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 ...th was due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about." (p. 449)
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  • *In Illinois Joseph "was still hunted by law officials for old offenses." (p. 34)
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  • ====4 June 1834: (Zion's Camp) Joseph Smith believes that Illinois is the "plains of the Nephites"==== ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH"
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  • Illinois. Termination of the Mormon War. “To the Anti-Mormon Citizens of Hancock "The Anti-Mormons, in Hancock county, Illinois, says the St. Louis Reveille, of the 16th ult., are endeavoring in a lawles
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  • ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH." This statement was signed "ED," which attributes it dire
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  • ...t the Saints lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, not New York State. And, in fact, Illinois Governor Thomas Ford at age 28 was married to 15-year-old bride Frances Ham ...30%) was slightly higher than a reasonable estimate for his peers in 1840s Illinois (20%), it was far from being historically high. One might wonder if America
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  • *George T. M. Davis, of Alton, Illinois, ''An Authentic Account of the Massacre of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet ...n of Joseph and Hiram Smith, the Mormon Prophet and Patriarch At Carthage, Illinois, June 27th, 1844, By an Eye Witness'', T[HOMAS]. A. LYNE (NY: 1844): 9-10.
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  • ...od baths—one in Carthage and another when anti-Mormons (and probably the Illinois militia) retaliated by laying siege to Nauvoo for insurrection. To avoid ci
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  • |summary=In 1997 InterVarsity Press of Downers Grove, Illinois, published a book coauthored by moderate Baptist minister Craig L. Blomberg
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  • ...RLDS church was organized in Amboy, Illinois. Emma Smith lived in Nauvoo, Illinois until her death. Emma did not encourage or organize the RLDS church; when
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  • ...alled his enemies "Christians" and that the Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois because they "had been unable to live in peace with their neighbors" ...alled his enemies "Christians" and that the Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois because they "had been unable to live in peace with their neighbors"==
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  • ...'Warsaw Signal'') is the first known to have used the term in print (see ''Illinois State Register'' [1 Nov 1844]; reprinted in ''Nauvoo Neighbor'' [13 Nov 184
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  • *Kenneth W. Godfrey, Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839-1846, Ph.D. dissertation, BYU, 1967, pp.63-65"
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  • ...Advocate'' (29 April 1835). Reprinted from ''The Pioneer'' (Rock Springs, Illinois), March 1835. {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CIS
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  • Joseph Smith that now is living in the state of Illinois, the son of Joseph the Prophet, will never lead the Latter-day Saints: he m ...the sons of Hyrum and Samuel Smith with us. They visited their friends in Illinois when they went to England on their last mission and held a conversation wit
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  • ...ix original plates) brought in 1843 to the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois, appears to solve a previously unanswered question in Church history, helpi
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  • ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH." This statement was signed "ED," which attributes it dire
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  • ...ousands and thousands of dollars' worth of property in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois? though I have never looked back upon it, it is as ashes under my feet. I a
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  • ...murdered general, (murdered while under the sacred pledge of the State of Illinois,) his paternal grandfather; I say, was at the elbow of Colonel Ethan Allen,
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  • ...requently speaking upon the building of temples in Kirtland, Missouri, and Illinois. When the people refused in Kirtland to build a temple, unless by a special ...n Jackson County persecutions, or were not driven from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and stripped, robbed, and plundered of all your property. Do not mourn and
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  • ...e troubles in Kirtland, Ohio; in Davis and Caldwell Counties, Missouri; in Illinois; and up to this place. And what of it? I have not known or seen a single sa
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  • ...ng my goods there, and preparing for living; I left all behind and went to Illinois. Well, the revelation was that several of the brethren must start on missio
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  • ...rner stones of Temples, in Zion and her Stakes, and then had to retreat to Illinois, to save the lives of those who could get away alive from Missouri, where f
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  • ...if they had known that many of us had more than one wife when we lived in Illinois? They would have broken us up, doubtless, worse than they did. They may bre
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  • |>=[[../30|The Constitutions of the United States and Illinois, etc.]]
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  • |H=THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ILLINOIS—NAUVOO CHARTER AND MUNICIPAL COURT—WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ILLINOIS—NAUVOO CHARTER AND MUNICIPAL COURT—WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
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  • |<=[[../30|The Constitutions of the United States and Illinois, etc.]] ...to remain in peace, and a desire to plunder, accomplished our exodus from Illinois. Perhaps, however, in this last case our enemies might have entertained som
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  • ...the politicians. How long would it have been before the whole election of Illinois would have been controlled by the Latter-day Saints? Our enemies saw this, I will take the Government of the United States, and the laws of Missouri and Illinois, from the year 1833 to 1845, and if they had been carried out according to
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  • ...o deed of conveyance of real estate, executed by any of you in Missouri or Illinois, after you were warned to leave, and threatened with violence if you did no
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  • ...orseback, and took possession of all the roads between the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, and some set out on a steamboat, with a determination to examine ev ...then done. The news spread all over the United States that the Governor of Illinois had treacherously pledged the faith of the State for the safety of Joseph S
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  • While we were in Illinois, if every trangressor [transgressor] of the law of that State, in our commu
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  • ...cing as they did when they massacred him in Carthage Jail, in the State of Illinois. It is not any particular doctrine or men and women that they are opposed t
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  • ...Did it not always stir up the devil? It was so in Kirtland, Missouri, and Illinois; and will it not be so in the City of the Great Salt Lake? It will. Are you ...to obey counsel when the Lord speaks. We have escaped our difficulties in Illinois, and got a possession in these goodly valleys, by obeying the commandments
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  • ...or people by their enemies. For instance, read Governor Ford's History of Illinois, and you will find that he will contradict himself half-a-dozen times in on
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  • Go to Illinois and Missouri, and mention Joseph Smith to the mob that tried to butcher and
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  • ...re the Battalion went to California, or when we were first driven out from Illinois, that we should ever be prospered, clothed and fed until we could come here
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  • ...l be millions of them ready to communicate the news to devils in Missouri, Illinois, California, Mexico, and in all the world. And the question will be, "What
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  • ...ocality of the afflictions that have come upon this people. Take Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, and they are the places where we {{page break|90|top}} have been
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  • ...h] of the Prophet Joseph Smith set their feet upon the hospitable shore of Illinois, I became acquainted with them. I frequently visited them and listened with
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  • made their way to Illinois and searched for land to purchase.
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  • |section=Life in Nauvoo, Illinois (1839–44) ===Life in Nauvoo, Illinois (1839–44) {{WikipediaUpdate|9/3/2011}}===
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  • but while a prisoner in [[Carthage, Illinois|Carthage]], it was too late to clarify his preference. Joseph Smith that now is living in the state of Illinois, the son of Joseph the Prophet, will
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  • ..., as I am that I was acquainted with my earthly father who died in Quincy, Illinois, after we were driven from Missouri. My recollection is better with regard
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  • I recollect once walking up to a house in Illinois, where a young woman was sitting just within the door dressed up, I may say ...to live? Many of them will merely manage to stay, just as a family did in Illinois. During a conference held in their neighbourhood, we would sit down at the
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  • ...ingdom of God with all their hearts. Some may have done so in Missouri, in Illinois, in other parts of the United States, in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany,
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  • ...Saints, I say it is true; and Joseph Smith the Prophet, who was killed in Illinois, in Carthage Jail, is the author of it; or, in other words, he was the inst
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  • ...could whip out the "Mormons," and then they thought that a few counties in Illinois could do it; but of late they have come to the conclusion that it will take ...the work, if possible. It was so in Kirtland; it was so in Far West and in Illinois; and I expect it will be so here; but it will all tend to roll on the work
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  • When we were in Nauvoo, at the beginning of the last winter we spent in Illinois, about the time the clouds were gathering so thick, and the last storm bega
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  • | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 15, 1840. ...and rode forty miles, through a level farming country, something like the Illinois prairies, we passed through Oxfordshire, leaving the Oxford university a li
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  • ...not be many years before they cannot raise a spoonful in that land, nor in Illinois, nor in any other land where they fight against God. Mildew shall come upon
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  • ...s return from there, being driven from that State in 1839, in Pike County, Illinois. He had been in the Church some years, and had been faithful.
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  • Whom did we rebel against in Illinois? We staid in Illinois, lived there as peaceable citizens, and had a city charter, and under its p
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  • ...ere broken up, which was a serious time, and in Far West, in Missouri, and Illinois, the priests of the day, the bigger portion of them, and those they call th What did they say in Missouri, in Kirtland, in Illinois,—the Methodist priest, the Baptist priest, the lawyer, the judge, and the
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  • ...case, but have allowed wholesale murderers to run at large in Missouri and Illinois. And many of the people and of their rulers have consented to the shedding ...mobbed and plundered again and again, till eventually we were driven into Illinois.
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  • ...old senators, Stephen A. Douglas, recently said before his constituents in Illinois, that nine-tenths of our people were aliens. We have a larger proportion of
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  • ...the persecutions through which this people have passed in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and the various places where we have been located; and when has the Lord b
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  • ...o. That was one of the most. productive seasons ever known in the State of Illinois. It has been asked me by some of the brethren, "Do you think we shall have
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  • ...ish for any better laws than are the most of those enacted in Missouri and Illinois. What, then, was the difficulty with this people? Magistrates, sheriffs, co
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  • ...by the poor, miserable devils from Kirtland to Missouri, and from there to Illinois, then across to Mississippi, and over the Plains to the valleys of the moun
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  • ...aries that killed our men and burned our grain and houses on Green Plains, Illinois. Nor yet, until they punish Missouri and cause the wrongs of the Saints in When we were driven from Missouri and Illinois, leaving all our property, except what little we could take in the hurry, t
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  • ...s an individual but would have preferred to inhabit the vacant prairies of Illinois, Iowa, or Missouri, than to have been under the necessity of wandering {{pa ...persecution we had suffered in Missouri, and that we were then enduring in Illinois.
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  • ...e last days of Joseph, which resulted in the expulsion of this people from Illinois. ...ns, making good, as far as money and means can do it, their losses;—when Illinois shall have done the same, and the General Government shall take action to m
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  • ...e troubles in Missouri, after again being driven from our homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, and after being led to this secret retreat and sustained all the time by t
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  • ...another. Why cannot you pursue that course, just as you did in England, in Illinois, in Missouri, or in the Southern States, or in Massachusetts and in Vermont
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  • ...et the people go to work and trim off such bitter branches as Missouri and Illinois, because of their wickedness and mobocracy; and then the nations will begin
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  • Suppose we had been permitted to remain in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, could the words of the Prophets have been fulfilled concerning this people
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  • |S=Synopsis of an Address delivered by President JOSEPH SMITH, in Commerce, Illinois, Tuesday, June 2, 1839.
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  • ...we had just survived the bloody persecutions of Missouri, and had got into Illinois, and were all as poor as a church mouse ever was, and many of us felt almos Finally, however, the people of Illinois became hostile, and would not let us live in their midst; and we were force
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  • ...he whole of it. Two fellows were stump speaking for office in the State of Illinois: one of them was a lawyer, of flowery, eloquent speech; and the other was a
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  • ...ngs, and not have implicit confidence in everything they do. How was it in Illinois? Under the pledge of the Governor of that State, when he pledged himself mo ...of this Territory, and left his poor wife desolate and forsaken in Oquaka, Illinois. This is one of those immaculate characters they sent out here to ameliorat
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  • ...uri testify; let the tribulation this people had to endure in the State of Illinois bear witness. We will not refer to persecutions in Utah, for here we have h
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  • ...some fifteen or twenty thousand were forcibly expelled from their homes in Illinois. In the summer following, the sick, and the poor, and the aged, whose circu ...as to irrigate the land, and spend as much labour in that one thing as the Illinois farmer would in raising his whole crop. Independent of all this, look at th
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  • ...Brigham Young is an Apostle and a Prophet. If the people in Carthage or in Illinois had known these things, they never would have killed Joseph.
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  • ...difficulties. I never was more happy in my life than I was in Missouri and Illinois, when we were passing through those trying scenes; and I can say that I nev
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  • ...ily. They said that they would drive us from Ohio, from Missouri, and from Illinois, and they did so; but they cannot drive us from these mountains we now inha
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  • ...were comparatively beneath my feet. "Why could you not live in Missouri or Illinois?" I believed that Joseph Smith, jun., was and is a Prophet, and that Jesus
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  • ...n I had not been there long before they requested us to leave the State of Illinois. Well, we came along to Winter Quarters; and we found very good quarters: a
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  • ...to the rolling forth of this great and mighty work. In our expulsion from Illinois, our journeyings across the Plains, our settlement in this Valley, all has
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  • ...he plans for destroying the Prophet as did those in Carthage or in Warsaw, Illinois. It was planned by some of the leading men of the nation. I have said here
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  • ...e and not there. You cannot ride from here to Carthage, in Hancock County, Illinois, before breakfast, if you try; and every one that now tries to come from Wa ...e my witnesses. Joseph said that the bones of hundreds of the Missouri and Illinois mobocrats, who drove the Saints from those States, should bleach on the pla
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  • ...ur wives and children, in Jackson county, Missouri, and in Hancock county, Illinois, just as well as we can here, and none would dare to molest us. And until t
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  • ...rights of others? We have been outraged and abused in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; but whom have we interfered with? We are at the defiance of the world to p
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  • Now, were we to take a man from the broad prairies of Missouri or Illinois and show him the narrow flats of the Rio Virgin, he would be apt to describ
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  • ...Counties, and last of all from Caldwell County, from whence they fled into Illinois, have been scattered over the Plains—gnawed and broken by wild beasts, an
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  • We found the same doctrine held good in Illinois, and the same principle has been carried out precisely by the action of the
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  • ...as any in the State, and I expect to go back to it. Do we own anything in Illinois? Yes. In Ohio? Yes. The Lord will call back the Latter-day Saints, although
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  • ...ext, I shall want the State of Illinois. All this Territory, Missouri, and Illinois are not going to be sufficient territory for Heber and me, to say nothing o
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  • ...ighty had not interfered, they would have killed us all. We then went into Illinois, and had not been there long before they began to serve us in like manner.
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  • ...cupy the position we do in these mountains. Do we now feel very sorry that Illinois drove us from our homes? What say you? The Lord has preserved us thus far; ...when he first received the plates, and continued in Ohio, in Missouri, in Illinois, and in the various cities, towns, counties, and states that we have occupi
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  • ...e is better off than he would have been if he had remained in the State of Illinois, yet, as one of the poet's has said:—
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  • ...is considerable authority upon this subject, he was Secretary of State in Illinois when we lived in Nauvoo, and no particular friend of ours. If we have not a
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  • ...but preached the Gospel to his brethren. They put him in Carthage Jail in Illinois, under the same false allegation, and slew him without a trial before his p
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  • ...the old man out of the window. Then how much safety was there in Missouri, Illinois, or anywhere else in the Eastern States? Could we stay there, gentlemen? No
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  • ...t to make laws and appoint administrators of the law for California, Ohio, Illinois, or Missouri. This, however, is done by the Congress of the United States; ...ive us our rights, and under them we could have served God in Missouri and Illinois as well as in the courts of high heaven, But the administrators of the law
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  • When the Saints escaped from Missouri and subsequently from Illinois; when we wandered over the prairies and found a resting place for a season
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  • ...e. It forced us from Ohio to Missouri, from Missouri to Illinois, and from Illinois into the wilderness. We were accused of disloyalty, alienation, and apostac ...ouri and Iowa, and other States, if necessary, and to call volunteers from Illinois, from which State we had been driven, to destroy the camp of Israel. This s
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  • ...y the benevolent Christians of the State of Missouri, and driven away into Illinois, and from exposure and over-exertion and suffering reduced by disease and s
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  • ...o go to. We had to leave our homes and possessions on the fertile lands of Illinois to make our dwelling places in these desert wilds, on barren, sterile plain
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  • ...uthless hand of mobocracy to the four winds; driven from Missouri and from Illinois by their enemies in the dead of winter and exposed to the severity of the s
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  • ...of Missouri; I think of what we passed through and endured in the State of Illinois, and I shall not soon forget our wearisome and toilsome journey from Nauvoo
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  • ...have already built two Temples: one in Kirtland, Ohio, and one in Nauvoo, Illinois. We commenced the foundation of one in Far West, Missouri. You know the his
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  • ...hen they were driven from Jackson county, in Missouri; and from Nauvoo, in Illinois and they had as much confidence in it when they were struggling here for a
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  • ...here for? To live in peace. Were they those who robbed us in Missouri and Illinois? No.
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  • Did you not think brethren, you who were in Missouri and Illinois, that the inhabitants of those places did just as they pleased with regard
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  • ...ersecution in Arizona—An American Siberia—Persecutions in Missouri and Illinois not the Result of Polygamy—Affecting Reference to the Martyrdom of Joseph
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  • ...were in years gone past in Missouri, as our Prophet and Patriarch were in Illinois, as our revered President was shot to pieces at the same time—men's blood
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  • ...so on the religious question there is not much love lost. We had to leave Illinois and come here. It was not very agreeable, as I have said, to have to leave
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  • ...e promise that punishment would not be inflicted. But like the Governor of Illinois, who pledged his honor and the honor of the state to protect our Prophet an
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  • ...PERSECUTION IN ARIZONA—AN AMERICAN SIBERIA—PERSECUTION IN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS NOT THE RESULT OF POLYGAMY—AFFECTING REFERENCE TO THE MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH ...PERSECUTION IN ARIZONA—AN AMERICAN SIBERIA—PERSECUTION IN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS NOT THE RESULT OF POLYGAMY—AFFECTING REFERENCE TO THE MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH
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  • ...us off in troubles and in tribulations while in Ohio, in Missouri, and in Illinois, and the God that has been with us through these troubles will not forsake
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  • ...and with Saints of our own times who suffered in Kirtland, in Missouri and Illinois. The brethren referred to have expressed regrets that they had not been ass
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  • ...land. Ohio, westward through the State of Ohio, State of Indiana, State of Illinois, State of Missouri, to the western boundaries thereof. There he pointed out
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  • ...n Missouri, before we were driven out altogether; then we were driven from Illinois to this Territory. But what of that? I know some men who thought the work w
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  • | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JULY, 1840 ...napped], when he escaped out of their hands and returned into the State of Illinois.
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  • ...here for? To live in peace. Were they those who robbed us in Missouri and Illinois? No.
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  • ...Governor Thomas Ford wrote as follows in the title page of his History of Illinois:—"An account of the rise, progress, and FALL of Mormonism." Notwithstandi Go to Pottawatomie, Iowa; Nauvoo, Illinois; or Kirtland, Ohio, and ask for apples and peaches, and you will find them
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  • ...State of Missouri, or subsequently, when we were driven from the State of Illinois, and compare it with the present day, that to-day is {{page break|310|top}}
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  • ...in Missouri and apostatized. When the persecuted and driven Saints reached Illinois, the word of the Lord through the prophet Joseph was—gather up to Commerc
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  • ...one for us. When we reflect upon the situation of this people in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and other places, and contrast our present position with our c
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  • Why all this? They killed the Prophet. The mob that collected at Carthage, Illinois, to commit that deed of blood contained a delegation representing every Sta
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  • ...ace; and I was {{page break|235|top}} with the Saints in their troubles in Illinois and Missouri." And they speak of it as though they were proud to have been ...mpled under foot and they were expelled from the State. It was the same in Illinois, and in every place where they gathered together. In view of this it was a
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  • ...settle west of the Rocky Mountains. When we were dwelling in the State of Illinois, and had had a few years of comparative peace, the Spirit of the Lord reste ...ur farms and property they, in the midst of a severe winter, drove us into Illinois.
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  • ...s people have been broken up, and the last time, when we left the State of Illinois, we cut our road through the timber, we hunted our path over the prairies, ...o? When we were in Missouri we had a place we could go to; when we were in Illinois we had a place we could go to, but now, that we have come here to the middl
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  • ...ary, 1846. The commencement of the settlement in Commerce, Hancock county, Illinois, was in the summer of 1839. ...t of Latter-day Saints, were murdered in Carthage jail, in Hancock county, Illinois, while under the pledge of the Governor, Thos. Ford, who had plighted the f
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  • The Lord softened the hearts of the people of Quincy, Illinois, and while the hundreds of Saints were fleeing over the snow-clad prairies As soon as Joseph Smith escaped from Missouri to Illinois, he purchased lands at a place known as Commerce, in Hancock county, and co
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  • ...south of the great lakes in the great Mississippi Valley in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, etc., must have understood the Hebrew characters; and not only t ...unty to Ray, and out of many counties in the western part of Missouri into Illinois.
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  • ...deal of property in different States, considerable in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. Do I care anything about it? No, we have more land here than we can occupy
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  • ...of the Temple to be laid, as directed in the revelation, the Church was in Illinois, having been expelled from Missouri by an edict from the Governor. Joseph a
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  • ...had shoes to their feet, after leaving every thing you had in the State of Illinois?" I do not think that more than one or two of my wives had shoes to their f ...you ever did this? You who came from England, or from the rich prairies of Illinois or Missouri never did. Well, this was my education. "Did you not go to scho
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  • ...seph in 1843. It was known by many individuals while the Church was yet in Illinois; and though it was not then printed, it was a familiar thing through all th
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  • ...exatious lawsuits by the State of Missouri and by the State authorities of Illinois, and all means that could be taken within reach of the law were used to bri ...m, and we knew how to build more; we had tried it twice in Missouri and in Illinois; and when they drove us again we thought that we would go into a country so
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  • ...thout entering into details, that, at the time the Saints were driven from Illinois to this land, he was called upon and sent east, as one of the agents of the
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  • ...ide-spread, that it was barbarous to kill him, under the plighted faith of Illinois, yet the general feeling was that it was a good thing that he was dead. But
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  • ...ity unless we did as He told us. Finally, we were driven into the State of Illinois, where we purchased a beautiful spot of ground on the eastern bank of the M
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  • ...would have been, when driven, peeled and scattered, we were coming out of Illinois, to have said we should yet lay the foundation of a great State, such as we ...wn us when he was a boy in Illinois; now himself a professor in one of the Illinois colleges, and a man of some note in the scientific world. He had seen or he
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  • ...the nations of the earth, to the State of Ohio, then to Missouri, then to Illinois, and then to these valleys.
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  • ...t to this country, or take them to California, Oregon, or to the plains of Illinois, Wisconsin, &c., and make a town, settle up the country, and make these poo
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  • ...Joseph Smith, even when he had the pledge of the governor of the State of Illinois that he should be preserved, and when not one scratch or law could be found
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  • ...n the wonderful deliverances that God has wrought out for us since we left Illinois. Up to that period or up to the time that the temple was partly finished an
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  • ...Illinois. This gentleman was not a "Mormon" when we went from Missouri to Illinois, neither was he when we left that State, and he was in a position to know w ...so we were not persecuted for that, sure. We did not leave Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, or any other State or neighborhood within the confines of civilization for
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  • ...people, and robbed and peeled them of the property they had accumulated in Illinois, and in 1847 the pioneers' advanced guard, led by President Young, succeede
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  • ...Missouri, Jackson County, and the northern counties in Missouri, and from Illinois, and how they have passed through all this and everything by way of sufferi
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  • ..., fled into Illinois, and there laid the foundation of a temple at Nauvoo, Illinois, the finest building then in the western country, and the admiration of eve
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  • ...het while in Illinois? Where are they who drove the Latter-day Saints from Illinois into these mountains? Trace their whole history and see for yourselves. The
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  • ...the roads from the Missouri river here. The ample property we possessed in Illinois we had left there; and we made the roads, about 300 miles, or nearly across ...times driven from our homes. We had left our inheritances in Missouri and Illinois, and had got nothing for them, and here, whatever other things we lacked, w
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  • ...tell us what the Lord did with the elements in Wisconsin, and in Chicago, Illinois, last Fall? They made a flaming fire of the heavens, the elements were melt
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  • ...issouri; again from Far West and Caldwell County; driven from the State of Illinois, though we were prospered there until the people waxed wealthy through thei
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  • ...born in these mountains. What do they know about what we passed through in Illinois, Missouri, Kirtland, or New York State? I will give you one item. I lived c
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  • | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JUNE, 1840 ...d the Demoin [Des Moines ?] Rapids, in the county of Hancock, and state of Illinois: the Rapids on the river affords food privileges for all kinds of machinery
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  • ...lled Joseph and Hyrum Smith, while under the pledged faith of the State of Illinois; and at Haun's Mill, Missouri, they massacred about eighteen of our {{page
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  • ...driven from Ohio, expelled from Missouri, or banished from their homes in Illinois. Such has always been and such is to-day the spirit of the world towards us
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  • ...last they succeeded in driving us {{page break|62|top}} from the State of Illinois. ...had staid [stayed] long enough with them; we agreed to leave the State of Illinois in consequence of that religious prejudice against us that we could not sta
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  • .... The first Temple we built was in Kirtland, Ohio; the next was in Nauvoo, Illinois, and a foundation of a third was laid in Far West, Missouri. Since our comi
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  • ...every other place east of us. In travelling through the broad prairies of Illinois, with the continuous fields of grain; and through Iowa and Nebraska, so far
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  • ...thage Jail and to the treatment generally of the "Mormons" in Missouri and Illinois for the true and faithful answer.
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  • ...d we interfere with anybody's rights. They drove us from Missouri and from Illinois, and here we are, and what now? We were on Mexican territory when we arrive
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  • ...his servants should go forth, two by two, preaching through Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, that they should meet together in general Conference on the w
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  • ...sition that we have occupied in this nation, in the States of Missouri and Illinois, and in the various countries of those States, and the history of this peop We commenced again in Illinois, just on the same principle. There we built a Temple, and performed the ord
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  • ...exander McRae of the 11th Ward, escaped and made their way to the State of Illinois. ...you." Joseph accordingly returned to his friends in the western border of Illinois, and they commenced purchasing lands in the vicinity of Nauvoo, and they la
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  • ...and again, the same thing occurred in Ohio, in Missouri, and, finally, in Illinois, where, contrary to the plighted faith of the governor of the State, he was
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  • ...e hold the deeds to the present day. After that we settled in the State of Illinois, in Nauvoo. We were there but a few years when the Prophet, his brother and
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  • ...tigate for themselves and to know for themselves. When we started out from Illinois and traveled over these plains, were we following President Young because h
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  • ...ong been held in bondage; and instead of being in a little city or town in Illinois, where we were not permitted to dwell, we are here in the valleys of the mo ...sition to be gratified to cause the exodus of his people from Missouri and Illinois, and they were finally kicked right into the middle of the floor, into thes
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  • Was that the way we dwelt in Missouri or Illinois? Did we live in quietness and with assurance continually in those States? O
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  • ...ople in the State of Missouri, neither did he follow us up to the State of Illinois; but we often heard of him, and whenever we did so we heard of him telling,
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  • ...her's family gathered with the Saints; he went to Missouri and returned to Illinois, and got married. And this afternoon we have heard one of his sons speak to
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  • ...te the State. We then found ourselves assuming a little more importance in Illinois, and we learned too, that as we increased there in strength and importance,
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  • ...eturned from Nauvoo, he said: "I will pledge you the faith of the State of Illinois for your safety." But as soon as he was gone, the mob murdered both Joseph
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  • ...its early history, and suffered the persecutions in Ohio, in Missouri and Illinois, thought that their persecution was very great, even greater than that of a
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  • ...previous ages—they slew the Prophet of God. His blood stains the soil of Illinois, and of the United States, his blood smokes up to God with the blood of Abe
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  • ...stles. As for myself, I never left any place with more gladness than I did Illinois. To launch into the wilderness, to grapple with all the difficulties incide
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  • ...egard to misrule and mob violence, for under the pledge of the governor of Illinois, made to me and to Dr. Bernhisel, (who is here presented) Joseph and Hyrum
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  • ...driving ten thousand of this people beyond their borders into the State of Illinois; and what excuse the people of this nation had who took part in, and those
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  • ...ak|249|top}} Arizona, for instance, we had found an admirable country like Illinois, like Ohio and the Mississippi Valley and the Middle States that are watere
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  • ...s not a faithful woman, who crossed the Mississippi River when driven from Illinois, but felt and knew that it was right for us to go into the wilderness and t
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  • ...d of our fellow-men. And when five hundred men—after we were driven from Illinois in 1846—were required to make up the Mormon Battalion for the Mexican war
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  • ...d sustained under such circumstances. When I reflect upon our journey from Illinois, through the wilderness, destitute of everything, women carrying infants wi
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  • ...e not stay in Missouri? Because people would not let us. It was just so in Illinois. Why did we leave there? Because, as I have heard Brother George A. Smith s
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  • ...re once members of the Church, who during the trying times of Missouri and Illinois, or at some other time in, the history of the Church, had stopped by the wa ...lavery that if a negro and his wife could be taken out of Missouri through Illinois, that they were entitled to their freedom because they were then upon free
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  • ...thern and Western States, is in advance of the great States of Indiana and Illinois, and I believe in advance of the general average of the entire Union. ...you have been fraudulently {{page break|62|top}} despoiled in Missouri and Illinois, you will again possess, and that without force, or fraud or violence. The
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  • ...ossessed before, a city charter granted to them by the State government of Illinois, They soon became notable for their union and their tenacity to the princip After the expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo, and from the State of Illinois, our enemies thought surely the "Mormons" are now broken up, and that this
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  • ...ovidence, through the acts of our enemies. Had we remained in the State of Illinois, or in Missouri, we should have been compelled—unless we had chosen to oc
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  • ...er these circumstances the Lord moved upon the legislature of the State of Illinois to grant us a city charter in which there were favorable provisions that we
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  • ...the patriarch Hyrum Smith, at Carthage in the free and sovereign State of Illinois. Unappeased with the blood of martyrs, it devastated cities, villages and f
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  • ...ecutions of Missouri; and I wish I had been with the Saints in the days of Illinois, etc.; I can promise every Latter-day Saint that is faithful, that he will
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  • ...ve done. He founded colonies in the States of New York, Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, and pointed the way for the gathering of the Saints into the Rocky Mountai
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  • ...o flee in the depth of winter, and cross the Mississippi into the State of Illinois. Now, whoever heard then of plural marriage? It was not practiced. It was t
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  • ...uence of their suffering. Our track can be traced, or could be traced from Illinois by the graves of our people—[p.140|top}} men, women and children—who di
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  • ...s exhibited in the mobbing and drivings of our people from Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and other places, in the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum i ...welve were told to go to the Far West, some 200 miles distant from Quincy, Illinois, where many of the Saints were then staying. We did not have railroads then
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  • ...e mobbers of Missouri when they drove us from our homes there, or those in Illinois when they drove us from there. We should learn a lesson from these things;
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  • ...elded an influence which controlled the county of Hancock, in the State of Illinois, {{page break|249|top}} and which materially affected the political status
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  • ...ere. not because the United States had taken steps against us, but because Illinois and Missouri had expelled us from their borders, and we could secure no red
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  • ...istory, and dwell on events as they transpired in Ohio, in Missouri, or in Illinois. Let all those things pass. You can read them in our history. But as I have ...ese "Mormon outlaws," these people who were considered unworthy to live in Illinois and in Missouri have come here, and we behold to-day hundreds of settlement
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  • ...s of the mountains? Because we had to flee from Missouri to Illinois; from Illinois into these mountains, to seek for that protection among the savages of the
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  • ...in in this land; that we may not be removed as we were from Missouri, from Illinois, and from Ohio? What shall we do that we may not be brought into bondage, b
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