On this episode, Governor Thomas Ford is finally in town and he’s here to sort out the entire mess between the Mormons in Nauvoo and the anti-Mormons in Carthage. Meetings, letters, and affidavits are brought to Ford to inform him of the situation from both sides of the escalating conflict and he makes a judgement call: Joseph Smith, we’re going to arrest you and if you resist it means war. Ford details the facts he’s learned of the situation and his judgment of the events in a letter to Joseph Smith and Jo replies telling Governor Ford that he’s sadly misinformed by anti-Mormon propaganda. Jo tells the Mormons that the Governor isn’t on their side and that a war is imminent; he prepares by ordering the Nauvoo Legion to build temporary battle camps and dig defensive trenches around the city.
Links:
Warsaw Signal
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign184x.htm
History of Illinois by Governor Thomas Ford
https://archive.org/details/ahistoryillinoi00shiegoog/page/n330/mode/2up/search/nauvoo
Nauvoo City Charter
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/act-to-incorporate-the-city-of-nauvoo-16-december-1840/5
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Road to Carthage 10 - The New Reign
Road to Carthage 9 - Carthage Jail Gunfight
Road to Carthage 8 - The Final Hour
Road to Carthage 7 - Pride
Road to Carthage 6 - Fury
Road to Carthage 5 - Polygamy
Road to Carthage 4 - Jealousy
Road to Carthage 3 - Voracity
Road to Carthage 2 - Idleness
Road to Carthage 1 - Avarice
Ep 214 – Mormonism From Its Infancy
Ep 213 – With Useful Studies Store Your Mind
Ep 212 – Emma Smith, Linda Newell, and Valeen Avery
Ep 211 – “I Think You Are Perfectly Safe”
Ep 210 – First Night in Carthage Jail
Ep 209 – “We Will Be Reconciled to Our Fate”
Ep 208 – A Fateful Crossing of the Mississippi
Ep 206 – I’d’ve Gone West and Raised A Mightier People
Ep 205 – An Inevitable Riot and a Sham Trial
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