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Petition to the Missouri Legislature, 24 January 1839
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To the Hon The Legislature of Missouri
Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...
More InfoYour memorialists, having a few days since, Solicited
your attention to the same subject, would now respectfully submit to
your Honorable body a few additional facts in support of their prayer.
They are now in imprisonment imprisoned Under a charge of Treason against the
State of Missouri, And their lives and fortunes and characters being
suspended upon the result of the trial on the criminal charges preferred against them,
your Hon. body will excuse them for manifesting the deep concerns
they feel in relation to their trials for a crime so enormous as that of treason
Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...
More InfoIt is not our object to complain— to asperse any one. All we ask
is a fair and impartial trial. We ask the sympathies of no one, we ask
sheer justice– tis all we expect– and all we merit, but we merit that—
We know the people of no county in this State to which we would ask our
final trials to be sent who are prejudiced in our favour. But we believe
that the state of excitement existing in most of the upper Counties is
such that a jury would be improperly influenced by it. But that exci tement, and the prejudice against us in the counties comprising the fifth
Judicial court circuit are not the only obstacles we are compelled to meet.
Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...
More InfoWe know that much of that prejudice against us is not so much to be attributed
to a want of honest motive among the citizens, as it is to wrong information
But it is a difficult task to change opinions once formed, The other
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JS and others, petition, Liberty, MO, to Missouri General Assembly, Jefferson City, MO, 24 Jan. 1839; handwriting of James Mulholland; in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 66–67; JS Collection, CHL.
Located in western Missouri, thirteen miles north of Independence. Settled 1820. Clay Co. seat, 1822. Incorporated as town, May 1829. Following expulsion from Jackson Co., 1833, many Latter-day Saints found refuge in Clay Co., with church leaders and other...
More Info1804–3 Nov. 1839. Born in Ireland. Baptized into LDS church. Married Sarah Scott, 8 Feb. 1838, at Far West, Caldwell Co., Missouri. Engaged in clerical work for JS, 1838, at Far West. Ordained a seventy, 28 Dec. 1838. After expulsion from Missouri, lived ...
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