Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845

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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
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Source Note
See source note under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
Historical Introduction
See historical introduction under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
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The justices of
Carthage
Located eighteen miles southeast of Nauvoo. Settled 1831. Designated Hancock Co. seat, Mar. 1833. Incorporated as town, 27 Feb. 1837. Population in 1839 about 300. Population in 1844 about 400. Site of acute opposition to Latter-day Saints, early 1840s. Site...
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and
Warsaw
Located at foot of Des Moines rapids of Mississippi River at site of three military forts: Fort Johnson (1814), Cantonment Davis (1815–1818), and Fort Edwards (1816–1824). First settlers participated in fur trade. Important trade and shipping center. Post...
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have influence and power enough. The[y] commanded the forces of the
State
Became part of Northwest Territory of U.S., 1787. Admitted as state, 1818. Population in 1840 about 480,000. Population in 1845 about 660,000. Plentiful, inexpensive land attracted settlers from northern and southern states. Following expulsion from Missouri...
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and the
Governor
5 Dec. 1800–3 Nov. 1850. Schoolteacher, newspaperman, lawyer, politician, judge, author. Born in Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Robert Ford and Elizabeth Logue Forquer. Moved to St. Louis, 1804; to New Design (later American Bottom), Randolph...
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last summer.
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Robert F. Smith, a justice of the peace at Carthage, presided over JS’s case regarding his involvement in the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor in June 1844 and also served as the captain of the Carthage Greys, the militia unit assigned to guard the jail at the time of his assassination. William N. Grover, who served as both a justice of the peace and a captain in his local militia in Warsaw, Illinois, was one of the men indicted for the murders of JS and Hyrum Smith. (Message of the Governor of the State of Illinois, 14–15; Oaks and Hill, Carthage Conspiracy, 18–21, 56.)
Comprehensive Works Cited
Message of the Governor of the State of Illinois, in Relation to the Disturbances in Hancock County, December, 21, 1844. Springfield, IL: Walters and Weber, 1844.
Oaks, Dallin H., and Marvin S. Hill. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
He would rather have one deacon that [than] all their justices, especially one that can whittel without cutting himself.
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The primary tactic of the new police force was to intimidate their targets into leaving Nauvoo by following them around town while whistling and whittling with large knives.
When he thinks of the situation of things it makes him mad. When he thinks of the government he thinks ‘damn it’. There has been nothing but one continued scene of wrath and persecution poured upon us. They legislate for pe[r]secution. They legislate to take away our rights instead of affording us protection. Then he feels like cursing them, because the prophet Daniel said the kingdom which the God of heaven should set up, should not patch up the kingdoms of the world, but break them in peices.
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See Daniel 2:44.
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Robert F. Smith, a justice of the peace at Carthage, presided over JS’s case regarding his involvement in the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor in June 1844 and also served as the captain of the Carthage Greys, the militia unit assigned to guard the jail at the time of his assassination. William N. Grover, who served as both a justice of the peace and a captain in his local militia in Warsaw, Illinois, was one of the men indicted for the murders of JS and Hyrum Smith. (Message of the Governor of the State of Illinois, 14–15; Oaks and Hill, Carthage Conspiracy, 18–21, 56.)
Message of the Governor of the State of Illinois, in Relation to the Disturbances in Hancock County, December, 21, 1844. Springfield, IL: Walters and Weber, 1844.
Oaks, Dallin H., and Marvin S. Hill. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
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The primary tactic of the new police force was to intimidate their targets into leaving Nauvoo by following them around town while whistling and whittling with large knives.
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See Daniel 2:44.