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Much on the Mormons at Nauvoo...
Much on the Mormons at Nauvoo...
Item # 710500
February 03, 1844
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Feb. 3, 1844 Pages 2 and 3 contain a lengthy article concerning the Mormons in Nauvoo. Headed: "The Mormons", bits include: "This singular community contrive to make themselves of importance. Numbering as they do many thousand persons, all moving with the perfect devotion at the nod of their prophet, and burning with ardor in a cause which most of them believe to be of divine authority...".
Further on is:."...Besides the building of the temple, the hotel, nay the city itself of Nauvoo where they a few years since took up their abode, great improvements have been effected..." and what followed is a letter detailing the development of Nauvoo by the Mormons.
This is followed by a report concerning: "...the repeated demands by the state of Missouri for the body of General Joseph Smith, as well as the common cruel practice of kidnapping citizens of Illinois & forcing them across the Mississippi river & then incarcerating them in the dungeons or prison in Missouri...".
Much more concerning this as well.
The Mormon content continues with another page containing: "Correspondence Of Gen. Jos. Smith and Hon. J. C. Calhoun" datelined at Nauvoo, and which includes a letter signed: J. C. Calhoun, and two letters signed: Joseph Smith, one very lengthy.
Sixteen pages, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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