Thomas Sharp reports on resolutions adopted by a council of citizens at Carthage suggesting violence against the Latter-day Saints.

Date
1856
Type
Manuscript
Source
Thomas C. Sharp
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
2nd Hand
Reference

"History, 1838–1856, volume F-1," June 14, 1844, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed December 7, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
Warsaw Signal
People
Hyrum Smith, Joseph Smith, Jr., Thomas C. Sharp
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

“Resolved, That the time, in our opinion has arrived, when the adherents of Smith, as a Body, should be driven from the surrounding settlements, into Nauvoo. That the Prophet and his miscreant adherents should then be demanded at their hands, and if not surrendered, a war of extermination should be waged, to the entire destruction, if necessary for our protection, of his adherents. And we do hereby recommend this resolution to the consideration of the several Townships, to the Mass Convention to be held at Carthage; hereby pledging ourselves to aid, to the utmost, the complete consummation of the object in view, that we may thereby be utterly relieved of the alarm, anxiety, and trouble, to which we are now subjected.

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