Thomas C. Sharp talks about exterminating the "wicked and abominable Mormon leaders."
- Type
- News (traditional)
- Source
- Thomas C. Sharp CriticNon-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectReprint
- Reference
Thomas C. Sharp, “Joe Smith and Henry Clay,” The Warsaw Signal, June 19, 1844, in Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1979), 15
- Scribe/Publisher
- Thomas C. Sharp, Warsaw Signal
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
We hold ourselves at all times in readyness to co-operate with our fellow citizens . . . to exterminate, utterly exterminate, the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders.
- Source Link
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn94088543/
- BHR Staff Commentary
Since a transcription of the Warsaw Signal was not available, a scan of the paper as quoted in Oaks and Hill, Carthage Conspiracy , 15 is included.
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