Item Detail
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6942
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13
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English
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'High Treason and Murder' : The Examination of Mormon Prisoners at Richmond, Missouri, in November 1838
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BYU Studies
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Spring 1986
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26
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3-30
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"The Richmond court of inquiry, the preliminary hearing that sent Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saint leaders to jail following the so-called Mormon War of 1838 in Missouri, has long been viewed within the LDS community as a sham trial, held by Missouri officials to give legal covering to their persecution of the Saints. Joseph Smith labeled it a "mock examination" in which "there was not the least shadow of honor, or justice, or law, administered toward them, but sheer prejudice, and the spirit of persecution and malice." According to Mormon accounts, the chief witnesses for the state were apostates and persecutors who swore to all manner of lies. In addition, Missouri officials allegedly denied the defendants their right to cross-examine witnesses, bring their own witnesses, or testify on their own behalf. "In this mock court of inquiry the defendants were prevented from giving any testimony on their part, by an armed force at the court house . . . so there was no testimony examined only against them," wrote Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Elias Smith in a joint petition to Congress." [Publisher's abstract]
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The Final Episode of Mormonism in Missouri in the 1830s : The Incarceration of the Mormon Prisoners at Richmond and Columbia Jails, 1838-1839
Treachery and False Swearing in Missouri : The Rise and Fall of Sampson Avard
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A Biographical Sketch of G. M. Hinkle
A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
A Collection of Facts, Relative to the Course Taken by Elder Sidney Rigdon, in the States of Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839
An Appeal to the American People
Appeals to Supreme Court of Missouri
Atchison's Letters and the Causes of Mormon Expulsion from Missouri
Biography of Lorenzo Dow Young
History of David Pettigrew
I Knew the Prophets : An Analysis of the Letter of Benjamin F. Johnson to George F. Gibbs, Reporting Doctrinal Views of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer
The Life and Labors of Sidney Rigdon
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
Two Rare Missouri Documents