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Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"Smith, Joseph Fielding

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Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Name: Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"
Author: Smith, Joseph Fielding

Smith, Joseph Fielding

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

The Prophet wrote in his Journal that January 1, 1839, "dawned upon us
as prisoners of hope, but not as sons of liberty. O Columbia, Columbia!
How thou art fallen! 'The land of the free, the home of the brave!'
'The asylum of the oppressed'--oppressing thy noblest sons, in a
loathsome dungeon, without any provocation, only that they have claimed
to worship the God of their fathers according to his own word, and
the dictates of their own consciences." Elder Parley P. Pratt and his
companions in tribulation were still held in bondage in their doleful
prison in Richmond. The brethren appealed to the supreme court in
Missouri for a writ of habeas corpus. Twice their petition was denied.
They also petitioned the judges of the county for like privileges, and
sent a memorial to the legislature asking that they be granted a fair
and impartial trial before an unprejudiced judge in some other circuit,
where they might have hope of justice, which could not be obtained
from Judge King. Finally, in the latter part of February, 1839, they
prevailed on Judge Turnham, one of the county judges, who granted their
request after some reluctance. The judge was afraid of the mob, for the
threats were made by the members of the banditti, that if any judge,
jury or court of any kind, should free the prisoners they would be
killed. Great threatenings were made at the time of this trial, and the
brethren would have been liberated, only for the blundering, wilfully
or ignorantly, of their lawyers. Sidney Rigdon, who had suffered
terribly because of exposure and the ill-treatment he had received, he
being much older and less able to endure than the other brethren, was
released by the action of the judge, at this time. Through a kindness
on the part of the sheriff, Samuel Hadley, and the jailer, Samuel
Tillery, he was let out of prison in the night, for fear of the mob,
and told to make his way out of the state as soon as he could. Even as
it was, he was pursued by a body of armed men; but having a good start
made his way to Quincy, Illinois.

Departure for Daviess

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History

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Smith, Joseph Fielding

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

The Prophet wrote in his Journal that January 1, 1839, "dawned upon us
as prisoners of hope, but not as sons of liberty. O Columbia, Columbia!
How thou art fallen! 'The land of the free, the home of the brave!'
'The asylum of the oppressed'--oppressing thy noblest sons, in a
loathsome dungeon, without any provocation, only that they have claimed
to worship the God of their fathers according to his own word, and
the dictates of their own consciences." Elder Parley P. Pratt and his
companions in tribulation were still held in bondage in their doleful
prison in Richmond. The brethren appealed to the supreme court in
Missouri for a writ of habeas corpus. Twice their petition was denied.
They also petitioned the judges of the county for like privileges, and
sent a memorial to the legislature asking that they be granted a fair
and impartial trial before an unprejudiced judge in some other circuit,
where they might have hope of justice, which could not be obtained
from Judge King. Finally, in the latter part of February, 1839, they
prevailed on Judge Turnham, one of the county judges, who granted their
request after some reluctance. The judge was afraid of the mob, for the
threats were made by the members of the banditti, that if any judge,
jury or court of any kind, should free the prisoners they would be
killed. Great threatenings were made at the time of this trial, and the
brethren would have been liberated, only for the blundering, wilfully
or ignorantly, of their lawyers. Sidney Rigdon, who had suffered
terribly because of exposure and the ill-treatment he had received, he
being much older and less able to endure than the other brethren, was
released by the action of the judge, at this time. Through a kindness
on the part of the sheriff, Samuel Hadley, and the jailer, Samuel
Tillery, he was let out of prison in the night, for fear of the mob,
and told to make his way out of the state as soon as he could. Even as
it was, he was pursued by a body of armed men; but having a good start
made his way to Quincy, Illinois.

Departure for Daviess

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

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