So the statements and records from the time that refer to those in the area planning to kill and/or drive out the Mormons from Missouri are incorrect?
You implied Brigham Young hacked off!
They went to Ohio, then Missouri, then back to Illinois, and then when JS got shot, they split up into the Smith family Company (called Reorganized LDS) and the Brigham Young Brigade (who maintained the original name) and got out of Dodge and headed for the wilds of Utah to get away from all the people that they had hacked off.
BTW the Mormons hacked off no one, the people in that area was very jealous at how industrious and prosperous the Mormons were some thing those folks were not able to do themselves and that tick them off!
Is it not the American way to stake your claim and work with God?
I gather the Mormon community bloom very fast and the rest were frighten, because as soon as they arrived there the land was already purchased and all went to work to get house and meeting house built.
That area was empty but the when man allow telestial thinking than those unkind thoughts enter and before you know it Jealousy and anger etc takes over!
Resty, please don’t change your story. I said nothing about Brigham Young’s attitude. I pondered about the reasons for his assumption of religious and secular power, though.
The townspeople were very hacked off at the LDS members and a lot of them would have been hurt or killed if they hadn’t hightailed it out of there.
***That area was empty but the when man allow telestial thinking than those unkind thoughts enter and before you know it Jealousy and anger etc takes over!***
If the area was empty, then there would have been nobody to get upset at the Mormons. I really wish that you’d get your story straight.
The REORGANIZATIONED kept the original name; too!
The FUNDAMENTALIST's kept the original name; too!