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Gov. Boggs and Gov. Ford. Anti-Mormon’s favorite Democrats.
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I know you are not talking about me...

I am not for the Democrats then or now..

I’m for the Republican political platform of the time...

The Twin Pillars of Evil...

Slavery of the Africans and the white slavery trade of polygamy amongst the anti-Christians AKA the mormons...

Well, most of the “incidents” seem to me to be jealousy from those around the saints coupled with the arrogance of a few of the saints. Missouri was about stealing the saints’ land, pure and simple and the thieves got away with it. All fine protestants, to be sureLet by good ole Governor Boggs. [OMM]

Gov. Boggs and Gov. Ford. Anti-Mormon’s favorite Democrats. [Rameumptom]

Boy, there seems to be a pattern here. Folks at the state level do something against Mormons. Why, the next thing ya know, the Governor's a target.

Fundie Mormons are targeted in 2008; suddenly the Gov's home is torched.
Missouri has antagonisms & conflict with 19th century Mormons, and then the Gov becomes a target of an assassin's bullet shortly after leaving office.

In May, 1842, ex-Gov. Boggs was shot while sitting alone in a room @ his residence. Boggs almost died. Boggs made an affidavit 2.5 months later, accusing notorious LDS strong-arm thug Orrin Porter Rockwell of Illinois of committing the murder. A second affidavit was made, where Boggs said he had "good reason to believe, from evidence and information now in his ;possession, that Joseph Smith, commonly called 'the Mormon Prophet,' was accessory before the face of the intended murder..."

O.J. Simpson like, only with Rockwell getting further than the visa-in-car Simpson, Rockwell headed out of the area & got clear to New Jersey where he hung out for the rest of 1842.

Rockwell was spotted & arrested after returning to the Midwest. He was jailed for 9 months, become an escapee in the process, but was jailed again & then graciously released by the Missourians as a Christmas present to Rockwell, but mostly because they wanted Rockwell to return to Illinois so he would lure Smith back to Missouri.

(So we see Guv's popularity with the Mormons)