If he had kept his privates in his pants and not gone around destroying private property in the interest of keeping his shenanigans from being exposed, he wouldn’t have been in a position to be “martyred”.
Sorry, no sympathy here. The folks of that town obviously felt that he was going to get away with his affronts to public decency in addition to the destruction of private property and decided to dispense a bit of frontier justice. In retrospect, they unfortunately compounded the root of the problem.
The belief in polygamy, adultery and pedophilia in the name of God had taken root and BY now had a “martyr” he could hold up to the flock as “proof” of the so-called “correctness” of their abominable behavior.
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Smith's first wife, Emma, essentially said this way before you did: "It was secret things which...cost Joseph and Hyrum their lives, and it will cost you and The Twelve your lives as it has done to them."
Don't you agree with Emma Smith on this, OMM? "It was the secret things which...cost Joseph and Hyrum their lives... (Or do you want to critique Emma?)
Sorry, no sympathy here. The folks of that town obviously felt that he was going to get away with his affronts to public decency in addition to the destruction of private property and decided to dispense a bit of frontier justice. In retrospect, they unfortunately compounded the root of the problem.
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Joey Smith was the unelected Mayor of Nauvoo (Although he had been elected “king” LOL)
He was kept in jail because the Gov breought a charge of treason against him..
Joey Smith had decared martial law and had called out the Nauvoo Legion (maybe up to 5,000 men) just because of the newspaper being published...
Those milita had destroyed the press and burn the building...
Since Joey Smith had used his position to violate the constitutionall rights of those men and the citizens of Nauvoo, the Gov had him arrested etc...
Those citizens were sick of him and probably did think that Joey Smith was doing a King George and would get away with it as usual and they acted accordingly with their Tea Party..
King George was hanged in effergy and his governors and local rulers killed and driven off during the American Revolution...
And remember this was only 60 years after the end of the Revolution, and 30 years after the War of 1812...
Some of the men, and their dads and granddads would have fought for their right to live free, and here was “king” Joey Smith suppressing their rights again like the English king had done.
(And the mormons regard themselves as the “saviors” of the Constitution ROFLMBO)
Joey Smith had wantonly flaunted his one night stands, his stealing other mens wives, his boozing, his pyramid schemes, his land grabs, his corrupt government, his theocratic/dictatorial rule over Nauvoo. He had killed and stolen from the non-mormons and was a threat to their wives and young girls.
He thought he could take any woman and anything he saw. One woman he attacked fought him off him and told her husband. That husband, William Law, published the Nauvoo Expositor with the articles exposing Joey Smith.
And that, as Paul Harvey would say, is the rest of the story.