Tuesday, June 11, 1844 ---today: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The owners of the Expositor immediately went to Carthage and started an arrest warrant against the Mayor, City Council and the Marshal of Nauvoo.
Tom Sharp in the Warsaw Signal published today, Tuesday, June 11, 1844: "The Expositor press was destroyed. We have only to state that this is sufficient! War and extermination is inevitable! Citizens, Arise, One and All!!! Can you stand by and suffer such Infernal Devils! To rob men of their property and rights, without avenging them? We have no time to comment: every man will make his own. Let it be made with powder and ball." (How interesting that no mention is acknowledged of the same exact atrocities against the Saints in Missouri)
Joseph mailed an express copy of the letter to Gov. Ford, that he previously wrote explaining his decision to destroy the press and how he had legally gone about it. ( Again, Gov. Ford later claimed that he never received either of these letters.)
Interesting that some of the worst enemies of the Saints lived right along side them in their beloved city.
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