068 What Happened in Carthage? A Careful Walk-Through of the Martyrdom

Church History Matters

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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It was near midnight on June 24 that Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, and over a dozen members of the Nauvoo City council arrived in Carthage, Illinois to answer, for a third time, the charge of “riot” for their destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press. Although the case for this charge had already been heard and dismissed by two separate judges, Governor Thomas Ford insisted that they needed to be tried in Carthage specifically in order to prove to the general public that they were willing to be governed by law. And in response to Nauvoo leaders’ resistant fears of being tried in the extremely unsafe environment of Carthage due to the number of their enemies prowling about there, Ford “pledged his faith as Governor and the faith of the State [of Illinois] that [they] should be protected, and that he would guarrantee [their] perfect safety.” And so they had now arrived in Carthage, reluctantly throwing themselves “under the immediate protection of Governor Ford, … to trust … his word and faith for [their] preservation.” Within three days Joseph and Hyrum were dead. In this episode of Church History Matters, we carefully walk through a play by play from the historical record of what happened from the time Joseph, Hyrum, and the city council arrived at Carthage on June 24 under the supposed protection of Governor Ford to the time of the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum on June 27. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	It was near midnight on June 24, 1844 that Joseph Smith, his brother Hiram and over a dozen members of the Navao City Council arrived in Carthage
0:16.1	Illinois to answer the charge of Riot for the destruction of the Nava Expositor Press.
0:22.8	Although the case for this charge had already been heard and dismissed by two separate
0:27.4	judges, Governor Thomas Ford insisted that they needed to be tried in Carthage specifically in order to prove to the general public that they were willing to be governed by law.
0:38.0	And in response to Nahu leaders' resistant fears of being tried in the extremely unsafe environment of Carthage due to the number
0:45.7	of their enemies prowling about there. Ford pledged his faith as governor and the faith of
0:51.4	Illinois that they should be protected and
0:55.0	that he would guarantee their perfect safety. And so they had now arrived in
1:00.6	Carthage reluctantly throwing themselves under the immediate
1:04.4	protection of Governor Ford, trusting his word and faith for their preservation.
1:09.0	And within three days, Joseph and Hiram were dead.
1:15.1	In today's episode of Church History Matters,
1:17.5	we carefully walked through a play by play
1:20.0	from the historical record of what exactly happened from the time Joseph
1:23.8	Hiram and the City Council arrived at Carthage on June 24th under the
1:28.2	supposed protection of Governor Ford to the time of Joseph and Hiram's martyrdom on June 27th.
1:34.0	I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths.
1:38.0	And today Casey and I dive into our fifth episode in this series
1:41.0	about the martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith.
1:44.7	Now let's get into it.
1:47.0	Hello Scott.
1:50.7	Hi Casey, how are I sir?
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