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− | ONUG fails to provide us with several of the necessary facts.{{ | + | ONUG fails to provide us with several of the necessary facts.<ref>Readers are strongly encouraged to read the ''BYU Studies'' article in its entirety. Except where noted, information comes from {{BYUS|author=Thurmon Dean Moody|article=[https://byustudies.byu.edu/showtitle.aspx?title=5191 Nauvoo's Whistling and Whittling Brigade]|date=Summer 1975|vol=15|num=4|start=480|end=490}}. </ref> |
In January 1845, the Nauvoo charter was repealed. This left Nauvoo without a city government, and without a legal militia or police force. This was done despite the warnings of members of the state legislature that law and order would break down. | In January 1845, the Nauvoo charter was repealed. This left Nauvoo without a city government, and without a legal militia or police force. This was done despite the warnings of members of the state legislature that law and order would break down. | ||
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− | :The City of Joseph's elders ingeniously met the increasing flood of Gentile undesirables by organizing the boy population into a "Whistling and Whittling Brigade." Suspicious strangers immediately would be surrounded by groups of boys, armed with long-bladed jack-knives and sticks. Whichever way the suspect moved, the boys followed; whistling and whittling as they went. Not a question would they ask, not a question would they answer. They were too small to strike individually; too many to battle collectively. When they descended on a hapless stranger, they hugged his presence like vermin, until in exasperation he was glad to take hasty leave from the abode of the Saints.{{ | + | :The City of Joseph's elders ingeniously met the increasing flood of Gentile undesirables by organizing the boy population into a "Whistling and Whittling Brigade." Suspicious strangers immediately would be surrounded by groups of boys, armed with long-bladed jack-knives and sticks. Whichever way the suspect moved, the boys followed; whistling and whittling as they went. Not a question would they ask, not a question would they answer. They were too small to strike individually; too many to battle collectively. When they descended on a hapless stranger, they hugged his presence like vermin, until in exasperation he was glad to take hasty leave from the abode of the Saints.<ref>Paul Dayton Bailey, ''For This My Glory'' (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1943), 155; cited in Moody, 484.</ref> |
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[[fr:Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Whistling and Whittling Brigades]] | [[fr:Specific works/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Whistling and Whittling Brigades]] |
Flogging those out of fellowship | A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes
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The "whittling and whistling brigades" were a novel, non-violent means of community protection on the nineteenth-century American frontier in the absence of any civil government. In a situation where dispossession, extermination, and civil war were very real risks, the brigades seem to have worked surprisingly well, with few casualties. They were inadequate, of course, to deal with real armed aggression, and mob action forced the Saints to evacuate their lands and homes the following spring.
Similar issues are also ignored by the author elsewhere (see here.)
ONUG fails to provide us with several of the necessary facts.[1]
In January 1845, the Nauvoo charter was repealed. This left Nauvoo without a city government, and without a legal militia or police force. This was done despite the warnings of members of the state legislature that law and order would break down.
Wandle Mace's diary reads:
This, then, was the quandary in which the LDS leaders found themselves:
The twofold goal of the groups was to (1) care for the poor, and (2) keep the streets of Nauvoo safe, especially at night. The bishops and deacons assigned to this type of activity evolved into what became known as the "whistling and whittling brigades."
As one author described the tactics decided upon:
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