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Revision as of 22:17, 11 January 2009
Claims made in "Chapter 10: A New Beginning" | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Claims made in "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars" |
Claims made in "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham"
To this day Mormons revere Young's destroying angels as well as the Danites.
—One Nation Under Gods, p. 252.
Some of the harshest criticism I received from Mormons came from those who were irate over my depiction of Brigham Young....then I acquired a new book dealing with the issue—Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by independent historian and Salt Lake Tribune columnist Will Bagley....This tremendously in-depth volume not only supported my perspective, but greatly expanded on my conclusions..."
—One Nation Under Gods (paperback), p. 442
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225 epigraph, 553-558n1 (PB) |
A lengthy letter is printed in its entirety in the endnotes. The author says that the letter from Aaron DeWitt was written to his sister Elizabeth Durrant on January 31, 1875 and slipped into a time capsule. The letter talks about murder and plunder in Utah. |
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226, n5 |
"In the eyes of the Saints, America's doom had been determined the day Joseph died." |
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227, 558n13 |
Broughton D. Harris found that census results for the State of Deseret were "false and exaggerated." |
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227-228 |
Regarding Broughton D. Harris, Lemuel G. Brandebury and Justice Perry Brocchus: "Before the year ended, these officials fled Utah, believing that to stay would mean certain death….a total of sixteen federal officers would abandon their Utah posts and lodge similar complaints about Mormon threats, intimidation, and non-compliancy with federal laws and directives." |
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228, 559n16-18 |
David H. Burr reported that "Mr. Troskolowski," had been "assulted and severely beaten by three men under the direction of one Hickman, a noted member of the so-called 'Danite Band." The beating "apparently had been ordered by LDS leaders in response to Troskolowski's efforts to make sure twelve-year-old Emma Wheat escaped her impending marriage to a polygamist. |
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231 |
The "infamous Reformation" was "a period of religious fanaticism, extreme spiritual subjugation of the masses, and brutal acts of violence to purge the church of its weak, faithless, or sinful members." |
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232, 559n32 |
"Other men, Brigham's enforcers, would see to the more unpleasant tasks of the reformation. This collection of rogues, commonly known as Young's 'Destroying Angels," was comprised of long-time Danites, brutal gunslingers, and assorted desperadoes. The most notorious angels of destruction were Porter Rockwell and 'Wild' Bill Hickman (a.k.a. the 'Danite Chief of Utah)." |
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232, 559n33 |
The author claims that Brigham "often commented on such individuals, favorably listing their unique qualities and extolling his gratitude for their presence in the territory." He then supports this with Young's quote: "We have the meanest devils on the earth in our midst, and we intend to keep them, for we have use for them; and if the Devil does not look sharp, we will cheat him out of them at the last, for they will reform and go to heaven with us." |
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233, n36-39 |
Brigham taught "blood atonement." |
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233-234, 560n40 |
Jedediah Grant preached about "Blood Atonement" |
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233, 560n37 |
Brigham "confirmed that the term 'cutting off' from the earth had been previously used, and would continue to be used, as a euphemism for killing." |
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234, 560n43 |
Jedediah Grant "drew up a list of highly intrusive questions to be used for probing the personal lives of those dwelling within the boundaries of Brigham's empire." |
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234-235, 560n45-46 |
Brigham "encouraged faithful Saints to murder, out of 'love,' all unfaithful Mormons so their souls might be saved." |
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235, 560n47 |
Heber C. Kimball claimed that the apostles killed Judas. |
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235, 560-561n50 |
"In Utah, a host of sins, real and imagined, would bring the death penalty." |
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235 |
"Blood began to flow profusely in Utah not long after the reformation was launched." |
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236, n52 |
After "relating a dream wherein he had slit the throats of two men 'from ear to ear' with a bowie knife" Brigham said: "I say, rather than that apostates should flourish here, I will unsheath my bowie knife, and conquer or die...Now, you nasty apostates, clear out, or judgment will be put on the line, and righteousness to the plummet." |
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236-237, 563n53 (HB) |
"Apostates certainly were viewed as the worst of sinners, although every reprobate received the same penalty. As Brigham instructed his flock: 'If any miserable scoundrels come here, cut their throats.'" (HB)
"Apostates certainly were viewed as the worst sinners, although every reprobate, risked similar justice. Young once said: "It was asked this morning how we could obtain redress for our wrongs; I will tell you how it could be done, we could take the same law they have taken...and if any miserable scoundrels come here, cut their throats." (PB) |
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237, 561n54 (PB) |
The author claims that "Young here may not have been explicitly condoning murder, but his words apparently were enough to move more than a few Saints to action. And the outside world's knowledge of Utah events seemed inconsequential."" He then quotes "Brigham's thoughts on that issue:"
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237, 562n55-56 (PB) |
According to the author, quoting Mary Ettie V. Smith, Brigham Young had a man named Alonzo Bowman killed after he "made the mistake of innocently asking about LDS beliefs and the facts behind the Saints' troubles." |
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238, 562n57-59 |
According to the author, Orson Hyde ordered Jesse Hartly shot and killed, for the crime of "falling in love with, and marrying, a Mormon." |
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238, 562n60 |
William Parrish and his son were murdered as they attempted to leave Utah because "LDS leaders also believed that Parrish's departure, if allowed, would set a bad example and tempt others to leave, which was forbidden." |
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238, 562n61 |
Aaron DeWitt said that escape from Utah was "virtually impossible." |
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239, 563n63-64 |
Richard Yates was killed "in apparent obedience to Brigham's orders" for the sin of "trading with government personnel." |
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241, 563n65-66 |
Henry Jones and his mother were murdered by Nathaniel Case, Porter Rockwell and "other church officials." |
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242-243, n67-71 |
"Innumerable crimes were committed in response to the bloody and violent rhetoric of Young and other LDS leaders." |
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244-245, 566n82 (HB)
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"...as the wagon-train traversed the southern route, conflict erupted between the emigrants and the Mormons, who refused to sell badly needed food and supplies to the travelers. Such conduct was unthinkable to the Baker-Fancher company. They had no idea that the refusals were in obedience to Brigham's prohibition on trading with the Gentiles." |
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245 |
"[T]he emigrants could not have known that two of the sins worthy of blood atonement were condemning Joseph Smith and/or consenting to his death." |
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245, 564n86 |
"The prophet...already had decided the fate of the Baker-Fancher party...at a secret meeting in Salt Lake City with several Indian chiefs." |
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245, 564n87 |
Brigham "promised all the cattle in the wagon-train to the Indians if they would do away with the entire company." |
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246, 564n89 |
"[A]s many as two hundred Indian warriors along with a very small group of Mormon soldiers dressed up as Indians, crept up to the wagon train camp and opened fire on the unsuspecting emigrants." |
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243-250 |
Mountain Meadows Massacre |
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251, 565n103 |
When Brigham Young visited the site in 1860 and saw the monument, he "ordered the monument and cross torn down" and demolished. |
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252, 565n109 (PB) |
John D. Lee's "constant companion throughout his trial" was a Methodist minister, "even though Lee had been taught all his life that Christendom's minister's were satanically-inspired and corrupt." |
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252, 565n111 (PB) |
"To this day Mormons revere Young's destroying angels as well as the Danites." |
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Endnotes
- [note] "WORST BOOK: Stanley P. Hirshon, Lion of the Lord (New York: Knopf, 1969)." - Larry C. Porter (Executive Secretary-Treasurer, MHA), "Mormon History Association Awards," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 16 no. 3 (Autumn 1983), 127–128. Another reviewer wrote, "At least once a decade, it seems, someone publishes a book about the Latter-day Saints without taking the necessary "trouble" to adequately research the subject. Stanley Hirshon was judged guilty of this offense in 1969 and received from the Mormon History Association its "Worst Book" award for his volume on Brigham Young." – Kenneth H. Godfrey, "Not Trouble Enough, review of Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon by Ernest H. Taves," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 19 no. 3 (Fall 1986), 139.
- [note] Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker, A Book of Mormons (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1982), 123. See also Hope A. Hilton, "Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1988), 127.
- [note] Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker, A Book of Mormons (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1982), 123. See also Hope A. Hilton, "Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1988), 127.
- [note] Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker, A Book of Mormons (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1982), 123. See also Hope A. Hilton, "Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1988), 127.
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