Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxk!jdj55611 From: jdj55611@ihuxk.UUCP (J. D. Jensen) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Have Christians been 'harrassed' - (nf) Message-ID: <584@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 13:29:46 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxk.584 Posted: Wed Mar 21 13:29:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:38:06 EST References: <1692@pur-ee.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 61 >> >> /***** ee:net.flame / ihuxv!cuda / 10:11 pm Mar 15, 1984 */ >> Think of all the Mormons who were massacred and driven from their >> homes in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. Up until 1976 it was legal >> to shoot a Mormon on sight in Missouri. >> >> Mike Nelson >> ihuxv!cuda >> /* ---------- */ >> >>1976?????? I can't believe it was LEGAL to KILL any mormon you happened to >>meet. Can you give sources/cases where it was applied??? >> >> Thomas Ruschak >> ecn-ee!kechkayl >> "Aiee! A toy robot!" >> >> The following is a portion of the text of the order sent to General John B. Clark of the Missouri State Militia dated October 26, 1838: ...Your orders are, therefore, to hasten your operations and endeavor to reach Richmond, in Ray County, with all possible speed. The Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state, if necessary for the public good. Their outrages are beyond all description. If you can increase your force, you are authorized to do so, to any extent you may think necessary. I have just issued orders to Major-General Wallock, of Marion County, to raise five hundred men, and to march then to the northern part of Daviess and there to unite with General Doniphan, of Clay, who has been ordered with five hundred men to proceed to the same point for the purpose of intercepting the retreat of the Mormons to the north... The order was signed: L. W. Boggs, Governor and Commander-in-Chief This order was not rescinded until 1976 by the Governor of Missouri (I think his name was Carlyle(sp?)). I know of no recent cases in which this was used, but it did cause considerable hardship to the 12,000 men, women and children driven from the state during the winter of 1838. The first application of this order resulted in what is known as the `Haun's Mill Massacre.' Seventeen men and boys were killed in this attack on the `Mormon' community. The following description is taken from the `History of Caldwell County:' "...Wm. Reynolds, a Livingston County man, killed the little boy Sardius Smith, 10 years of age. The lad had run into the blacksmith shop and crawled under the bellows for safety. Upon entering the shop the militiaman discovered the cowering, trembling little fellow, and without even demanding his surrender, fired upon and killed him, and afterwards boasted of the atrocious deed to Charles R. Ross and others. He described with fiendish glee, how the poor boy struggled in his dying agony, and justified his savage and inhuman conduct in killing a mere child by saying, `Nits will make lice, and if he had lived he would have been a Mormon...'" J. D. Jensen AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL