ノーブー・エクスポジター新聞社の破壊

復元教会の記録によると、ノーブー市議会でノーブー・エクスポジター新聞社の印刷機およびその新聞紙の破壊・焼却が提案された時、市長ジョセフは賛成してなかったが、周りの圧力に屈し、その破壊指令を出すことに承諾したと、エマ・スミス（１８０４－７９）やジョセフ・スミス・ III 世（１８３２－１９１４）たちは言う。ウィリアム・スミス（ジョセフの弟）が述べるところでは、ウイラード・リチャーズとジョン・テイラーが、カーセージ牢獄にジョセフ、ハイラムと一緒だった理由は、エクスポジター紙の破壊を勧めた時に、それによってジョセフが入獄する結果になれば、責任を取って、自分たちも共にすると主張したためであると・・・・

　　　　　　魚拓：“Joseph Smith III’s Testimony about the Expositor

Joseph Smith III, the president of the Reorganized Church, wrote of his father’s opposition to the destruction of the Expositor press. He asserted:

One scene that happened before my father’s death remains on memory’s tablets, ever fresh. In the evening of the day that the Expositor press and material were destroyed, by order of the City Council, an act that should ever be condemned by good men, a crowd gathered on Main street, between the Mansion and the City Hotel, nearly opposite the residence at one time occupied by Sidney Rigdon, and among them was the Mayor, my father. Curious as others I ventured near them, and at a lull in the noise and confused murmur of voices, I heard my father’s voice, measured and clear, "Whatever you may think about it, you have this day made me do, in my official capacity as your officer, an act that I believe we shall all be sorry for, and that will make us great trouble hereafter." I am satisfied now, looking over the matter from the standpoint of matured manhood, that he was then convinced that the counsel to destroy the press was bad, and that such a desecration of the rights of others must result in distress, sorrow and regret. Who were with him on that occasion I do not know; there were thirty or forty, I should think, as I now remember the appearance of the crowd. (Edward W. Tullidge, Life of Joseph the Prophet [New York, 1878], 746)

In their effort to remove Joseph from office, the Laws and Fosters published one issue of the Nauvoo Expositor which contained statements which implicated Joseph and the Twelve with polygamy and called for Joseph to be deposed. It promised that many details of his alleged polygamy would be revealed in future issues. The paper caused such an uproar in Nauvoo that the city counsel met and debated it, and then ordered Joseph as mayor to have the police destroy it.

For more than a century and a half LDS historians and scholars have cited the Expositor's contents in attempts to prove that Joseph practiced polygamy. The articles and affidavits in the Expositor portrayed Joseph as being implicated in polygamy. Joseph was murdered only twenty days after the Expositor was published, and did not have the opportunity to prosecute the polygamists and prove his innocence in a court of the land, which he was anxious to do (see LDS History of the Church 6:411).”

http://restorationbookstore.org/articles/nopoligamy/jsfp-vol2/2chp14.htm

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