Thomas C. Sharp talks about exterminating the "wicked and abominable Mormon leaders."

Date
Jun 19, 1844
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Thomas C. Sharp
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Thomas C. Sharp, “Joe Smith and Henry Clay,” The Warsaw Signal, June 19, 1844, in Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1979), 15

Scribe/Publisher
Thomas C. Sharp, Warsaw Signal
People
Joseph Smith, Jr., Thomas C. Sharp
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

We hold ourselves at all times in readyness to co-operate with our fellow citizens . . . to exterminate, utterly exterminate, the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders.

BHR Staff Commentary

Since a transcription of the Warsaw Signal was not available, a scan of the paper as quoted in Oaks and Hill, Carthage Conspiracy , 15 is included.

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