TS calls for violence after the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor.

Date
Jun 11, 1844
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Thomas C. Sharp
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Thomas C. Sharp, “The Time has Come!” Warsaw Signal, June 11, 1844, in LeGrand L. Barker, Murder of the Mormon Prophet: The Political Prelude to the Death of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2011), 412

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

War and extermination is inevitable! Citizens ARISE, ONE and ALL!!!—Can you stand by, and suffer such INFERNAL DEVILS! to ROB men of their property and RIGHTS, without avenging them. We have no time for comment, every man will make his own. LET IT BE MADE WITH POWDER AND BALL!!!

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