Farmers and Mechanics Advocate reprints Jackson County mob manifesto.

Date
Jan 30, 1834
Type
News (traditional)
Source
1833 Missouri Mob
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

"Communication," Farmers and Mechanics Advocate, January 30, 1834, 2

Scribe/Publisher
Farmers and Mechanics Advocate
People
Farmers and Mechanics Advocate, 1833 Missouri Mob
Audience
Jackson County residents
Transcription

More than a year since, it was ascertained that they had been tampering with our slaves, and endeavoring to sow dissensions and raise seditions amongst them. Of this their "Mormon" leaders were informed, and they said they would deal with any of their members who should again in like case offend. But how spacious are appearances. In a late number of the Star, published in Independence by the leaders of the sect, there is an article inviting free Negroes and mulattoes from other states to become "Mormons," and remove and settle among us. This exhibits them in still more odious colors. It manifests a desire on the part of their society, to inflict on our society an injury that they know would be to us entirely insupportable, and one of the surest means of driving us from the country; for it would require none of the supernatural gifts that they pretend to, to see that the introduction of such a caste among us would corrupt our blacks, and instigate them to bloodshed.

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