1. Carthage

2. Back to School TEACHER: Lou, go to the map and find North America
Lou: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
CLASS: Lou did!
TEACHER: Krikit, how would you spell "crocodile?"
Krikit: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
TEACHER: No Krikit, that's incorrect.
Krikit: Ok, but you asked me how I would spell it!.
TEACHER: Now, Ernie, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
Ernie: No Maam, I don't have to. My Mom is a good cook.
TEACHER: Pam, what do you call a person who keeps on talking and talking, even if people are no longer interested?
PAM: A Gospel Doctrine teacher?

3. Joseph’s Legacy
D&C 135
“Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it. … He lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people; and like most of the Lord’s anointed in ancient times, has sealed his mission and his works with his own blood; and so has his brother Hyrum. … Their innocent blood … is a witness to the truth of the everlasting gospel that all the world cannot impeach
Gov.Thomas Ford
Thus fell Joe Smith, the most successful impostor in modern times; a man who, though ignorant and coarse, had some great natural parts which fitted him for temporary success, but which were so obscured and counteracted by the inherent corruption and vices of his nature that he never could succeed in establishing a system of policy which looked to permanent success in the future

4. Tale of Two Jails
5 Years
Class discussion about what Joseph accomplished in the five years between the two prisons

5. Wilford Woodruff
Joseph Smith was what he professed to be, a prophet of God, a seer and revelator. He laid the foundation of this Church and kingdom, and lived long enough to deliver the keys of the kingdom to the Elders of Israel, unto the Twelve Apostles.
He spent the last winter of his life, some three or four months, with the Quorum of the Twelve, teaching them. It was not merely a few hours ministering to them the ordinances of the Gospel; but he spent day after day, week after week and month after month, teaching them and a few others the things of the kingdom of God.
Said he, during that period, 'I now rejoice. I have lived until I have seen this burden, which has rested on my shoulders, rolled on to the shoulders of other men; now the keys of the kingdom are planted on the earth to be taken away no more for ever.' … he lived until every key, power and principle of the holy Priesthood was sealed on the Twelve and on President Young, as their President.
He told us that he was going away to leave us, going away to rest. Said he, 'You have to round up your shoulders to bear up the kingdom. No matter what becomes of me. I have desired to see that Temple built, but I shall not live to see it. You will; you are called upon to bear off this kingdom.' This language was plain enough, but we did not understand it any more than the disciples of Jesus when he told them he was going away… (JD, 13:164)

6. The Perfect Storm Missourians Politics
Carthage was a result of a perfect storm of four different groups who wanted Joseph dead. The Missourians were still angry about him escaping. Also, Boggs assassination attempt brought petitioners and warrents. The Politics is on the next few slides.
Politics

7. Group 2- Politics Whig party- Anti-Mormon Democrats (Republican Party)
Warsaw Signal (Thomas Sharp)
Sigamo Journal in Springfield, Ill
Mouthpiece for John C. Bennett
Democrats (Republican Party)
Governor Ford
Local candidates
Joseph voted Whig because he promised a candidate he would. But the Saints voted in mass, raising the ire of Thomas Sharp (who was also a Master Mason).

8. Joseph Smith For President
Fall letters sent to major presidential candidates
3 did not answer, 2 responded with “no help for Mormons”
Jan Joseph chosen
Sidney Rigdon chosen as Vice President
Apostles sent on “missions” to the east after April Conference

9. Truman Madsen
Wilford Woodruff, who conversed with the Prophet just after April Conference 1844, recalled that he later sent ten of the Twelve East on a mission, and that the Prophet seemed to linger in saying goodbye to him.
Then, looking him through and through, he said, "Brother Woodruff, I want you to go, and if you do not, you will die." And he looked "unspeakably sorrowful, as if weighed down by a foreboding of something dreadful." (Last Months and Martyrdom, Joseph Smith the Prophet)

10. Joseph Smith’s Political Platform
Cut Gov’t by two-thirds
Reduce congress pay to farmers level
Sell public land to buy back slaves,
Outlaw slavery by 1850
Annex Texas, Oregon, Canada, Mexico
Prisons for violent prisoners only; made into universities
Strengthen President’s hand to protect citizens

11. The Perfect Storm
Missourians
Freemasonry
Politics

12. Group 3- Freemasons Brigham Young believed in this theory
Introduction into Nauvoo
Joseph Smith- quick study
May 12th Apprentice Mason
May 13th- Craftsman Mason
May 14th- Master Mason
May 14th- Day full endowment given
Seen as “True Solomon”

13. The Perfect Storm
Missourians
Freemasonry
Politics
Apostates

14. December 1843- Porter Rockwell comes with news of a “Brutus”
Group 4- Apostates
December Porter Rockwell comes with news of a “Brutus”
City Council accusations
“a hit pidgon always flutters”

15. Blood Oaths Laws Higbees Fosters
All excommunicated in March- Started church with William Law as Prophet
Nauvoo Expositor

16. Turn off the powerpoint and, if you have it, use Virtual Historian to show the rooms in the jail and what happened in each…

17. Question How is your testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith?
What is the difference between testimony and conversion?