AND THE MORMONS: A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SECT SELF-STYLED LATTER-DAY SAINTS. BY DANIEL P. KIDDER. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the LATTER TIMES NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY G. LANE & C. B. TIPPETT, FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE CONFERENCE J. Collord, Printer. 1845. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY JUL 1 1914 CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by G. LANE & P. P. SANDFORD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. PREFACE. Ir is due to the writer, no less than to the reader, that the circumstances which have called forth the present volume should be stated. On the 13th of Nov., 1840, I was at a place called Fulton City, on the upper waters of the Mississippi river, waiting for the descent of some steamboat in which I might take passage. About day-break the next morning a boat was hailed, and I went on board. The bustle of embarkation was hardly over before I learned that the boat was owned and principally manned by Mormons, being called Nauvoo. It moreover carried Joseph Smith, Jr., in the character of passenger; although in reality he was chief director of the whole concern. peared that among the multitudes drawn together at the Mormon settlements in the west, were a number of individuals more or less acquainted with navigation. In order that their talent might not be unemployed, Smith and his coadjutors had purchased a steamboat, and commenced running it on the river for purposes of speculation, and also doubtless with a view to accommodating their colony at Nauvoo. On It ap |