Mormon Timeline: 1805 to 1857

Timeline of the Mormon Religion - 1805 to 1857

Members of the Mormon religion have been planning and executing attacks against “gentile” America since 1830 when it was officially organized as the “Church of Christ” in upstate New York, and ever since Joseph Smith prophesied America would one-day become a “Mormon Kingdom of Zion”. Incredibly, the timeline of the Mormon religion presented below is not only historically accurate it is 100% true.

1805	On December 23, 1805, the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith is Born in Sharon, Vermont.
1820	The “Missouri Compromise” of 1820 establishes the Mason-Dixon Line as the official boundary between the “northern” and “southern” states of America. Implicit in the “Missouri Compromise” is the concept that the institution of slavery is prohibited in states situated north of the Mason-Dixon line. However, the Mason-Dixon line runs through the lower half of Missouri, and is admitted into the union as a “northern” state, but slavery is still allowed there.
1830	Even thought the “Mormon religious movement” had been going on for years, The Mormon religion is officially organized as the “Church of Christ” in Fayette, New York on April 6, 1830.
1830	The Mormons are forced out of New York State because they own slaves in the northern state of New York, because they teach that America will eventually become a Mormon Kingdom of Zion and because of other issues that escalate tensions between Mormons and non-Mormons around Palmyra, Fayette and Manchester, New York.
1830	Joseph Smith begins moving his main contingent of Mormons from New York to Kirtland, Ohio, and strategically sends a second smaller contingent of Mormons to settle in western Missouri, specifically because Missouri is a “northern state, but still allows slavery. This Missouri contingent founds the town of Independence, Missouri, which is named to signify the Mormon’s independence from the United States of America.
1831	Joseph Smith and his followers are very concerned about slavery being prohibited in the northern states when the issue of slavery is brought up in Congress. Joseph Smith’s belief that slavery is a “divine institution” is documented in this passage from History of the Church: “…this was but one of a series of such petitions from New England which Mr. Adams presented to the House of Representatives. In fact upon his entrance as a member of the House, in 1831, (following his term of President of the United states) he had begun an agitation of the slavery question in congress”
1831	After being forced out of New York, an angry Joseph Smith writes his first prophecy about September 11th on September 10, 1831 while in Kirtland, Ohio. Smith writes his prophecy in the “Doctrine and Covenants”, where Smith documents all of his prophesies. “For after today cometh the burning for verily I say, tomorrow all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as stubble; and I will burn them up, for I am the Lord of Hosts; and I will not spare any that remain in Babylon.”
1832	Mormons begin moving in large numbers to Jackson County, Missouri, and begin appropriating lands from the non-Mormons who previously settled there. Further, this same Missouri contingent of Mormons becomes embroiled in controversy and violence, which begins escalating after Smith publishes a newspaper article in Independence, Missouri that states, “…the riches of the Gentiles have been consecrated unto my people who are of the House of Israel”.
1832	Smith’s Missouri contingent of Mormons are forced to move out of Jackson County, Missouri because of the escalating violence around Independence. They move to the counties that are adjacent to Jackson County, and are initially welcomed by the “gentile” inhabitants of those counties who try to help them.
1832	In Kirtland, Joseph Smith begins receiving revelations from God that sanction the idea of multiple wives.
1834	Smith’s Missouri Mormons who were forced out of Jackson County begin regrouping and devising a plan to reclaim the properties they were forced to leave behind in Jackson County, Missouri in 1832. Further, the Mormons in Clay County establish an armory where they begin making swords, knives, pistols, and repairing rifles and shotguns.
1834	During this time-period, Joseph Smith begins adding principles of Islam to his Mormon religion. Key Islamic principles that Smith begins to add include polygamy and a Mormon version of Sharia law called, “The Doctrine of the Gospel versus the Law”. Also, during this time period, God also restores the “Melchizedek Priesthood” to Joseph Smith via the Mormon angel Moroni. The Melchizedek Priesthood is the physical embodiment of the Mormon version of Sharia Law, and makes all Mormon males gods in their own right who are now able to circumvent Man’s laws as they see fit. Notice that Mormon theology claims the Mormon Melchizedek Priesthood is superior to the laws Moses (the Christian Religion’s 10-commandments). The following passages that pertain to “The Doctrine of the Gospel versus the Law” are taken from History of the Church. “…Paul's great controversy with the Christian Jews was in relation to the superiority of the Gospel to the law of Moses. Many of the Christian Jews while accepting Jesus of Nazareth as the promised Messiah, still held to the law with something like superstitious reverence, and could not be persuaded that the Gospel superseded the law, and was, in fact, a fulfillment of all its types and symbols. This controversy culminated in Paul's now celebrated letter to the Galatians…” “…Speaking of the Melchizedek Priesthood and its powers in administering the ordinances of the Gospel, and how it came to disappear as an organization in Israel, the passage in question says: This greater Priesthood administereth the Gospel and holdeth the key of the mysteries of the kingdom, even the key of the knowledge of God. Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest. And without the ordinances thereof, and the authority of the Priesthood, the power of godliness is not manifest unto men in the flesh: for without this no man can see the face of God, even the Father, and live…” “…Now this Moses plainly taught to the children of Israel in the wilderness and sought diligently to sanctify his people that they might behold the face of God; but they hardened their hearts and could not endure his presence; therefore, the Lord in his wrath, for his anger was kindled against them, swore that they should not enter into his rest while in the wilderness, which rest is the fulness of his glory. Therefore he took Moses out of their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also; and the lesser Priesthood continued, which Priesthood holdeth the key of the ministering of angels and the preparatory Gospel; which Gospel is the Gospel of repentance and of baptism, and the remission of sins, and the law of carnal commandments, which the Lord in his wrath, caused to continue with the house of Aaron among the children of Israel until John, whom God raised up, being filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb; for he was baptized while he was yet in his childhood, and was ordained by the angel of God at the when he was eight days old unto this power to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews, and to make straight the way of the Lord before the fate of his people, to prepare them for the coming of the Lord, in whose hand is given all power…”
1836	Joseph Smith and his main contingent of Mormons in Kirtland, Ohio are visited by Federal agents who remind them that slavery is banned in States north of the Mason-Dixon line. But, slavery and polygamy are not only the only two reasons for the escalating conflict between Mormons and non-Mormons during this period of time in Kirtland. Smith is angered at being admonished by Federal Agents who are abolitionists, and writes a letter that is published in April of 1836 in the Messenger and Advocate, a Mormon Newspaper. DEAR SIR: —This place (Kirtland) having recently been visited by a gentleman who advocated the principles or doctrines of those who are called ABOLITIONISTS, and his presence having created an interest in that subject, if you deem the following reflections of any service, or think they will have a tendency to correct the opinions of the Southern public,...you are at liberty to give them publicity... I FEAR that the sound might go out, that 'an Abolitionist' had held forth several times to this community,...all, except a very few, attended to their own vocations, and left the gentleman to hold forth his own arguments to nearly naked walls. I am aware that many, who PROFESS to preach the Gospel, complain against their brethren of the same faith, who reside in the South, and are ready to withdraw the hand of fellowship, because they will not renounce the principle of slavery, and raise their voice against every thing of the kind. This must be a tender point, and one which should call forth the candid reflections of all men, and more especially before they advance in an opposition calculated to lay waste the fair states of the South, and let loose upon the world a community of people, who might, peradventure, OVERRUN OUR COUNTRY, AND VIOLATE THE MOST SACRED PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN SOCIETY, CHASTITY AND VIRTUE.... I do not believe that the people of the North have any more right to say that the South shall not hold slaves, than the South have to say the North shall. How any community can ever be excited with the CHATTER of such persons, boys and others, who are too indolent to obtain their living by honest industry, and are incapable of pursuing any occupation of a professional nature, is unaccountable to me; and when I see persons in the free states, signing documents against slavery, it is no less, in my mind, than an army of influence, and a DECLARATION OF HOSTILITIES, against the people of the South. What course can sooner divide our union? After having expressed myself so freely upon this subject, I do not doubt, but those who have been forward in raising their voices against the South, will cry out against me as being uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, and wholly unacquainted with the Gospel of Christ...the first mention we have of slavery is found in the Holy Bible,...And so far from that prediction being averse to the mind of God, it remains as a lasting monument of the DECREE OF JEHOVAH, to the shame and confusion of all who HAVE CRIED OUT against the South, in consequence of their holding the sons of Ham in SERVITUDE. I can say, the CURSE IS NOT YET TAKEN OFF FROM THE SONS OF CANAAN, neither will be until it is affected by as great a power as caused it to come; and the people who INTERFERE THE LEAST WITH THE PURPOSES OF GOD in this matter, will come under the LEAST CONDEMNATION BEFORE HIM; and those who are determined to pursue a course, which shows an opposition, and a feverish restlessness against the DECREES OF THE LORD, will learn, when perhaps it is too late for their own good, that God can do his own work, without the aid of those who are not dictated by His counsel. Joseph Smith
1836	Using deposits from his Kirtland Safety Society Bank, which is being illegally operated without a state charter, Joseph Smith hires a band of mercenaries to go to Missouri and fight along side his Missouri contingent of Mormons who by now are embroiled in the “The Missouri War”. Brigham Young is hired at this time, and becomes the leader of this band of mercenaries, which also becomes known as the “danites” and “Smith’s Avenging Angels”. The “danites” also becomes Joseph Smith’s secret police, and the enforcement arm of the Mormon religion.
1836	Just before the Missouri conflict turns into a full fledged war in 1836, Joseph Smith writes a letter to Lyman Wight, his chief military commander in Missouri, wherein he states, “September 11, 1836, “…is the appointed time for the redemption of Zion”.
1838	The Mormons are very concerned about slavery being prohibited in the northern states when the question of slavery is once again brought up in Congress. Joseph Smith’s firm belief in the “divine institution” of slavery is documented in this passage from History of the Church: “…In 1838 a set of resolutions was adopted in the House by a vote of 146 to 52, in which, among other things, it was "Resolved. that petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and territories of the United States, and against the removal of slaves from one state to another, was part of the plan of operation set on foot to affect the institution of slavery in the southern states and thus tending, indirectly, to destroy that institution within their limits…”
1838	In Kirtland, Smith escapes from Ohio in the dead of night after absconding with all of the funds that remain in his Kirtland Safety Society Bank’s main vault. Smith and what is left of his main contingent of Kirtland Mormons leave to reunite with Smith’s Missouri contingent of Mormons who are now embroiled in a war with the United States of America and is known as the ”Missouri War”.
1838	Joseph Smith arrives in Missouri and unified his Ohio Mormons with the Missouri Mormons and declares to his united followers, “…this is the land of your inheritance, which is now the land of your enemies", and, “I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was “the Koran or the Sword”, so shall it eventually be with us, “the church or the sword”. During the Mormon’s 1838, 4th of July celebration, church leader Sidney Rigdon further incites, “…it shall be between us and them a war of extermination; for we will follow them until the last drop of their blood is spilled, or else they will have to exterminate us.”
1838	In order to fulfill his own prophetic vision of a Mormon Kingdom of Zion in America, Joseph Smith orders his Mormon military, under the leadership of Lyman Wight, to attack the Missouri State Militia at Crooked River on October 24th, 1838.
1838	In retaliation for the Mormon’s attack at Crooked River, the Missouri State Militia attacks the Mormon’s Haun’s Mill settlement on October 30th, which the church ironically refers to today as the “Haun’s Mill massacre”.
1838	Because of the escalating violence, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs is forced to issue an executive order demanding for all Mormons to leave the State of Missouri. Today, Mormons ironically refer to this order as the “The Extermination Order”, even though it was Mormons themselves who first used the term “extermination” during their 1838 4th of July celebration, where Sidney Rigdon referred to a Mormon “war of extermination” against the gentiles.
1838	On October 14, 1838, Joseph Smith proclaims he will be a “second Muhammad” and makes the following statement during the “Missouri War”. “…We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood…from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I will be to this generation a 2nd Muhammad, whose motto in treating for peace was “the Al-Qur’an or the sword”. So shall it be with us — “Joseph Smith or the sword” (History of the Church, Vol. 3, p. 167).”
1838	Joseph Smith is arrested for treason against the United States (the first time), and is placed in jailed at Liberty, Missouri; but, Smith manages to bribe his jailors, escape and leads what remains of his Mormons to Illinois where they found Nauvoo, also known as “Industry”.
1839	In “Daniel’s Prophecy of the Rise of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days”, Mormon prophecy teaches that the “Church” originally founded by Jesus Christ and his apostles, or the “Christian Church”, is not really the fulfillment of Daniel’s great prophecy of the true Kingdom of God, which God promised to restore in the last days. And, between 1835 and 1839, Orson Pratt, one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles under Joseph Smith states: “…But who in this generation have authority to baptize? None but those who have received authority in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints: all other churches are entirely destitute of all authority from God; and any person who receives Baptism or the Lord’s supper from their hands will highly offend God, for he looks upon them as the most corrupt of all people. Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the “whore of Babylon” whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. And any person who shall be so wicked as to receive a holy ordinance of the gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent of the unholy and impious act”. Orson Pratt, (The Seer, page. 255, 1854). Orson Pratt (The Seer, p. 205, 1854) “…Who founded the Roman Catholic Church? The Devil, through the medium of Apostates, who subverted the whole order of God by denying immediate revelation, and substituting in the place thereof, tradition and ancient revelations as a sufficient rule of faith and practice. But did not the first Protestant Reformers receive their ordination and authority from the Catholics? Yes: and in this manner they received all the authority that their mother church was in possession of; and the mother having derived her authority from the Devil, could only impart that which his Satanic majesty was pleased to bestow upon her”.
1841	Because of the Missouri War, and being forced out of Ohio and New York, Joseph Smith forms a contingent of Mormon Leaders and leads them to Washington, DC for the purpose of seeking redress of grievances from the United States Government. But, Smith and his Mormons find no sympathy, nor do they obtain any redress from the United States Government.
1842	A very angry Joseph Smith returns to Nauvoo, Illinois and begins actively espousing the complete overthrow of the United States Government. Smith writes his prophesy of the “Doctrine of the Constitution Hanging by a Thread”: “You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,...will have gathered in strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... The whole of America will be made the Zion of God.”
1842	Smith begins forming the Nauvoo Legion, which is said to be a “100,000 man army” whose purpose it is to overthrow the Government of the United States.
1843	Smith forms the secret “Council of Fifty” whose purpose it is to oversee the conversion of America into Smith’s Mormon Kingdom of Zion. Joseph Smith also proclaims himself “King of Zion”, which holds dominion over the United States, appoints Brigham Young as the new President of the United States and other Church leaders as the Governors of America’s other states and territories.
1843	Joseph Smith reveals his prophecy known as, “Daniel’s Prophecy of the Rise of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days”. The prophecy teaches that the “Church” that was originally founded by Jesus Christ and his apostles, or the “Christian Church”, is not really the fulfillment of Daniel’s great prophecy of the true Kingdom of God, which God promised to restore in the last days. This little-known Mormon prophecy teaches that there will be another “dispensation” of the “Church” that will come after the “dispensation” of the “Christian Church”, that this new dispensation will culminate in the “conquering of the Kingdom of America and all of the other kingdoms of the World”, and that these conquered kingdoms will become vassals of the Mormon Kingdom of Elohim, and his Christ. Perhaps this explains why Joseph Smith proclaimed himself “King of Zion”, and plotted to gain control over the U.S. Government.
1843	Joseph Smith restores God’s ancient Melchizedek Priesthood unto all Mormon males. Smith teaches that the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood is the fulfillment of Daniel’s great prophecy of the true Kingdom of God, which God promised to restore in the last days, in accordance with the secret Mormon prophecy “Daniel’s Prophecy of the Rise of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days”. This single act makes all Mormon males Gods in their own right and gives them the ability to circumvent man’s laws, as they deem necessary. Mormon theology also teaches that the transformation of America into the Mormon Kingdom of Zion is prophesied due to the vile and decadent nature of the Christian “gentile”.
1843	Smith’s prophesy of “Daniel” also teaches that Mormons are living in the “last days” and formally changes the official name of his church to “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” from the “Church of Christ”.
1843	In order to gain legitimate control over the United States Government, Joseph Smith “condescends” to run for the presidency of the United States. Smith considers this an act of condescension because he is already the “King of Zion”, which already holds dominion over the United States of America. George Miller, a member of the Council of Fifty, writes: “If we succeeded in making a majority of the voters convert to our faith, and elected Joseph president, in such an event the dominion of the Kingdom would be forever established in the United States; and if not successful, we could fall back on Texas, and be a kingdom notwithstanding”
1844	William Law, an ex-member of Smith First Presidency, founds the Nauvoo Expositor, a daily newspaper that is not sympathetic to the beliefs of Joseph Smith. On June 7, 1844, William Law prints the first and only edition of the Nauvoo Expositor after suspecting that Smith has made improper overtures towards his wife. Law’s first and only edition of the Expositor exposes Smith’s polygamous dalliances, and brings attention to the house of abortion known to be adjacent to the city of Nauvoo, where it is said many of the town’s maidens who are duped into celestial polygamous marriages by Smith and his band of pedophiles, have their abortions done.
1844	On June 8, 1844, Joseph Smith, also the Mayor of Nauvoo, calls a special session of the city council and declares the Nauvoo Expositor to be a public nuisance. Soon thereafter, a mob loyal to Smith completely destroys the Expositor’s offices and printing presses.
1844	The Nauvoo Expository incident greatly enrages the non-Mormon citizens in and around Nauvoo who do not agree with the Mormon’s bizarre religious beliefs and social practices, and view the destruction of the Expositor as a violation of the Constitutional principles of “Freedom of the Press”. This ignites a furious backlash against Smith and his Mormons, and the ensuing violence is so intense that Smith feels compelled to declare martial law in order to quell the escalating violence in and around Nauvoo.
1844	The escalating violence in and around Nauvoo resulting from the destruction of the Expositor and Smith’s efforts to overthrow the Government of the Unites States causes Governor Ford of Illinois to travel to Nauvoo to issue a warrant for his arrest. Smith crosses the Mississippi River and escapes to the western territories outside the boundaries of the United States at the time. But, Smith is eventually persuaded to come back to Nauvoo where he is arrested for treason against the Unites States and placed in Jail at nearby Carthage. This is Smith’s second arrest for treason in 6-years.
1844	On June 27, 1844, Smith and his brother are killed in a gunfight, which ensues after sympathetic Mormons smuggle guns to Smith and his brother while they are still in jail at Carthage. Later, all of the special city-charters granted to Smith and his Mormons by the Illinois State Legislature are revoked, and Governor Ford gives the Mormons until the end of 1845 to leave Illinois altogether.
1845	After much infighting by different factions within the Mormon Church, Brigham Young wins the struggle to become the next Mormon prophet against his many rivals who also claim to be the legitimate heir to Joseph Smith’s Kingdom of Zion. Then, Young leads what remains of the Nauvoo Mormons outside of the western boarders of the United States to form their own sovereign nation outside of America, which will be called Deseret
1845	Brigham Young, the new Mormon prophet, mandates for every Mormon to pledge the following oath of vengeance against America because of the conflict in New York, Ohio, Missouri and now Illinois. "You do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, his holy angels, and these witnesses, that you will avenge the blood of Joseph Smith upon this nation; and so teach your children; and that you will from this day henceforth and forever begin and carry out hostility against this nation, and keep the same a profound secret now and ever. So help you God." Every Mormon in the world passing through the Mormon Church’s temple endowment ceremony will pledge this Mormon oath of vengeance against America until 1927.
1846	On May 13, 1846 the United States declares war with Mexico, primarily over the disputed Republic of Texas.
1847	In July of 1847, Brigham Young and his Mormons arrive in the pristine lands that border along the Great Salt Lake, and began surveying the desert valleys that surrounding its shores. After completing the survey, Young proclaims, "This is the right place." However, it is documented that Young and his Mormons actually planned to go to California or Oregon, and that Young mistakenly thought the Great Salt Lake was the Pacific Ocean because of the salinity content of the lake. At the time the Mormons begin settling this area, the lands are owned by Mexico.
1848	On February 2, 1848 the Mexican War ends with signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which cedes the Mexican lands that are now New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California to the United States.
1848	Brigham Young, the Mormon Prophet, also becomes the President of the Mormon theocratic nation of Deseret, which claims parts of what are now Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, all of Utah, most of Nevada and Arizona and a huge portion of California. Young and the Mormon citizens of Deseret view their Country as an independent sovereign nation that is separate from America, its Judeo-Christian laws and its Christian culture. Until the end of the Mexican War, Deseret is situated on lands belonging to Mexico, but now Brigham Young now finds himself the President of a Country situated on lands that officially belong to the United States. Salt Lake City is nation’s thriving capital of Deseret.
1849	During a convention for statehood in Washington, DC, the Mormons formally propose to Congress that their huge State of Deseret be admitted as their own state, propose for the new state to be called “Deseret” and ask for the approval of their existing government, which the Mormons already have in place.
1850	Congress does not accept the admission of “Deseret” as a State, refuses to allow the name “Deseret” and passes a bill that creates the much smaller territory of “Utah”, which is named after the tribe of Native Americans that inhabits the area. One of the reasons cited for not being granted statehood is that “Deseret” lacks the 60,000 eligible voters required for statehood. But, as a compromise, on September 20, 1850, Congress appoints Brigham Young as the new Territorial Governor of Utah, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The Utah Territory is now also the only slave territory in the western territories of the United States.
1851	The few Federal officials that have been commissioned to the Utah Territory leave their Utah appointments out of fear for their own physical safety. These same officials report to Congress in Washington, DC that the Mormons in Utah are in a state of rebellion against the United States and have formed an army that will be used to forge an independent kingdom (The Nauvoo Legion is now already in Utah).
1852	On January 23, 1852, Brigham Young instructs Utah Legislature to legalize slavery and states, “…We must believe in slavery”.
1853	The Federal Government desires a transcontinental railroad that will link the Midwest to the Pacific. Government officials also view the railroad as a means of diluting the concentration of Mormons in the Utah Territory. Towards this goal, United States Army officer John William Gunnison is charged with surveying the right-of-way for the proposed railway in the western territories.
1853	On October 26, 1853, Gunnison and all seven of his men are killed, and their bodies are found mutilated after allegedly being attacked by a band of Pahvant Indians. During this same time period, Mormons are known to behead, scalp, castrate and perform other acts of mutilation on their “gentile” enemies. According to Brigham Young, the Indians are to blame, but Gunnison’s wife believes the Mormons are actually to blame for this act of terrorism. And, there are also rumors of white men, dressed as Indians, who are involved in the incident.
1853	Brigham Young is persuaded by railroad executives to help recruit workers for the construction of the transcontinental railroad. Young sees this as an opportunity to prosper personally, and to help bring prosperity to the citizens of Deseret who are mired in an economic malaise caused by plagues of grasshoppers (Mormon crickets) that have decimated crops in the Utah Territory during this period of time.
1854	U.S. President Franklin Pierce appoints William W. Drummond to the Utah Territorial Supreme Court. After traveling to Utah, where there has never before been a Federal judge, Drummond reports that Brigham Young and the theocratic laws of Mormonism have set aside the rule of Federal law, that Mormons are ignoring the laws of Congress and the Constitution of the United States and that the only law the Mormons acknowledge is the law of the Melchizedek priesthood. Drummond immediately declares the Mormon Probate Courts illegal because Mormons are using them to circumvent the Federal authority of the United States. Drummond also further reviews the circumstances surrounding the 1853 Gunnison Massacre, and actually adjudicates several of the cases that relate to the massacre.
1854	The Republican Party is founded in Wisconsin on the platform of obliterating the twin relics of polygamy and slavery in the lands of America.
1855	Political tensions begin to increase between the Mormons of the Utah Territory and Congress. Reasons for this include the decaying relationship with Native Americans who are taught by Mormons to differentiate between "Americans" and "Mormons", because Mormons refuse to accept the concept of American Common Law or recognize the criminal jurisdiction of Probate Courts (Mormons used ecclesiastical church-courts rather than the federal court system for civil matters), because Mormons refuse to recognize the legitimacy of American land titles or water rights and because the security of the U.S. mail being transported through the Utah Territory via Mormon contract mail carrier is being violated. As a result, President Franklin Pierce secretly calls for the removal of Brigham Young as Territorial Governor and covertly sends Colonel Edward J. Steptoe to replace him. Colonel Steptoe, along with the few “gentile” members of the Utah government, later lobby Washington for the retention of Young as Territorial Governor, and Pierce agrees.
1856	The Pipe Springs area of Northern Arizona begins being settled by Mormons after Jacob Hamblin founds the settlement of Pipe Springs. Hamblin is the Indian emissary for the Mormon nation of Deseret, and recognizes that the surrounding grasslands will be excellent for raising cattle. Later, Brigham Young who is traveling east from St. George, Utah to inspect the Pipe Springs area is said to have proclaimed, “This will someday be the head and not the tail of the Church. These will be the granaries of the Saints”. The area also becomes the headquarters of the Church’s cattle ranching operations, known as “the church heard”
1857	On March 30, 1857, Judge Drummond resigns his position as Justice of the Utah Supreme Court due to constant interference from Brigham Young and those loyal to him. In his official resignation, Drummond charges the Mormon Church with murder, destruction of federal court records, harassment of federal officers and slandering the Federal Government. Drummond concludes his resignation by urging President Buchanan appoint a new Territorial Governor who is not a member of the Mormon Church and to send sufficient military aid to enforce the New Governor’s rule. Excerpts of Judge Drummond’s letter of resignation are included blow: “…Again: That after Moroni Green had been convicted in the district court before my colleague, Judge Kinney, of an assault with intent to commit murder, and afterwards, on appeal to the supreme court, the judgment being affirmed and the said Green being sentenced to the penitentiary, Brigham Young gave a full pardon to the said Green before he reached the penitentiary; also, that the said Governor Young pardoned a man by the name of Baker, who had been tried and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, for the murder of a dumb boy by the name of White House, the proof showing one of the most aggravated cases of murder that I ever knew being tried; and to insult the court and government officers, this man Young took this pardoned criminal with him, in proper person, to church on the next Sabbath after his conviction; Baker, in the meantime, having received a full pardon from Governor Brigham Young. These two men were Mormons.” “On the other hand, I charge the Mormons, and Governor Young in particular, with imprisoning five or six young men from Missouri and Iowa, who are now in the penitentiary of Utah, without those men having violated any criminal law in America. But they were anti-Mormons -- poor, uneducated young men on their way for California; but because they emigrated from Illinois, Iowa, or Missouri, and passed by Great Salt Lake City, they were indicted by a probate court, and most brutally and inhumanly dealt with, in addition to being summarily incarcerated in the saintly prison of the Territory of Utah. I also charge Governor Young with constantly interfering with the federal courts, directing the Grand Jury whom to indict and whom not; and after the Judges charge the Grand Juries as to their duties, that this man Young invariably has some member of the Grand Jury advised in advance as to his will in relation to their labors, and that his charge thus given is the only charge known, obeyed, or received by all the Grand Juries of the federal courts of Utah Territory.” “…In conclusion, sir, I have to say that, in my career as Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah territory, I have the consolation of knowing that I did my duty; that neither threats nor intimidations drove me from that pat; upon the other hand, I am pained to say that I accomplished little good while there; that the judiciary is only treated as a farce. The only rule of law by which the infatuated followers of this curious people will be governed, is the law of the church, and that emanates from Governor Brigham Young, and him alone.” “Thirdly, I am fully aware that there is a set of men, set apart by special order of the Church, to take both the lives and property of persons who may question the authority of the church, (the names of whom I will promptly make known at a future time).” Drummond, in the 3rd point to his letter, also references the danites, which constitute the Mormon Church’s secret police: “Thirdly, I am fully aware that there is a set of men, set apart by special order of the Church, to take both the lives and property of persons who may question the authority of the church, (the names of whom I will promptly make known at a future time).”

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