Today, the mendacious Mormons lie and say they were terribly persecuted by the "gentiles" (non-Mormons), in every land they ever settled, because of their "religious beliefs". For the record the Mormons settled in New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and Utah, and the Mormons actually fought wars with the United States Governent in every one of these locations except for New York and Ohio. But, the REAL truth behind the Mormon's extremist history is that Joseph Smith and his Mormon theology taught that America and American Christians were "vile and decadent", that Mormons would "conquer" America and that America would be convert into the Mormon's very own "Mormon Kingdom of Zion". INCREDIBLY, the Mormons also owned slaves in New York, Ohio and Illinois at a time when slavery had been relegated to states south of the Mason-Dixon line. And, it was actually for this reason that Smith and his Mormons specifically migrated out of New York and Ohio by 1838, and into Missouri, because Missouri was a slave state.

1830 - Joseph Smith is forced to move his main contingent of Mormons out of 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 was admitted to the Union as a slave State during the "Missouri Compromise" of 1820. Smith's Missouri contingent founds the town of Independence, Missouri, which is so named to signify the Mormon’s independence from the United States of America.

1831 - Joseph Smith and his followers in Kirtland, Ohio 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” - History of the Church

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

These actual events in Mormon history, and more, are documented at Mormon Timeline