Twenty-Eight (1833)this day, keep the peace and be of good behavior to all the citizens of the state of Ohio generally, and
to the said Joseph Smith, Jun., in particular.”
(^97) DHC, 2:46–7, 49.
(^98) The initial order called for 10,000 copies of the Book of Commandments to be printed (DHC
1:222, note (*)), which was subsequently reduced to 3,000 copies by order of council at Independence
on 1 May 1832 (DHC 1:270).
(^99) See DHC, 1:390–400; 4:25.
(^100) PGP, Articles of Faith 1:10.
(^101) This was done by the Kirtland Safety Society. See DHC, 3:113.
(^102) “Joseph Smith was occupying the room of a house brother Johnson was living in, at the
same time; it was a two story building, had steps in front. The mob surrounded the house, the twins
being afflicted with measles, Joseph was lying upon a trundle bed with one of them. The mob rushed
in, gathered up Joseph while in his bed, took him out in his night clothes, and carried him out on to
the top of the steps. ...He was daubed with tar, feathered and choked, and aquafortis poured into his
mouth. ...Sidney Rigdon, who resided near by, had been dragged by the heels out of his bed at the
same time, and his body stripped and a coat of tar and feathers applied. The next morning he was
crazy, his head greatly inflamed and lacerated. Joseph found his way in from the light of the house,
the mob having abandoned him. While he was engaged in getting off the tar by the application of
grease, soap and other materials, Philemon Duzette...came there, and seeing the Prophet in this
condition, took it as an evidence of the truth of ‘Mormonism,’ and was baptized. These circumstances
exposed the life of the child, the measles struck in and caused its death, and the whole of this
persecution was got up through the influence of those apostates;” (George A. Smith, “Historical
Discourse,” JD, 11:5–6.)
(^103) D&C, section 134.
See also, e.g., The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Section 13: “And, for extending the
fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics,
their laws and constitutions are erected” (“The Northwest Ordinance” or the “Ordinance of 1787,”
officially An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River
Ohio (New York: n.p., 1787), Section 13. This can be viewed at “Northwest Ordinance (1787),” Our
Documents, 2004, National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and
USA Freedom Corps., 29 Jan 2012 http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=8; and
U.S. Constitution, Art. IV, § 4, cl. 1: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this
Union a Republican Form of Government.”