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"The widow SMITH
yet remains here and keeps the 'Nauvoo Mansion,' and a very good
house she keeps. There are only three or four Mormon families remaining."
"The Mormon City---The
Temple---Mob Depradations, &c. Correspondence
of the Rochester Daily Advertiser. Nauvoo, Ill., July, 9, 1847." Sympathetic
article describing the decline of Nauvoo following the exodus of the Saints,
in the ROCHESTER DAILY ADVERTISER (Rochester, New York) for
Monday morning, July 26, 1847.
Folio (24¼ X 18 inches),
[4] pages, complete issue. In very good condition; disbound with a little
raggedness to backfold. A few short, clean tears (without loss of paper or
text) do not harm the Nauvoo article.
postpaid:
$175::SOLD::
Think of it — this newspaper appeared
in the East only days after the first pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.
It carried this fresh, poignant account (evidently written for it specially
by one of its readers or friends visiting Illinois), signed merely, "Straws."
This article fills half a column on the second
page, more than eleven inches of text (of which you see less than two inches
in the enlarged detail above). This is a Mormon-friendly article, and the
anonymous writer is disgusted at how the Saints have been treated . . .
A population of fifteen thousand Mormons,
has been driven by mob violence from the country. Hundreds, yea, thousands,
of the new citizens, who were the immediate successors of the Mormons, for
supposed sympathy with the Mormons, have also been driven off, and now there
is a motley population of about two thousand only.
The constitution, the laws, individual
rights, all, all have been disregarded. A property worth millions of dollars
has been sacrificed or abandoned, because mob violence has so decreed it.
. . . . .
Although the Mormons are ostensibly driven
off for depradations committed upon the community surrounding them, they
are undoubtedly innocent of much with which they were charged—for with the
departure of the Mormons, the evils complained of have not ceased. Larcenies
are as frequent as they were before—and this leads me to think that an extensive
business that ought to come within the jurisdiction of criminal courts,
was carried on upon Mormon credit.
"The Temple is a superb
edifice," we read, ". . . completed outwardly, but within, it is
only partially finished." Is has cost $300,000 to build, but is now being
offered to "the Catholics" for a third of that sum. Farms are available at
$5-$10 per acre, "and city property can be had for almost any price."
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