I didn’t know that.
Perhaps a country that picks leaders such as these, deserves to fail.
Here is where JS made the statement:
“If the people let us alone, we will preach the gospel in peace. But if they come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion with the sword. 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).
Verified by Thomas Marsh (president of the twelve):
Marsh’s statement reads:
I have heard the prophet say that he should yet tread down his enemies, and walk over their dead bodies; that if he was not let alone he would be a second Mahomet to this generation, and that he would make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean; that like Mahomet, whose motto, in treating for peace, was “the Alcoran or the Sword,” so should it be eventually with us.
“Joseph Smith or the Sword.”
(full affidavit found The Rocky Mountain Saints by T. B. H. Stenhouse (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, pp. 89-90).
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