Sidney Rigdon preached and called upon the LDS "Gideonites" to "drive out the dissenters." Joseph Smith spoke of a new Church organization plan, saying that any who criticized the heads of the Church should be driven over the prairies like deer by a pack of hounds. This Rigdon speech is often confused with his so-called "Salt Sermon" of July 4th.
[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
The dates are not correct. SR's "Trample the Dissenters" speech and his "Salt Sermon" were one in the same and given on Sunday June 17. SR's speech on Wednesday July 4th was his "War of Extermination" speech.
ReplyDelete[Source: SR: Portrait of Religious Excess, by RS Van Wagoner, pp.217-221]