No Place for Saints by Adam Jortner

Author:Adam Jortner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

None of this violence stemmed the continued illegal occupation of Indian lands by whites, which continued until the federal government bowed to white demands and opened all Indian territory in Missouri to white settlement.44 Anti-Mormon writers openly played on this fear, informing readers that Mormons planned to exhort Native Americans to violence; Mormons encouraged Indians, these reports claimed, to “expel the white inhabitants.”45 When E. D. Howe wrote of Mormons combining with Native Americans against Missouri’s whites, he suggested that “Gen. Black Hawk” would join them. An eastern newspaper noted that “the same spirit of injustice which impelled the borderers to destroy the property and seize upon the possessions of the Sauk Indians, has now induced a series of attacks upon the unoffending Mormons.” Fears of Mormons became attached to anti-Indian rhetoric on a violent frontier crisscrossed by soldiers and refugees.46

Anti-Catholic riots, 1844. Days of Catholic-Protestant rioting convulsed Philadelphia in July 1844. Fifteen people were killed and a Catholic church destroyed. Image from John B. Perry, A Full and Complete Account of the Late Awful Riots in Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1844). The Library Company of Philadelphia.

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