1844 06 14 Washington Daily National Intelligencer Mormonite Convention

Mormonite Convention

Washington Daily National Intelligencer 14 June 1844

There was a meeting at Military Hall, Bowery, (New York city) on Tuesday night, which was called for the purpose of advancing the claims of Joe Smith, of Nauvoo, the leader of the sect called Mormonites, or "Latter Day Saints" to the Presidency of the United States. The attendance was small, some fifty men, twenty women, and a few boys composing the whole number of those present, and of these a great many left the hall, with every symptom of disgust, long before the proceedings terminated. Two brothers, by the name of Pratt, both originally from New York, but more recently from Missouri, made speeches, strongly denunciatory of Mr. Van Buren, Mr. Clay, the principal characters of the nation, and of Missouri, all of whom were called murderers and robbers, and in comparison with whom Joe Smith, the Mormon prophet, was alone worthy of being entrusted with the government of the country. Twelve delegates were appointed to a convention to be held at Utica on the 23d of next August.