Contingent CitizensPub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0010
{"title":"A Snake in the Sugar","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter talks about the remarkable partnership and political alliance between the Mormon Church and the Sugar Trust that was intended for the domination of the beet sugar business of America. It mentions Judson Welliver, an essayist for Hampton's Magazine, who wrote the most startling revelation of the power of Mormonism and of the business intrigue and political inside workings of the Sugar Trust. The chapter looks into Welliver's article that outlines how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was a dangerous political power. It describes the Mormon church's influence that forced senators from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, and Nevada to uphold the sugar tariff. It describes the suspicion on how the Latter-day Saints had used beet sugar to gain complete economic and political dominance over the American West through the mechanism of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121362976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contingent CitizensPub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0007
{"title":"“Like a Swarm of Locusts”","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter talks about Lieutenant Washington Bartlett of the USS Portsmouth, who believed that the two hundred Mormon seafaring migrants that arrived in San Francisco presaged a much larger overland Mormon migration from Nauvoo, Illinois. It describes Bartlett's doubt of Sam Brannan's American patriotism and the patriotism of other Mormon leaders like Brigham Young. It also looks into Bartlett's comparison of the Mormons to a “swarm of locusts” and a “vast horde” that reveals his perception of Mormons as a very real geopolitical threat, whose arrival in California would irrevocably ruin the territory's potential prosperity. The chapter examines Bartlett's fear of the Mormon arrival that reflected the fact that he made no presumption about US sovereignty over California. It discusses how Mormon leaders understood the contingency of western geopolitics.","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131341071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contingent CitizensPub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0009
{"title":"Political Perceptions of Mormon Polygamy and the Struggle for Utah Statehood, 1847–1896","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the culture war being waged by the federal government against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It describes how Mormons were typically characterized as representatives of systems and practices that were quintessentially un-American or even anti-American. It also recounts the admission of Utah as the forty-fifth state of the Union in 1896, which was a momentous occasion for both the Mormon church and the United States. The chapter focuses on polygamy as one of the reasons for the unprecedented delay of Utah's admission as a state. It analyzes the religious doctrine of plural marriage that was openly practiced by Mormons from 1852 to 1890, which was unanimously disapproved by members of Congress and American citizens in general.","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125490096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"8. Political Perceptions of Mormon Polygamy and the Struggle for Utah Statehood, 1847–1896","authors":"S. Smith","doi":"10.1515/9781501716744-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501716744-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114591353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contingent CitizensPub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0005
{"title":"“The Woman’s Movement Has Discovered a New Enemy—the Mormon Church”","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter talks about the woman's movement that considered the Mormon church as a new enemy because of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). It illustrates the Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ's sudden and successful political mobilization against the ERA ratification that caught the country by surprise. It examines how ERA proponents reacted to and interacted with the Mormon church during the ERA ratification process, which elucidates the power of the church's political influence in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The chapter discusses how the Mormon church's successful mobilization pushed ERA supporters, specifically the National Organization for Women (NOW), to wholly reconceptualize parts of their own mobilization. It recounts the clear success of the anti-ERA Mormon counterforce due to their ability to reach people on the local level.","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115133125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contingent CitizensPub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0008
{"title":"“In the Style of an Independent Sovereign”","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501716737.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter talks about municipal and territorial authorities that declared martial law within the United States, in which two occurrences involved members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1840s and 1850s. It investigates Mormon cases that are set against the context of contemporaneous debates about martial law that illuminate antebellum power politics. It also analyzes the perception of Latter-day Saints and minority groups in general during the era of American political culture. The chapter discusses the duality of the rhetoric surrounding martial law, which elucidates a shifting American mindset that clung to the revolutionary-era ideology invested in a weak government. It describes the tensions among local, state, and federal governments that deal with martial law declarations and reveal the fragility of sovereignty in antebellum America.","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126681434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7. “In the Style of an Independent Sovereign”: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Mormon Martial Law Proclamations in American Political Culture","authors":"Brent M. Rogers","doi":"10.1515/9781501716744-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501716744-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122391444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"6. “Like a Swarm of Locusts”: Perceptions of Mormon Geopolitical Power in a Non-US West, 1844–1848","authors":"Thomas H. Richards","doi":"10.1515/9781501716744-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501716744-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129693742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. “The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard”: The Black Hawk and Mormon Wars in the Construction of Illinois Political Culture, 1832–1846","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501716744-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501716744-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426031,"journal":{"name":"Contingent Citizens","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127064029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}