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The publication of this material disturbed many of Nauvoo's citizens, and the [[city council]], headed by Joseph Smith as a [[mayor]], responded by passing an ordinance declaring the newspaper a public nuisance designed to promote violence against Smith and his followers <ref>[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/1831_1844/nauvoo_expositor_eom.htm]</ref>. Under the council's new ordinance, Smith, as Nauvoo's mayor, in conjunction with the city council, ordered the city marshal to destroy the paper and the press on [[June 10]], [[1844]].<ref>{{cite web | title=The Destruction of the "Nauvoo Expositor"—Proceedings of the Nauvoo City Council and Mayor | url=http://byustudies2.byu.edu/hc/6/22.html}}</ref>
Charges were brought against Smith and he submitted to incarceration in [[Carthage, Illinois|Carthage]], the Hancock County seat. Smith's brother, Hyrum, and eight of his associates including [[John Taylor (1808-1887)|John Taylor]] and [[Willard Richards]], accompanied him to the jail.<ref>The six other associates that accompanied them were: John P. Greene, Stephen Markham, Dan Jones, John S. Fullmer, Dr. Southwick, and Lorenzo D. Wasson[http://byustudies2.byu.edu/hc/6/31.html]</ref> The Governor of the state, Thomas Ford, had promised protection and a fair trial.<ref>[http://byustudies2.byu.edu/hc/6/31.html]</ref> All of Smith's associates left the jail, except Richards and Taylor. Those in jail were not held in the 1st floor jail cell because the jailor felt that that was unsafe, instead, they were held in the jailors room on the 2nd floor. During this time, Joseph Smith managed to have a pistol smuggled to him by John Solomon Fullmer, a close personal friend.{{citation-needed}}
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