
Joshua Abraham Norton (First American Emperor, Emperor Norton)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
The Emperor Norton's Decrees on Spiritualism
In the Pacific appeal, he published a proclamation that stated, Take three little ropes, red, white, and blue, and they will hang Catholic Protestant or Jew. I also found a decree from the Pacific appeal in which he said that, The emperor wants but one church in all his dominions. However, I'm not sure what this means because he didn't elaborate on it. Perhaps it was a kind of long-term ecumenical goal,. His clear concrete decrees were about churches getting along together in the here and now. Though, I did find one group that he did not seem to favor, which was the spiritualist church. We'll be talking more about the Fox sisters
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