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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845

1 March 1845 • Saturday, continued Page 1 4 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 32 11 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 77 18 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 131 22 March 1845 • Saturday Page 181 25 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 231 5 April 1845 • Saturday Page 266 11 April 1845 • Friday Page 267 15 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 327 22 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 349 29 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 355 6 May 1845 • Tuesday Page 361

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injury, when at the same time our papers were stopped and could not get into the Legislature. He was in favor of publishing the farewell to Rigdonism in our papers and of sending our branches papers to all the branches of the church, and put a club into the hands of the Saints to repel Rigdonism with. He dont think it will do any hurt to publish the history in our papers.
Coun. said has saint [sent] his papers to every governor and Legislature in the , and they love to feast on it. Let them alone and Rigdonism will soon die of itself, and he dont think it necessary to take any notice of the governors nor legislatures to gratify them with any such things.
Coun. said he had many applications to publish articles on Rigdonism but he has [p. [206]]
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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
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Total Pages
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Footnotes

  1. [299]

    Almon Babbitt made similar claims at the 1 March 1845 council meeting. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 1 Mar. 1845.)

  2. [300]

    It is unclear whether Rigdon’s Latter Day Saint’s Messenger and Advocate was sent to every governor and legislature in the United States as John Smith stated. However, Rigdon’s charges of polygamy and other accusations made in the paper were picked up by the national press and published across the country. (See, for example, “Sydney Rigdon,” Daily National Intelligencer [Washington DC], 14 Feb. 1845, [4]; “Mormonism—Shocking Disclosures,” Cleveland Herald, 19 Feb. 1845, [3]; and “Sydney Rigdon,” Greenville [SC] Mountaineer, 7 Mar. 1845, [3].)

    Daily National Intelligencer. Washington DC. 1800–1869.

    Cleveland Herald. Cleveland. 1843–1853.

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