the repeal of the charters, which had been altered so as to change the sense. He said he had thought there must be a wrong somewhere in publishing the same peices in both papers; he had thought it would be advisable to put both papers in one, but this was objected to. He knows the station of an editor is a responsible and perplexing one, and if we take away the right of an editor to select what he shall see proper the paper would go down.
The said had said he (the ) had complained more than others; when he had any thing to say he complained face to face, but dont; if was away in he would talk hard about brother and but he dare not do it here. As to brother & , there is not two [p. [236]]
An election was held on 3 February 1845 to select new officers for the city of Nauvoo, whose charter had just been repealed by the Illinois legislature. In the absence of official notice of repeal, church leaders decided to proceed with the elections. The candidates for the election had been chosen at a meeting of church and civic officials on 8 January; the Twelve Apostles served as a nominating committee and selected candidates for mayor, aldermen, and city councilors. The candidates were accepted by a public meeting on 14 January. Hosea Stout recorded that the candidates were unanimously elected and that the “greatest union and peace prevailed that I ever knew before in this place at an election.” Several of the elected officials were members of the Council of Fifty: Orson Spencer, mayor; Newel K. Whitney and Charles C. Rich, aldermen; and John Pack, George Miller, William W. Phelps, and Samuel Bent, city councilors. Hyde likely referred to an unsigned letter to the editor that appeared in the previous issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor. The letter argued that news of the repeal had arrived in Nauvoo just prior to the 3 February 1845 election and that “it was not thought advisable . . . to omit our election upon a mere rumor.” (Stout, Journal, 8 and 14 Jan. 1845; 3 Feb. 1845; “A Reason for an Election in Nauvoo,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 19 Mar. 1845, [2].)
Stout, Hosea. Journal, Oct. 1844–May 1845. CHL. MS 1910.