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Discourse, 30 June 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards

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Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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, Hancock Co., IL, 30 June 1843; in JS, Journal, 1842–1844, bk. 2, pp. [275]–[290]; handwriting of
Willard Richards
24 June 1804–11 Mar. 1854. Teacher, lecturer, doctor, clerk, printer, editor, postmaster. Born at Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Joseph Richards and Rhoda Howe. Moved to Richmond, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, 1813; to Chatham, Columbia Co...
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hand. & will do it again but I will Swear I will never deal so mildly again.

Be cool be deliberate.— be wise, and when you pull do it with sweepstakes.— my lot has alwasy [always] be[e]n cast among the warm[e]st kind of people

The time has come when the viel [veil] is torn of[f] from this state. & let us mingle with the people of I. should have been torn <from> with the expen[s]e of life & blood if I had asked

I brought them prisoners. and committed them as prisoners not of chai[n]s but of kindness to her from whom I was torn [p. [277]]

hand. & will do it again but I Swear I will never deal so mildly again.

Be cool be deliberate.— be wise, and when you pull do it with sweepstakes.— my lot has alwasy always been cast among the warmest kind of people

The time has come when the viel [veil] is torn off from this state. & let us mingle with the people of I. should have been torn from with the expense of life & blood if I had asked

I brought them prisoners. and committed them as prisoners not of chains but of kindness to her from whom I was torn [p. [277]]

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