Footnotes
JS, Journal, 4 Mar. 1844; Woodruff, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
JS, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844; see also Discourse, 7 Mar. 1844–B.
John Scott, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 26 Feb. 1844, City of Nauvoo v. Bostwick (Nauvoo Mayor’s Ct. 1844), Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL. The previous month, the Nauvoo mayor’s court fined Bostwick for slander. Following the trial, Bostwick’s attorney, Francis M. Higbee, said he would appeal the decision to the municipal court and, if necessary, to the circuit court—a move JS interpreted as an attempt to stir up a mob against Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo. Although the case was later brought before the circuit court, it was dismissed in May at Bostwick’s request, for unspecified reasons. (JS, Journal, 26 Feb. 1844; Notice, 9 Apr. 1844.)
“The Mormons and Their Prophet—Legislation at Nauvoo—The Temple,” New-York Daily Tribune (New York City), 27 Jan. 1844, [1].
New-York Daily Tribune. New York City. 1841–1924.
JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1842; Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1842–June 1844.
The letter, whose author has not been identified, appeared in the 27 January issue of the New-York Daily Tribune. The bulk of the letter berated JS and his “uneducated and vicious” followers and lamented that the Latter-day Saint presence in western Illinois dampened the prosperity of the region. In the last paragraph of the letter, the author asserted that building the Nauvoo temple would require twenty years and “a sum of money not far short of half a million of dollars” and concluded by claiming “good grounds for the opinion” that large sums of money donated for building the temple “never have been, or will be, expended on that splendid monument of folly and wickedness.” (“The Mormons and Their Prophet—Legislation at Nauvoo—The Temple,” New-York Daily Tribune [New York City], 27 Jan. 1844, [1].)
New-York Daily Tribune. New York City. 1841–1924.
JS was elected as trustee-in-trust for the church on 30 January 1841. (Appointment as Trustee, 2 Feb. 1841.)