Footnotes
Footnotes
Cheathem, Coming of Democracy, 9–11.
Cheathem, Mark R. The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
In 1843 Edward Walker published a new edition of a book that contained the annual messages to Congress delivered by each president, including John Tyler. This is likely the source from which JS and Phelps extracted the quotations they used in this pamphlet. (The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, from Washington to Tyler . . . , 4th ed. [New York: Edward Walker, 1843].)
The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, from Washington to Tyler, Embracing the Executive Proclamations, Recommendations, Protests, and Vetoes, from 1789 to 1843, together with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. 4th ed. New York: Edward Walker, 1843.
See Bercovitch, American Jeremiad, 142–143; and Cheathem, Coming of Democracy, 39–43, 134–135.
Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Cheathem, Mark R. The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 Dec. 1839; Discourse, 1 Mar. 1840; see also McBride, “When Joseph Smith Met Martin Van Buren,” 150–158.
McBride, Spencer W. Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017.
In 1834 church members in Missouri wrote a petition to President Andrew Jackson requesting federal intervention to protect them from mob violence and to aid them in regaining land in Jackson County, Missouri, from which they had been expelled. Secretary of War Lewis Cass responded that the president did not have the authority to send troops to Missouri to aid in the enforcement of state laws. Later appeals for federal help in obtaining redress and reparations for the Saints’ losses in Missouri were met with similar responses. (See Edward Partridge et al., Petition to Andrew Jackson, 10 Apr. 1834, copy; Lewis Cass, Washington DC, to Sidney Gilbert et al., Liberty, MO, 2 May 1834, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL; Report of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 4 Mar. 1840; and “Latter-day Saints,” Alias Mormons: The Petition of the Latter-day Saints, Commonly Known as Mormons, House of Representatives doc. no. 22, 26th Cong., 2nd Sess. [1840].)
Phelps, William W. Collection of Missouri Documents, 1833–1837. CHL. MS 657.
“Latter-day Saints,” Alias Mormons: The Petition of the Latter-day Saints, Commonly Known as Mormons. House of Representatives doc. no. 22, 26th Cong., 2nd Sess. (1840).
Congress established the first Bank of the United States in 1791 but did not renew its charter in 1811. Congress then established the Second Bank of the United States in 1816, but President Andrew Jackson effectively stripped the bank of its financial power when he ordered the federal government to withdraw its funds in 1832. The bank’s charter officially expired in 1836. (Murphy, Other People’s Money, 64–67, 80–81, 96.)
Murphy, Sharon Ann. Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Murphy, Other People’s Money, 66–67, 80–85, 96.
Murphy, Sharon Ann. Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017.
The 5 February 1844 entry in JS’s journal states, “I was the first one who publicly proposed a national Bank on the principles I had advanced.” (JS, Journal, 5 Feb. 1844.)
Gottschalk, Prison and the Gallows, 43–48, 52–55. After visiting the United States in 1831, French political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville described the conditions of American prisons and noted that the country’s legal system often incarcerated low-income individuals while people with more resources remained free by paying fines. Tocqueville called the American prison system the “remains of aristocratic institutions in the midst of a complete democracy.” During the 1840s and 1850s, several individuals and organizations dedicated to the reform of American prisons published reports on the state of those institutions. (Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1:46; see also D. L. Dix, Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States [Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1845]; and Reports of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston, vols. 2–3 [Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1855].)
Gottschalk, Marie. The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. 2 vols. London: Saunders and Otley, 1835.
Dix, Dorothea L. Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1845.
Reports of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston. 3 vols. Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1855.
The first penitentiary in the United States opened in Philadelphia in 1790. Proponents of the new institution celebrated it as an important reform to the criminal justice system in the United States, one that focused on improving prisoners during their incarceration by utilizing solitary confinement, religious instruction, and hard labor. Opponents of the penitentiary movement claimed that such institutions and methods were “unrepublican” and inhumane. (Manion, Liberty’s Prisoners, 10–14, 76; Ayers, Vengeance and Justice, 44–49.)
Manion, Jen. Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Ayers, Edward L. Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the 19thCentury American South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Antislavery advocates in nineteenth-century America were divided on the question of whether those freed from slavery should be allowed to remain in their native states, permitted to move elsewhere in the United States, or sent to other locations. For example, the American Colonization Society founded Liberia in western Africa as a home for freed enslaved persons. JS never set forth a definitive plan for persons freed from slavery. He had sold land in Nauvoo, Illinois, to free people of color, but in a March 1844 discourse he also suggested that some former enslaved persons could be relocated to Mexico. (Sinha, Slave’s Cause, 161–171; Bond to Elijah Able, 8 Dec. 1839; Discourse, 7 Mar. 1844–B.)
Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
Prior to 1844, several abolitionist groups had attempted paid emancipation but on a much smaller scale, buying the freedom of one enslaved person at a time. After the American Revolution, several states permitted manumission under a variety of circumstances, including a person purchasing an enslaved person’s freedom or, less commonly, an enslaved person purchasing his or her own freedom. Former enslaved persons sometimes purchased the freedom of family members. Other states outlawed manumission altogether. (Sinha, Slave’s Cause, chap. 3.)
Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
In May 1844, for example, JS reportedly told Charles Francis Adams and Josiah Quincy that he “recognized the curse and iniquity of slavery, though he opposed the methods of the Abolitionists.” However, Quincy, who recorded the conversation in his journal, did not specify JS’s precise objections. (Quincy, Figures of the Past, 378–379, 397.)
Quincy, Josiah. Figures of the Past: From the Leaves of Old Journals. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883.
Emerson, Young American, 6; see also Howe, What Hath God Wrought, 96–97, 115, 712–722.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Young American. A Lecture, Read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, at the Odeon, Wednesday, February 7, 1844. London: John Chapman, 1844.
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
See Howe, What Hath God Wrought, 658–682.
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
See Discourse, 7 Mar. 1844–B; Haynes, Unfinished Revolution, chap. 10; Roeckell, “British Opposition to the Annexation of Texas,” 257–278; and Howe, What Hath God Wrought, 672.
Haynes, Sam W. Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Roeckell, Lelia M. “Bonds over Bondage: British Opposition to the Annexation of Texas." Journal of the Early Republic 19, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 257–278.
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Greenberg, Wicked War, 15; Howe, What Hath God Wrought, 679.
Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. New York: Knopf, 2012.
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
“Message of the President of the United States,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 28th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 1–4 [1843]; “Presdent’s Message,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 27 Dec. 1843, [1]–[2]; JS, Journal, 26 and 29 Jan. 1844.
The Congressional Globe, Containing Sketches of the Debates and Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Congress. Vol. 8. Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1840.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
“General Smith’s Views,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 8 May 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
A full list of the different printings of General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States published in Nauvoo and throughout the United States appears in the Calendar of Documents. In at least two instances in Tennessee, where slavery was legal, the pamphlet’s passages that called for the abolition of slavery created legal trouble for electioneering missionaries attempting to reprint and distribute the pamphlet. (Smoot, Diary, 25 and 29 May 1844; 4 June 1844; see also McBride, Joseph Smith for President, 120–129.)
Smoot, Abraham O. Diary, 1836–1845. Photocopy. Abraham O. Smoot, Papers, 1836–1893. Photocopy. CHL.
McBride, Spencer W. Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
See, for example, “Gen. Joseph Smith a Candidate for President,” Illinois State Register (Springfield), 15 Mar. 1844, [2]; and “Mormon Movements,” New York Herald (New York City), 23 May 1844, [2]; see also McBride, “Newspaper Response to Joseph Smith’s 1844 Presidential Campaign,” 30, 36–41.
Illinois State Register. Springfield, IL. 1839–1861.
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
McBride, Spencer W. “‘Many Think This Is a Hoax’: The Newspaper Response to Joseph Smith’s 1844 Presidential Campaign.” In Contingent Citizens: The Shifting Perceptions of Latterday Saints in American Political Culture, edited by Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson, 29–41. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
“A New Advocate for a National Bank,” Daily Globe (Washington DC), 14 Mar. 1844, [3]; see also Letter to Editor, 15 Apr. 1844. JS responded in “The Globe,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
See Daniel 7:15.
The population of the United States included 2,487,455 enslaved persons in 1840 and 3,204,313 enslaved persons in 1850. (DeBow, Statistical View of the United States, 82.)
DeBow, J. D. B. Statistical View of the United States, Embracing Its Territory, Population—White, Free Colored, and Slave—Moral and Social Condition, Industry, Property, and Revenue. . . . Washington DC: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1854.
See Matthew 23:6; Mark 12:39; and Luke 20:46.
See Acts 17:26.