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Letter to John C. Calhoun, 2 January 1844, Draft

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Nauvoo

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, to
John C. Calhoun

18 Mar. 1782–31 Mar. 1850. Lawyer, politician. Born near Hutchinson’s Mill, Ninety-Sixth District (later Calhoun Mill, Mount Carmel, McCormick Co.), South Carolina. Son of Patrick Calhoun and Martha Caldwell. Graduated from Yale, 1804, in New Haven, New Haven...

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, Fort Hill, Pickens Co., SC, 2 Jan. 1844. Version drafted 2 Jan. 1844; handwriting of
William W. Phelps

17 Feb. 1792–7 Mar. 1872. Writer, teacher, printer, newspaper editor, publisher, postmaster, lawyer. Born at Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey. Son of Enon Phelps and Mehitabel Goldsmith. Moved to Homer, Cortland Co., New York, 1800. Married Sally Waterman,...

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; docket and notation in handwriting of
Thomas Bullock

23 Dec. 1816–10 Feb. 1885. Farmer, excise officer, secretary, clerk. Born in Leek, Staffordshire, England. Son of Thomas Bullock and Mary Hall. Married Henrietta Rushton, 25 June 1838. Moved to Ardee, Co. Louth, Ireland, Nov. 1839; to Isle of Anglesey, Aug...

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; eleven pages; JS Collection, CHL.

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introductions to Letter to John C. Calhoun, 2 Jan. 1844; and Letter to John C. Calhoun, 4 Nov. 1843.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Letter to John C. Calhoun, 2 January 1844

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have enterd some two or three hundred thousand dollars worth of land, and made Large improvements thereon; go on, then, I say banish the occupants or owners, or kill them off as did <​the​> Mobbers <​did​> many of the
Latter day saints

The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...

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, and take their lands and property as a spoil; and let the legislature, as in the case of the Mormans, appropriate a couple of hundred thousand dollars to pay the Mob for doing the Job, for the renowned Senator from
South Carolina

One of original thirteen states that formed U.S. Settled at Port Royal, 1670. Separated from North Carolina and organized under royal government, 1719. Admitted as state, 1788. Population in 1830 about 581,000. Population in 1840 about 594,000. JS exchanged...

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. Mr
J[ohn] C. Calhoun

18 Mar. 1782–31 Mar. 1850. Lawyer, politician. Born near Hutchinson’s Mill, Ninety-Sixth District (later Calhoun Mill, Mount Carmel, McCormick Co.), South Carolina. Son of Patrick Calhoun and Martha Caldwell. Graduated from Yale, 1804, in New Haven, New Haven...

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, says, the powers of the Federal government are <​are​> so specific and limited that it has no Jurisdiction of the case! Oh ye peoples who groan under the oppression of tyrants, ye exiled Poles, who <​have​> felt the Iron hand of Russian grasp; ye poor and unfavored <​unfortunate​> among all nations, come to the “Asylum of the oppossed;” buy ye lands of the general government, pay in your money to the Treasury, to strengthen the army and navy; worship God according to the dictates of your own consciences; pay in your taxes to support the Great heads of a glorious nation;— but remember a “Sovereign State’ is so much more powerful than the
United States

North American constitutional republic. Constitution ratified, 17 Sept. 1787. Population in 1805 about 6,000,000; in 1830 about 13,000,000; and in 1844 about 20,000,000. Louisiana Purchase, 1803, doubled size of U.S. Consisted of seventeen states at time ...

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, the parent government, [p. [3]]
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