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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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<​a​> state have had been expelled contrary to the constitu[ti]on, mobbed, robbed, plundered, and many murdered, instead of searching into the course taken with Joan<​na​>

Insertion in the handwriting of Thomas Bullock.


Southcott, Ann Lee, the French prophets, the Quakers of New England, and rebellious <​negroes​> in the slave states, to hear both sides and then Judge, rather than <​to​>

Insertion in the handwriting of Thomas Bullock.


have the mortification to say: "O it is my my bull that has killed your ox— that alters the case. I must enquire into it. And if and if!”
If the general government has no power; to reinstate expelled citizens to their rights, there is a monstrous hypocrite fed and fostered from the hard earness of the people!— A real “Bull Beggars” upheld by sycophants, <​and although​> you may wink to the priests to stigmatize; wheedle the drunkards to swear, and raise the hue and cry of Impostor, false prophet, God-dam old Joe Smith, but remember, if the
Latter Days 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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are not restored to all their rights, and paid for all their losses according to the known rules of Justice and Judgment, reciprocation and moral honesty among men, that God will come out of his hiding place and vex this nation with a sore vexation— and <​yea​> [p. [6]]
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Letter to John C. Calhoun, 2 January 1844, Draft
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    Insertion in the handwriting of Thomas Bullock.

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    Insertion in the handwriting of Thomas Bullock.

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