Footnotes
See the full bibliographic entry for Truthiana, 1843, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Richard Blennerhassett, St. Louis, MO, to Newel K. Whitney, Nauvoo, IL, 7 Mar. 1843, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU; see also Historical Introduction to Letter from Isaac Galland, 11 Mar. 1843; and “Part 1: March 1843.”
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
See Scharf, History of Saint Louis, 2:1477; Letter from Isaac Galland, 11 Mar. 1843; and Letter from Joseph Wood, 14 Mar. 1843.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Saint Louis City and County, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Day: Including Biographical Sketches of Representative Men. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883.
For example, Blennerhassett mailed his 7 March 1843 letter on 10 March, and it arrived in Nauvoo by 17 March. (Richard Blennerhassett, St. Louis, MO, to Newel K. Whitney, Nauvoo, IL, 7 Mar. 1843, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.)
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
See Transcript of Proceedings, 18 Nov. 1843, State of Missouri v. Rockwell (Clay Co. Cir. Ct. 1843), [6], Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL.
Historical Department. Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, ca. 1825–1890. CHL. CR 100 339.
Richard Blennerhassett, St. Louis, MO, to Newel K. Whitney, Nauvoo, IL, 7 Mar. 1843, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
Word of Rockwell’s arrest reached Nauvoo on 13 March 1843. (JS, Journal, 13 Mar. 1843.)
TEXT: “but” was canceled using “X #”.
See Proverbs 11:14.
Justin Butterfield was the United States attorney for the district of Illinois, and he represented JS before the United States circuit court in Springfield, Illinois, in the January 1843 hearing held to evaluate whether Missouri officials could extradite JS as being an accessory before the fact to Rockwell’s alleged assault on Boggs. Bennet was a New York attorney and philanthropist with whom JS had corresponded since 1842. (See Historical Introduction to Letter from Justin Butterfield, 17 Dec. 1842; “Part 1: March 1843”; Historical Introduction to Letter to Justin Butterfield, 18 Mar. 1843; and Historical Introduction to Letter to James Arlington Bennet, 17–18 Mar. 1843.)
JS was likely referring to information that Bennet promised to supply regarding John C. Bennett’s allegations, in particular that Bennett had reportedly admitted to Bennet that “the charge [of being accessory to the assault] could not be brought home” against JS. (Letter from James Arlington Bennet, 10 Apr. 1843.)
After learning of Rockwell’s situation, Blennerhassett wrote to Missouri governor Thomas Reynolds “demanding the protection of the laws for Rockwell against personal violence.” (Richard Blennerhassett, St. Louis, MO, to Newel K. Whitney, Nauvoo, IL, 7 Mar. 1843, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU, underlining in original.)
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
TEXT: The phrase “to Prisoner” was canceled first, after which the entire line, “and also convey their inteligence to Prisoner, to your client, you,” was canceled. Minor emendations were also made three lines above the canceled portion. Subsequently, three lines above and one line beneath the deleted line were canceled with a downward stroke. Finally, editorial markings were used to designate more precisely the text that was to be canceled.
Rockwell had been in hiding since August 1842 and presumably had few, if any, resources when he was arrested in St. Louis in early March 1843. (See Historical Introduction to Letter from Sybella McMinn Armstrong and Orrin Porter Rockwell, 1 Dec. 1842.)
TEXT: This passage was initially canceled using a diagonal downward stroke. Editorial markings were then used to more precisely designate the text to be canceled. This second block cancellation may have been made to preserve the paragraphing in the initial draft.
In spring 1842, Bennett was accused of sexual misconduct, which led to his excommunication from the church, his resignation as mayor of Nauvoo, and his subsequent departure from the city. (“Joseph Smith Documents from May through August 1842”; see also Smith, Saintly Scoundrel, chap. 7.)
Smith, Andrew F. The Saintly Scoundrel: The Life and Times of Dr. John Cook Bennett. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Writing under the pseudonym “Joab, General in Israel” in late 1840, Bennett condemned Missouri’s past treatment of the Saints, predicted divine retribution upon the state, and called for armed military resistance to the ongoing efforts to extradite JS to Missouri to stand trial for crimes allegedly committed during the 1838 conflict. (John C. Bennett [Joab, pseud.], to Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, Times and Seasons, Sept. 1840, 1:165–167; Editorial, Times and Seasons, 1 Aug. 1842, 3:875.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.