Footnotes
Historian’s Office, Journal, 7 June 1853; Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to George A. Smith, 30 Aug. 1856, in Historian’s Office, Letterpress Copybooks, vol. 1, p. 364.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Historian’s Office. Letterpress Copybooks, 1854–1879, 1885–1886. CHL. CR 100 38.
Jenson, Autobiography, 192, 389; Cannon, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891; Jenson, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891 and 19 Oct. 1897; Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 47–52.
Jenson, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Jenson: Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . . Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Jenson, Andrew. Journals, 1864–1941. Andrew Jenson, Autobiography and Journals, 1864–1941. CHL.
Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [4], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL. The JS Collection includes five letters that Orson Hyde wrote in 1844. The circa 1904 inventory references a letter from Hyde to the “council of the Church.” During his trip to Washington DC in spring 1844, Hyde addressed three letters, including this one, specifically to the Council of Fifty. (See Orson Hyde, Washington DC, to “Dear Brethren,” Nauvoo, IL, 9 June 1844; and Orson Hyde, Washington DC, to “Dear Brethren,” Nauvoo, IL, 11 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
“Texas Treaty,” Daily Madisonian (Washington DC), 12 Apr. 1844, [2]; Howe, What Hath God Wrought, 679.
Daily Madisonian. Washington DC. 1841–1845
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 “Mr. Clay’s Letter,” and “To the Editor of the Globe,” Globe (Washington DC), 29 Apr. 1844, 139, 140.
Globe. Washington DC. 1831–1845.
Council of Fifty, “Record,” 19 Mar. 1844; “List of Letters,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Jan. 1844, [3]. As a postmaster, Rigdon was entitled to franking privileges, meaning he could receive mail for free.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
JS, Journal, 25 May 1844. In this letter, Richards informed Hyde that the council was still committed to electing JS as president of the United States and that if Congress were to pass all or part of the memorial, the council would decide whether to accept or reject the final product. (Willard Richards, Nauvoo, IL, to Orson Hyde, [Washington DC], 25 May 1844, copy, Willard Richards, Journals and Papers, CHL.)
Latter-day Saint missionaries initiated proselytizing efforts in the southern, slaveholding states in the early 1830s. In 1836 JS stated that missionaries should not “preach at all to slaves, until after their masters are converted.” It is unclear how many slaveholders these missionaries baptized, but there are several recorded instances. In 1843, for example, John D. Lee baptized John Redd and his wife, Elizabeth, as well as two enslaved women in their household, Venus and Chaney. Lyman Wight similarly envisioned the possibility of converting “rich planters” and relocating them to a place where they could “plant their slaves” and “give all the proceeds of their yearly labor if rightly taught, for building up the Kingdom.” (Southern States Mission, vol. 1, part 1, p. [5], Southern States Mission Manuscript History and Historical Reports, CHL; Letter to Oliver Cowdery, ca. 9 Apr. 1836; Lee, Journal, 17 June 1843; Reiter, “Redd Slave Histories,” 110–111; Letter from Lyman Wight and Others, 15 Feb. 1844–A.)
Southern States Mission Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1832–1978. CHL.
Lee, John D. Journal, Mar. 1842–Aug. 1843. CHL. MS 2092.
Reiter, Tonya. “Redd Slave Histories: Family, Race, and Sex in Pioneer Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly 85, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 108–126.
TEXT: “twel[page torn]”. “The Twelve” was a common nickname for the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (See, for example, Letter from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 28 Mar. 1836; and Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 Apr. 1843.)
Since 1840, JS and other church leaders had advocated for the construction of factories to bring economic development to Nauvoo and to provide employment to British converts who had immigrated to the city. (See Letter to Quorum of the Twelve, 15 Dec. 1840; Discourse, 11 Feb. 1843; and “An Epistle of the Twelve,” Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1842, 3:895–896.)