Letter to John C. Calhoun, 4 November 1843, as Published in Times and Seasons
Source Note
JS, Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to , Fort Hill near , Pickens District, SC, 4 Nov. 1843. Version published in “Correspondence of Gen. Joseph Smith and Hon. J. C. Calhoun,” Times and Seasons, 1 Jan. 1844, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 393–394. For more complete source information, see the source note for Letter to Isaac Galland, 22 Mar. 1839.
Hon ,—Dear Sir,—As we understand that you are a candidate for the presidency at the next election; and as the (sometimes called Mormons, who now constitute a numerous class in the school politic of this vast republic), have been robbed of an immense amount of property, and endured nameless sufferings by the state of , and from her borders have been driven by force [p. 393]