Footnotes
Henry King, Keokuk, Iowa Territory, to John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, 14 July 1843, in Territorial Papers of the United States, the Territory of Iowa, reel 56; “Interview between Joseph Smith & the Pottowatomie Chiefs,” ca. 1856, in Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, July 1843; Dunham, Journal, 14 July–26 Aug. 1843; JS, Journal, 26 Aug. 1843; Clayton, Journal, 28 Aug. 1843; Letter to Paicouchaiby and Other Potawatomi, 28 Aug. 1843.
Carter, Clarence Edward, and John Porter Bloom, comps. Territorial Papers of the United States. 28 vols. Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1934–1975.
Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Draft Notes, ca. 1839–1856. CHL. CR 100 92.
Dunham, Jonathan. Journals, 1837–1846. Jonathan Dunham, Papers, 1825–1846. CHL. MS 1387, fds. 1–4.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Clayton, Journal, 4 Apr. 1844; 3 July 1844; 18 Aug. 1844. Clayton likely made some adjustments to the text when he wrote the fair copy of the minutes and discourse from this meeting, as he had done with other portions of the council records from the Nauvoo era. (Historical Introduction to Council of Fifty, “Record.”)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
For a full record of the Council of Fifty under JS, see “Part 1: March–June 1844.”
On 14 March 1844, Francis P. Blair, editor of the Democratic paper the Globe, published a lengthy commentary of JS’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States. Blair criticized JS’s proposal for a national bank, arguing that while he found JS’s ideas “more sound, his views more honest, and his scheme more feasible” than the Whigs’ plan for a national bank, JS was nevertheless “thoroughly imbued with the whig financial doctrines.” Blair facetiously proposed that JS be made president of the national bank and that “the mother bank be established at Nauvoo, with branches over all creation”; he also derided JS’s proposal to release convicts from penitentiaries. (“A New Advocate for a National Bank,” Daily Globe [Washington DC], 14 Mar. 1844, 251; “The Globe and Joe Smith,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [1]; JS, “The Globe,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [2]; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 18 Apr. 1844; see also General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States, ca. 26 Jan.–7 Feb. 1844; and Letter to Editor, 15 Apr. 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
This sentence may be a reference to a nonextant letter from Illinois representative John J. Hardin to JS. Alternatively, JS may have read one of the public letters Hardin wrote in February and March 1844 refuting allegations made by the Globe of a British conspiracy centering on a proposed Illinois canal and former Massachusetts governor John Davis. One of Hardin’s letters described the “just indignation, which has been felt throughout Illinois” at the Globe’s statements regarding the “local interests and character of our State.” (“The Globe and Governor Davis,” Daily National Intelligencer [Washington DC], 2 Feb. 1844, [2]; “Mr. Hardin,” Sangamo Journal [Springfield, IL], 21 Mar. 1844, [2].)
Daily National Intelligencer. Washington DC. 1800–1869.
Sangamo Journal. Springfield, IL. 1831–1847.