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Joseph Smith no longer a murder suspect...
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Joseph Smith no longer a murder suspect...

Item # 709240 ·
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Jan. 21, 1843 A back page report about "Joe Smith" notes in part: "...This personage, who lately surrendered himself at Springfield, Illinois in obedience to the requisition of the governor of Missouri, on a charge of being accessary to the attempted assassination of ex-governor Boggs...was discharged... from custody of the ground that he is not a fugitive from justice, & consequently not the subject of surrender to the authorities of another state...".
Also on the back page is a tongue-in-cheek item on the Millerites, noting: "...We must believe, as the only mode of reconciling these things with the human understanding, that the legislature of Illinois are Millerites; and, as they end of the world occurs in 1843, there is no necessity for raising a revenue...".
Sixteen pages, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, very nice condition.

As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."

Item from our most recent catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026

Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$56
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.