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Mormon content: report on Joe Smith...
Mormon content: report on Joe Smith...
Item # 705185
September 17, 1842
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Sept. 17, 1842
The back page has a brief yet rather rare report with a mini-head: "Joe Smith" stating: "This wonderful fellow is to be bodily absent from his people for ten years; so say the latest accounts."
Just before this is a small article: "Slave Trade", and several pages are taken up with: "Northeastern & Northwestern Boundary" with Canada, being correspondence between Lord Ashburton and Daniel Webster.
Sixteen pages, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, nice condition.
AI notes: In 1842, Joseph Smith led the growing Mormon community in Nauvoo, Illinois, serving as both mayor and militia leader. He secretly practiced plural marriage and faced scandal when former ally John C. Bennett accused him of immorality and abuse of power. That year, Smith was also accused of involvement in the attempted assassination of Missouri’s ex-governor, prompting an unsuccessful extradition effort. Despite the controversies, Smith continued church expansion and directed the construction of the Nauvoo Temple.
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."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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