Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
In his speech, Clay, a Kentucky state representative, spoke against the annexation of the Republic of Texas, which would, if admitted to the Union, be a slave state. Clay argued that “there is no power in the federal constitution by which a slave State can be admitted into this Union” and that it was the United States’ “bounden duty not to add new slave States to the Union, but to purge it immediately of this fatal disease which threatens death to the liberties of the whole country.” While no reply to Clay from Phelps or JS has been located, JS’s Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States advocated the annexation of Texas. JS also addressed the issue publicly the following week, when he argued that the United States should annex Texas and emancipate the slaves. (Clay, “Speech of Cassius M. Clay,” 1–10; JS, General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States; JS, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844.)
Clay, Cassius M. “Speech of Cassius M. Clay.” In Anti-Slavery Records and Pamphlets. Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970.