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.
Many Northerners and antislavery proponents at the time argued against the annexation of the slaveholding Republic of Texas by the United States on the grounds that doing so would increase the power of slavery interests in Congress and make ending slavery in the United States more difficult. JS had recently read a speech by Kentucky state representative Cassius Clay opposing the annexation of Texas. (JS, Journal, 29 Feb. 1844.)
For economic and geopolitical reasons, the British supported the long-term independence of the Republic of Texas, rather than its annexation by the United States. Although Houston, president of the Republic of Texas, at times entertained the idea of continued independence for Texas and actively sought Britain’s support for such a move, he also used the idea of a Texan-British alliance to prod American leaders to annex the republic. Some Americans feared Houston was even seeking to make Texas a province of Britain. Articles about the geopolitical situation of Texas appeared in the Nauvoo Neighbor in late 1843 and early 1844. (Howe, What Hath God Wrought, 671–672; “Texas, Mexico, and Great Britain,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 6 Dec. 1843, [1]; “Important from Texas. Texian Treachery and British Scheeming!!,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Dec. 1843, [4]; “Texas,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 10 Jan. 1844, [2].)
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
African slaves in most of the British Empire had been emancipated on 1 August 1834. (Debates in Parliament, 929–964.)
The Debates in Parliament—Session 1833—on the Resolutions and Bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies. With a Copy of the Act of Parliament. London: No publisher, 1834.