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Source: Church History Vol. 2 Chapter 14 Page: 278 (~1838-1839)

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278 and wisdom you can conceive it to be proper to make an appropriation by law to these sufferers, many of whom are still pressed down with poverty in consequence of their losses, would be able to pay their debts, and also in some degree be relieved from poverty and woe; whilst the widow's heart would be made to rejoice, and the orphan's tear measurably dried up, and the prayers of a grateful people ascend on high with thanksgiving and praise to the Author of our existence for that beneficent act.

"In laying our case before your honorable body we say that we are willing and ever have been to conform to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State. We ask in common with others the protection of the laws. We ask for the privilege guaranteed to all free citizens of the United States and of this State to be extended to us, that we may be permitted to settle and live where we please, and worship God according to the dictates of our conscience without molestation. And while we ask for ourselves this privilege we are willing all others should enjoy the same.

"We now lay our case at the feet of your legislature and ask your honorable body to consider it, and do for us, after mature deliberation, that which your wisdom, patriotism, and philanthropy may dictate.

"And we, as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.

"Edward Partridge, Heber C. Kimball, John Taylor,

"Theodore Turley, Brigham Young, Isaac Morley,

"George W. Harris John Murdock, John M. Burk,

"A committee appointed by the citizens of Caldwell County, to draft this memorial and sign it in their behalf.

"Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, December 10,1838."

-Millennial Star, vol. 18, pp. 586-589.

On December 16 President Joseph Smith wrote a lengthy epistle to the church, which closed with the following sound advice:-

"And now dear and well beloved brethren,-and when we say brethren, we mean those who have continued faithful in Christ, men, women, and children,-we feel to exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to be

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