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The Constitutions of the United States and Ilinois - Nauvoo Charter and Municipal Court - Writ of Habeas Corpus

Joseph Smith Jr.

  • Joseph Smith Jr.: Author
Personal Essay, Speech
An address given by President Joseph Smith, delivered on the evening of his arrival from Dixon, June 30, 1843, in the grove, near the Temple, Nauvoo; about eight thousand people having hastily assembled, under the most intense excitement, in consequence of the attempt of Sheriff Reynolds, of Jackson County, Missouri, to kidnap him to Missouri, by preventing him from obtaining a writ of Habeas Corpus.
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Published in Journal of Discourses, volume 2, pages 163-169 Personal Essay
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