Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^11) Compare D&C, 1:38; see also Whitmer, 31: “I will say here, that I could tell you other false
revelations that came through Brother Joseph as mouthpiece, (not through the stone) but this will suffice.”
(^12) DHC, 5:553–6; 6:47–9.
(^13) DHC, 6:49 (47–9).
(^14) Compare DHC, 6:49 and n. () of the same.
(^15) See n. 14 above.
(^16) On 24 September 1843, Joseph “preached on the stand about one hour on the 2nd chapter of
Acts, designing to show the folly of common stock.” (DHC, 6:37.)
(^17) DHC, 6:37–8.
(^18) See ch. 29, n. 6.
(^19) Stanley B. Kimball, “Kinderhook Plates Brought to Joseph Smith Appear to Be a
Nineteenth-Century Hoax,” Ensign, Aug. 1981: 67.
(^20) DHC, 5:372–9 and n. () of the same.
(^21) E.g., “...two Mormon Elders, Marsh and Sharp.” DHC, 5:378, n. ().
(^22) E.g., Vols. 3:9 and 3:10 [1 Mar. and 15 Mar. 1842], respectively. DHC, 4:524 (519–34).
(^23) DHC, 5:378, n. ().
(^24) E.g., “But the true story of the Kinderhook plates was disclosed by an affidavit made by W.
Fugate of Mound Station, Brown county, Illinois, before Jay Brown, justice of the peace, on June 30,
- In this he stated that the plates were a humbug, gotten up by Robert Wiley, Bridge Whitton, and
myself.” (DHC, 5:378, n (*).
(^25) Contrast this with DHC, 5:378, which says, “There are four lines of characters or
hieroglyphics on each. On one side of the plates are parallel lines running lengthways.”
(^26) William Clayton’s Journal, May 1, 1843, as cited in James B. Allen, Trials of Discipleship:
The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon (Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1987) 117. See also William
Clayton, An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton, ed. George D. Smith (Salt Lake
City: Signature Books, 1991) 100.
(^27) See DHC, 5:372.
(^28) See ch. 34, n. 9.
(^29) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:39.
(^30) See e.g., D&C, 138:30–6, 48–56.
(^31) BOM, 2 Nephi 9:13; Alma 11:43; 34:34; Ether 3:16–17; Moroni 10:34; D&C, 88:15.
(^32) Ironically, the anti-Joseph’s within the LDS Church were the founders of the anti-Mormon
movement. Thus, they were no better than their enemies whom their Savior required them to forgive
“for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34.)
(^33) SNS, 21, 32, 43.
(^34) Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge & Crandall, 1877) 179–80.
(^35) See JD, 1:355–6; 4:329, among others.
(^36) D&C, 93:33–4.
(^37) Compare HR, 4:19–23.
(^38) Compare D&C, 131:5–6.
(^39) BOM, 3 Nephi 26:6.
(^40) DHC, 5:424.
(^41) DHC, 5:461–73. See also “Joe Smith Caught,” New York American, 10 Jul. 1843.
(^42) DHC, 5:474. See also “Habeas Corpus,” Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia, 8th ed.,
1914: “This is the most famous writ in the law; and, having for many centuries been employed to remove
illegal restraint upon personal liberty, no matter by what power imposed, it is often called the great writ of
liberty. *** It is provided in Art. I, § 9, cl. 2 of the constitution of the United States that ‘The privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public
safety may require it.’ Similar provisions are found in the constitutions of most of the states.”
(^43) SNS, 94.