Without Disclosing My True Identity
notwithstanding he was drunk, and the curse remains upon the posterity of Canaan until the present
day.” (DHC, 4:445–6.)
(^16) TSP, 20:36; 31:55.
(^17) DHC, 4:289.
(^18) DHC, 4:293.
(^19) See n. 18 above.
(^20) D&C, 121:34–5.
(^21) BOM, 2 Nephi 9:28.
(^22) 1 Corinthians 9:18.
(^23) DHC, 4:291.
(^24) DHC, 4:291.
(^25) See chapter 35. See also DHC, 7:37–8 and note ().
(^26) Chapman Brothers, Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois Containing
Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens of the County Together with Portraits and
Biographies of the All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States (Chicago: Chapman
Brothers, 1887) 134–6.
(^27) Chapman Brothers, 138–40.
(^28) Gov. Thomas Ford, A History of Illinois from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
(Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1854).
(^29) DHC, 295–6.
(^30) DHC, 4:293.
(^31) DHC, 4:399.
(^32) BOM, Mormon 5:1.
(^33) DHC, 4:295–6.
(^34) BOM, Mormon 5:1–2.
(^35) “[A]goraphobia is a condition where the sufferer becomes anxious in environments that are
unfamiliar or where he or she perceives that they have little control. Triggers for this anxiety may
include wide open spaces, crowds (social anxiety), or traveling (even short distances).” Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia, 27 Jun. 2011, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 13 Jul. 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia. See also chapter 7, “Hyrum’s Weaknesses.”
(^36) Compare BOM, Mormon 2:1–2; 3:11; 5:1–2.
(^37) Compare Title 10, U.S.C. § 311, which provides for a militia to consist of able-bodied men
between 17 and 45 years of age. See, e.g., “10 USC § 311 – Militia: Composition and Classes,” Legal
Information Institute, 2011, Cornell University, 27 Jan. 2012
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/311.html. This authority stems from the Second
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution which provides that, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary
to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
(^38) Contrast with DHC, 4:293, which says that the City Council allowed “such citizens of
Hancock County as may unite by voluntary enrollment.” Compare also with BOM, Alma 51:6–7.
(^39) Matthew 26:52–3.
(^40) “Legion Resolutions,” February 20, 1841. (DHC, 4:300.)
(^41) D&C, 121:37.
(^42) DHC, 4:341.
(^43) DHC, 4:229–30 and note (); D&C, 124:124.
(^44) DHC, 5:18, 75–7.
(^45) See, e.g., DHC, 5:112–14 and note (*).
(^46) See Joseph’s earlier letter to Governor Carlin regarding Bennett. DHC, 5:42–4.
(^47) For an account of the murders, see DHC, 6:612–22.