History Draft [1 January–3 March 1843]
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Source Note
History draft; handwriting of and ; docket in handwriting of Robert L. Campbell; 27 pages; CHL. This manuscript covers the period from 1 January 1843 to 3 March 1843.
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does that Coat fit you ? “pretty well”! put it on then; This is the way people swell like the toad in the fable, they’l come down under the hill among little folks, and say brother Joseph, how I love you; can I do any thing for you; and then go away secretly and get up opposition, and sing out our names, to strangers & Scoundrels, with an evil influence, I want all men to feel for me, when I have shook the bush, and borne the burden in the heat of the day; and if they do not, I speak in Authority; in the name of the Lord God, he shall be dam’d. Some say, that the people on the flats are agrandizing themselves by the . but who laid the foundation of the ? Brother Joseph, in the name of the Lord, not for his agrandisement but for the good of the whole. Our speculators say poor folks on the flat are down, & keep them down: How the cheats this man, & that man say the speculators. Those who repeat such things are facts, ought to hide their heads in a hollow punkin, & never take them out.
The first principle brought into consideration is aggrandisement, some think it unlawful; but it is lawful with any man, while he has a disposition to agrandise all around him. It is a false principle for a man to aggrandise himself at the expence of another. Every thing that God does is to aggrandise his Kingdom, and how does he lay the foundation? Build a Temple to my great name, and call the attention of the great, the Rich, and the noble But where shall we lay our heads? in an old log cabin; I will whip , and and evey body else over s head who instead of building the build a great many little skeletons. See ’s Mammoth Skeletons rising all over Town; but there is no flesh on them, they are all for personal interest & aggrandisement, but I do not care how many bones there are in the somebody may come along and clothe them— See the Bones of the Elephant yonder (as I pointed to the big house on Mulholland Street preparing for a Tavern as yet uncovered) the Crocodiles and man Eaters all about the , such as Grog Shops & Card Shops & Counterfeit Shops &c got up for their own aggrandisement and all for Speculation: while the is neglected. Those who live in Glass Houses should not throw Stones. The building of the is just as sacred in my view as the . I want the built, it must be built our Salvation depends upon it. When men have done what they can, or will do for the , let them do what they can for the . We never can accomplish our work at the expence of another. There is a great deal of murmuring in the about me, but I do not care any thing about it I like to hear it Thunder. [p. 21]
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All graphite corrections on this page are in the handwriting of Willard Richards.
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Cancellation and insertion in the handwriting of Willard Richards.
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