Episode 2: Appeals for Help
Road to Carthage: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast
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Joseph Smith's Campaign for President of the United States
The Council of 50 was an organization established by Joseph Smith and others in March 1844. At that time, there's growing pressure against Joseph and the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo. Some of these men wanted to move the saints to Texas. That pressure is going to culminate Joseph Smith's death a few months later.
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