170 years ago today - Feb 20, 1843

[Joseph Smith Diary] ... From 9 to 11 [A.M.] reciting in German. From 11 to 12 [A.M.] in court ... Snow melted away so as to destroy sl[e]ighing

... 2 boys were seen fighting in the street by Mill's tavern. The Mayor [Joseph Smith] saw it and ran over immediately, caught one of the boys (who had began the fight with clubs) and stopped him and then the other. [Joseph] gave the bystanders a lecture for not interfering in such cases and returned to court. "No body is allowed to fight in this city but me," said the Mayor.

/This day John Q. Adams presented a petition to the House of Representatives signed by 51,863 citizens of Mass[achuset]ts praying Congress "to pass such acts and prepare such amendments to the Constitution as will seperate the petitioners from all connection with the institution of slavery." ...

[Source: Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1842-43, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries]

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