[Joseph Smith] In the evening W. W. Phelps reads Joseph's political platform, and Joseph comments, "I would not have suffered my name to have been used . . . as President of the United States . . . if I and my friends could have had the privilege of enjoying our religious and civil rights as American citizens. . . . I feel it to be my right and privilege to obtain what influence and power I can, lawfully, in the United States, for protection of injured innocence; and if I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue."
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
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