175 years ago today - Aug 19, 1843 - Saturday

[Joseph Smith]
<about> 200 citezins assembled in Carthage to consult about the Mormons. [[This "great meeting of anti-Mormons . . . without distinction of party" had been called the previous Saturday to consider whether Mormons who had been elected to various county offices should be allowed to retain those offices.]]

[Source: "President Joseph Smith’s Journal," Journal, 4 vols., Dec. 1842â€"June 1844 (Williard Richards)]

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