Just so happen to be the secretary of a secret counsel that was established in nauvoo he turns to William Clayton and says i want you to go and burn the minutes he knew the contents of the records were very controversial and when seen in a certain light or context could be seen as treasonous and anxious to keep them out of the wrong answer the great benefit and a set of burning the documents and they could remain for several months. So now once the crisis dad up the documents and they remain restricted and believers of skeptics alike over 175 years. Not until 2014 that they would be making them available for the first time then published in 2016. So whenever there is a document related to a controversial topic so over the century and a half and what word is recorded and with the legendary proportion until finally when they finally got access psalm were disappointed. Where words joseph smith ground as the keying and where were they ordering the assassination of the was president . So while they were in these records the historian they were like catnip to me. And they had salacious stuff dont get me wrong but i found in these documents with those deep anxieties of religion so i dont want to be mistaken and in many ways and have reason to want them burned and also to emphasize tonight the anxiety behind those documents that were shared. So what i want to do tonight is highlight the cultural feelings and trajectories that led through june 1844 and why it was comprised of the people that their only recourse was to establish the clandestine and then with the all existing world and then the second thing and that lawfully minded those around nauvoo come to the conclusion the only way they could maintain is to kill joseph smith as a mob. So that background of the trajectory talk about the political context first when the followers arrived the winter of 1838 and 39 they were just refugees the great outrage who had ordered the extermination they have their own reasons why they did that we could talk about that in the discussion but they are in need of help and in illinois to be in the position to help them so talk about the background and why they seem anxious to help those beleaguered so first it prides itself as the rifle to missouri. Back then they were on the front tier of america with two different trajectories with the jacksonian policy. And illinois not only slavery but they also rejected the idea only a Certain Group of people should be in charge so they will come those groups to participate in the political sphere. That politicians aspiring politicians from those marginalized groups like abraham lincoln, those that serve in the state legislature at the time so every time i those hooligans in missouri we know how to take care of that outcast of the downtrodden this was a state evenly divided between the two political parties. On the one side the democrats to champion the rights those who believe in the more enlightened sense of politics and those to protect the margins of society. And the political system and the First NationalParty Convention but they were anxious to take advantage of illinois with the thousands of believers in the fruit at the political harvest. Illinois word is growing rapidly so much so the National Government grabbed illinois three new congressional seats and after the senses here in 2020 to relegate based on population but now they have these new congressional representatives from different voters. But on top of that Illinois Legislature in order to take advantage of the population passed a series of legislation gives the ability to vote to any white man so the only criteria is if you white and the man in there for six months and then to be eligible to vote in the new and significant Upcoming Elections and then to take advantage of the anxiety. And those that are listening to their interest. To follow their proposals and now they will be forced to listen to what they have to say