Presidential Candidate
Joseph Smith Jr.
Artist: Michael Bedard Art Copyrighted ©
“In the United States the people are the government; and their united voice is the only sovereign that should rule; the only power that should be obeyed; and the only gentlemen that should be honored; at home and abroad; on the land and the sea. Wherefore, were I president of the United States, by the voice of a virtuous people, I would honor the old paths of the venerated fathers of freedom; I would walk in the tracks of the illustrious patriots. who carried the ark of the government upon their shoulders with an eye single to the glory of the people and when that people petitioned to abolish slavery in the slave states, I would use all honorable means to have their prayers granted; and give liberty to the captive; by paying the southern gentleman a reasonable equivalent for his property, that the whole nation might be free indeed!
"God, who once cleansed the violence of the earth with flood; whose Son laid down his life for the salvation of all his father gave him out of the world; and who has promised that he will come and purify the world again with fire in the last days, should be supplicated by me for the good of all people.” With the highest esteem, I am a friend of virtue and the people. JOSEPH SMITH. Nauvoo, Illinois, February 7, 1844.
JOSEPH SMITH’S PRESIDENTIAL PLATFORM, “GENERAL SMITH’S VIEWS OF THE POWERS AND POLICY OF
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES NAUVOO, ILLINOIS 1844
Bedard Fine Art Gallery Museum Giclee Canvas Print Print requires NO GLASS with frame
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