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− | ::If young [Joseph] Smith [, Jr.] was as illiterate as you say, Doctor, how do you account for the Book of Mormon? | + | ::['''Q''']If young [Joseph] Smith [, Jr.] was as illiterate as you say, Doctor, how do you account for the Book of Mormon? |
− | ::"Well, I can't; except that Sidney Rigdon was connected with them." | + | ::['''A''']"Well, I can't; except that Sidney Rigdon was connected with them." |
− | ::Was Rigdon ever around there before the Book of Mormon was published? | + | ::['''Q''']Was Rigdon ever around there before the Book of Mormon was published? |
− | ::"No; not as we could ever find out. Sidney Rigdon was never there, that Hurlbut, or Howe, or Tucker could find out." | + | ::['''A''']"No; not as we could ever find out. Sidney Rigdon was never there, that Hurlbut, or Howe, or Tucker could find out." |
− | ::Well; you have been looking out for the facts a long time, have you not, Doctor? | + | ::['''Q''']Well; you have been looking out for the facts a long time, have you not, Doctor? |
− | ::"Yes; I have been thinking and hearing about it for the last fifty years, and lived right among all their old neighbors there more of the time." | + | ::['''A''']"Yes; I have been thinking and hearing about it for the last fifty years, and lived right among all their old neighbors there more of the time." |
− | ::And no one has ever been able to trace the acquaintance of Rigdon and Smith, until after the Book of Mormon was published, and Rigdon proselyted by [Parley P.] Pratt, in Ohio? | + | ::['''Q''']And no one has ever been able to trace the acquaintance of Rigdon and Smith, until after the Book of Mormon was published, and Rigdon proselyted by [Parley P.] Pratt, in Ohio? |
− | ::"Not that I know of."" | + | ::['''A''']"Not that I know of."" |
+ | ::: <small>— John Stafford, cited in William H. Kelly, "The Hill Cumorah, and the Book of Mormon," ''Saints' Herald'' 28 (1 June 1881): 167; cited in {{EarlyMormonDocs|vol=2|start=123|end=124}})</small> |
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