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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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- [Q]If young [Joseph] Smith [, Jr.] was as illiterate as you say, Doctor, how do you account for the Book of Mormon?
- [A]"Well, I can't; except that Sidney Rigdon was connected with them."
- [Q]Was Rigdon ever around there before the Book of Mormon was published?
- [A]"No; not as we could ever find out. Sidney Rigdon was never there, that Hurlbut, or Howe, or Tucker could find out."
- [Q]Well; you have been looking out for the facts a long time, have you not, Doctor?
- [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."
- [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?
- [A]"Not that I know of.""
- — John Stafford, cited in William H. Kelly, "The Hill Cumorah, and the Book of Mormon," Saints' Herald 28 (1 June 1881): 167; cited in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols, 2:123–124.)