The WARSAW SIGNAL editorializes: "We believe they [Mormons] have the same rights as other religious bodies posses. . . But whenever they, as a people, step beyond the proper sphere of a religious denomination, and become a political body, as many of our citizens are beginning to apprehend will be the case, then this press stands pledged to take a stand against th. . . It is bound to oppose the concentration of political power in a religious body, or in the hands of a few individuals."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign1841.htm#0519
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