175 years ago today - Aug 11, 1843. Friday.

[William Clayton]
A.M. To the Temple office. P.M. President Joseph came to my house and I went home with him and took dinner with him. In our conversation about Judge [James] Adams Joseph made this remark "No man can put forth his hand to steady the ark but God and his servant Joseph." ... Joseph told me to day that [William?] "Walker" had been speaking to him concerning my having taken M[argaret] [as a plural wife] away from A[aron] [to whom she was engaged] and intimated that I had done wrong. I told him to be quiet and say no more about it. He also told me Emma was considerably displeased with it but says he she will soon get over it. In the agony of mind which I have endured on this subject I said I was sorry I had done it, at which Joseph told me not to say so. I finally asked him if I had done wrong in what I had done. He answered no you have a right to get all you can.

[Source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://bit.ly/WilliamClayton]