175 years ago today - Apr 6, 1844

First counselor Rigdon tells general conference: "There are men standing in your midst that you can't do anything with them but cut their throat & bury them."

[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]