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When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended
requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his
assassination, he said: “I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I
am calm as a summer’s morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I SHALL DIE INNOCENT, AND IT SHALL YET BE SAID OF ME—HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD.”—The
same morning, after Hyrum had made ready to go—shall it be said to the
slaughter? yes, for so it was—he read the following paragraph, near the
close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and turned
down the leaf upon it:
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