# Title: 'Affairs at Nauvoo' (editorial), Messenger and Advocate (Pittsburgh) I:2
# Date: 1844-11-01
# Source: http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/RigWrit/M&A/MA-1844.htm | Provenance: unsigned editorial; first-person references to Rigdon's September 1844 Nauvoo visit mark it as his. Medium confidence. Contains one brief quoted sentence attributed to Brigham Young and to Wilford Woodruff.

AFFAIRS AT NAUVOO.

Our advices from Nauvoo, are to the 20th of October. Brigham Young, one of the Twelve, had, at a meeting at Ramus, in
Hancock county, discoursed thus, in a public address: "That there were a multitude of spirits, innumerable, who were
flocking about the houses of ill fame, seeking for bodies, although they were illegally obtained, yet they were
anxious to get them in any way; but God has devised a plan by which they can now obtain them in a legal way, without
disgrace." Important information, surely. Since the delivery of the above message, the gentleman and his co-worker,
Heber C. Kimball, have been absent, no reason assigned: they have gone probably to the places where their business
demands.

We have seen a No. of the 'Prophet,' published in N. York City, containing a letter over the signature of Wilford
Woodfruff, declaring, among other false assertions, that while we were at Nauvoo in Sept., we threatened to bring a
mob on the place. This is a fabrication without the least foundation in truth. We never said so, nor thought of
saying so; indeed we knew too much about the light in which the God of Heaven viewed Nauvoo and the people thereof,
to feel any disposition to bring on them any evil, greater than that decreed by the great God. Do these men think, by
publishing falsehoods against us or any others, that they will avert the judgment of God? ...

The ignorant corruptors at Nauvoo are busily engaged, up to the last dates, in spinning out the history of their own
ignorance and shame, in an unceasing effort to do something to hide their secret doctrine from the public gaze. Do
they think such fooling will any longer hide, from the world, their system of polygamy? If they do they will find
their mistake by and by....
