HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, 1880
Chapter VI, The Mormon Period, by Thomas Gregg
"Mayor [Joseph Smith] said the Constitution did not authorize the press to publish libels, and proposed that the Council make some provision for putting down the Nauvoo Expositor (during the Nauvoo City Counsil meeting called for the purpose of determining the newspaper's future, page 312)."
Pages 312-313

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