Item Detail
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6683
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30
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English
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The Mormon Question Enters National Politics, 1850-1856
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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April 1957
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25
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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117-31
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Here the author discusses, among other things, the relationship between slavery and polygamy in the Republican platform of 1856, which included a plank calling for the elimination of the 'twin relics of barbarism.' The essay provides a good background discussion of the relationship between national politics and Mormon concerns beginning with the Compromise of 1850, but focuses largely on the 1856 campaign. The 'twin relics' campaign, Poll says, helped persuade President Buchanan that he must act immediately to clear the Democratic party of the charge that its political doctrines were contributing to Mormon deliquency. The result was the Utah Expedition of 1857-58.
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