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To: Katelew who wrote (83599)	9/11/2008 10:18:30 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544258

>>I agree with your historical account, but JS and Hyrum had plenty of reasons to assume, that at some point it was likely they would be assassinated for their claims. These weren't the first angry mobs and the early Mormons were run out of more than one town. I've always viewed it as a slow march to certain early death. If he were a con, might he not have cashed out at Nauvoo and gone on the lam?<< Kate - Sure, but a con who thinks he's still winning the game doesn't quit. I think he must have been a megalomaniac. That running for President thing would be an indicator. Any sensible person would have known that he had no chance at the Presidency. When the jailer warned him that a mob was approaching the jail house, Smith told him that they were Mormons coming to break him out. Still thought he was winning, right up unto the end. The really preposterous parts of the Joseph Smith story come much earlier, though. Again, this is only my view. I could be wrong. But my view has something to do with why I'm no longer a Mormon, nor considering becoming one. - Allen