Contents of the "oath of vengeance" provided during the Smoot hearing. "Vengeance" to be carried out by God, not man.
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- Meeting Minutes / Notes
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- August W. Lundstrom Disaffected
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Testimony of August W. Lundstrom, Proceedings before the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Protests Against the Right of Hon. Reed Smoot, a Senator from the State of Utah, to Hold His Seat (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906), 2:153
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- Government Printing Office
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- Reading Public
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Mr. [Robert W.] Tayler [counsel for the protestants]: Can you give us the obligation of retribution? Mr. Lundstrom: I can. Mr. Tayler: You may give that. Mr. Lundstrom: "We and each of us solemnly covenant and promise that we shall ask God to avenge the blood of Joseph Smith upon this nation." There is something more added, but that is all I can remember verbatim. That is the essential part. Mr. Tayler: What was there left of it? What else? Mr. Lundstrom: It was in regard to teaching our children and children's children to the last generation to the same effect.
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