Thoughts and stories, by Pal

This "election day fight" was on August 6th, 1838.  Brother John Butler mentioned was my 2nd great grandfather.  The story below was written in the History of the Church.  At the end, I'll include some of his own writing about the event.  ( See January 10, 2014, Blog # 66 for more about his life. ) August 6, 1838 - The citizens of Far West met in the afternoon at the schoolhouse for the purpose of organizing a weekly newspaper with Sidney Rigdon as editor. It was also voted that a petition be circulated to locate the county seat at Far West. The Prophet Joseph spoke and encouraged their efforts and also encouraged the farmers to come into the city to live while continuing to work their farms outside the city "according to the order of God."  Meanwhile, to the north of Far West, in Daviess County, fifty to one hundred Missourians refuse to let approximately thirty Latter-day Saints vote in the state and county elections at Gallatin, Missouri. There was a fi