PEACE

“Our nation, which possesses greater resources than any other, is rent from center to circumference, with party strife, political intrigues and sectional interest; our counselors are panic stricken, our legislators are astonished, and our tradesmen are disheartened, our mechanics out of employ, our farmers distressed and our poor crying for bread, our banks are broken, our credit ruined, and our states overwhelmed in debt, yet we are and have been in peace.” Joseph Smith, 1842