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Joseph Smith
Restoration

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Lyrics: 2-14 Scene
(Enter Governor FORD with his escort, to a fanfare.)
FORD
Citizens of Nauvoo, good day!
NANCY, FORBES, & CLAYTON
Away with you, away with you!
Just go away!
FORD
No, no! Let me explain before you go to Nauvoo!
NANCY, FORBES, & CLAYTON
Away with you! Just go away!
FORD
Let me explain!
FORBES
Governor Ford, no more of you! You desecrate the living as well as the dead. You martyr the memory of Joseph, showing the same face to your friends and to us. What are you, a rooting liar to gain your political ends?
FORD
You -- all of you -- you do not understand me! Let me explain.
CLAYTON
Not understand you!
FORBES
He will explain!
FORD
Let me explain!
NANCY, FORBES, & CLAYTON
Let you explain! Just go away!
FORD
The Carthage Greys were the legal militia.
FORBES & CLAYTON
Legal militia!
NANCY
No, no!
FORD
If some of them have been guilty of insubordination, they will be punished.
NANCY, FORBES, & CLAYTON
Guilty of insubordination?
Guilty! They are guilty! You are guilty!
CLAYTON
We heard you speak to them when Joseph was delivered into your hands, when you saw an opportunity for a little advantage. And you call murder insubordination! You gave them what they wanted to hear.
FORD
So many factions in Illinois! So many factions! I go between my citizens wondering whether I can call any of them Americans. Mormons -- you spin away from sanity, your eyes glazed over with zeal. You beat the drum of your own martyrdom; you invite the fire!
FORBES & CLAYTON
You betrayed Joseph to the mob of your own making!
You called the mob!
FORD
You ride me down with your zealousness. You ride me down! You want me to stand alone.
NANCY, FORBES, & CLAYTON
You stand alone. You stand alone.
By your actions, you stand alone.
You stand alone.

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