[Nauvoo Temple] The Daily Missouri Republican reported on the resolution to sell the Temple on May 3, stating that its sale would "cut off the last and only motive which could exist to induce them [the Mormons] to stay in Nauvoo, or to return to it at any future time." The Peoria Democratic Press reported that a gentleman from a southern state was interested in purchasing the Temple.
[source: Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]
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