View source for Source:David Whitmer:Rebuttal to John Murphy 19 March 1881:EMD 5:69:Which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses

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==David Whitmer (1881): "I have never at any time, denied that testimony...which has so long since been published with that book...It was no Delusion"==
The following is a portion of John Murphy's interview with David Whitmer, written from Murphy's perspective.<ref>John Murphy to the Editor, undate, ''Hamiltonian'', 21 January 1881, quoted in "David Whitmer Interview with John Murphy, June 1880," Early Mormon Documents 5:63.</ref>:
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[Murphy]: "First of all, I heard you saw an angel. I never saw one. I want your description of [the] shape, voice, brogue and the construction of his language. I mean as to his style of speaking. You know that we can often determine the class a man belongs to by his language."<br>
[Whitmer]: "It had no appearance or shape."<br>
[Murphy]: "Then you saw nothing nor heard nothing?"<br>
[Whitmer]: "Nothing, in the way you understand it."<br>
[Murphy]: "How, then, could you have borne testimony that you saw and heard an angel?"<br>
[Whitmer]: "Have you never had impressions?"<br>
[Murphy]: "Then you had impressions as the quaker when the spirit moves, or as a good Methodist in giving a happy experience, a feeling?"<br>
[Whitmer]: "Just so."
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When David Whitmer saw this account published, he published his own rebuttal to John Murphy's portrayal of his witness experience on 19 March 1881. Whitmer vigorously refuted Murphy's account <ref>"David Whitmer Proclamation, 19 March 1881," quoted in Early Mormon Documents 5:69</ref>:
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Unto all Nations, Kindreds, tongues and people unto whom this present Shall come.<br>
It having been represented by one John Murphy of Polo Mo. that I in a conversation with him last Summer, denied my testimony as one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon.<br>
To the end therefore, that he may understand me now if he did not then, and that the world may know the truth, I wish now standing as it were, in the very sunset of life, and in the fear of God, once for all to make this public Statement;<br>
That I have never at any time, denied that testimony or any part thereof, which has so long since been published with that book as one of the three witnesses.<br>
Those who know me best, well know that I have adhered to that testimony.&mdash;<br>
And that no man may be misled or doubt my present views in regard to the same, I do now again affirm the truth of all my statement[s], as then made and published.<br>
He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear; It was no Delusion. What is written is written, and he that readeth let him understand.<ref>David Whitmer, "David Whitmer Proclamation, 19 March 1881," quoted in ''Early Mormon Documents'' 5:69.</ref>
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