Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions, manifestations,

and miracles.

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Garrett

Durkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Professor

Richard Leduke. Well, Garrett, in this week's podcast, we're going to start something a little

bit new. As we have grown in popularity to four, possibly seven listeners, we've decided

to go all in and have a sponsored segment.

So we're going to start off with Postmaster General Amos Kendall's mailbag.

You understood how sponsorships work, correct?

Well, we're going to do things a little bit differently.

We're going to name it and then go after the family and try and see if they want to give us some money for it. And we figured if we're going to have a mailbag, we should name it after not just a postmaster

general, but one of the worst.

But literally, yeah, one of the ones who's the most notorious, which suggests what we think of

the mailbag?

Is that?

Well, who was Amos Kendall?

Well, Amos Kendall was one of Andrew Jackson's appointees as a postmaster.

Now, he did some things that you might just call, you know, political chicanery,

such as deliberately instructing his postmasters to deliver papers that were unfavorable to Jackson slower than papers that

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