followed an illustrious predecessor (). says he has no doubt but that the substantial features of Daniel’s testimony are true — if so why tell you not to believe him— he goes farther, he says Daniels has made statements which ought to impeach him, in any court— and he has written a lying infamous book, yet he says he believes his testimony is substantially true. goes farther. He acquits all persons of bribing Daniels— or of trying to do so— but you and I cannot doubt it. He is so [blank] and [blank] that even complained of his [blank] being [blank] than he was. Daniels is a most consumate hypocrite— he cares for neither Mormons or anti-Mormons and if he could get his $500 he would, to use his own language, give them all by bail. No human mind can doubt but Daniels has been bribed. He cares for neither God nor man. He was in the market, and no man can doubt but some hell-defying scoundrels in have brought him up. I do not charge the Mormons as a body. Daniels has an interview with the according to his own story— then he has a chance— he sees Smith and communes with him. He then joins the Mormon church. This was just before the last term of the court here. And Daniels has fared sumptuously ever since, though he neither toils nor spins yet he is a cooper by trade. too finds it convenient to become permanently located in and that too just about the same time Daniels goes there, and he too fares sumptuously. He is fed by an unseen hand. He follows no business for a living. Is, to use his own language, professionally a loafer and has followed loafing ever since he went to , and he complains that Daniels has been treated better than he. No man— no, not even the Mormons themselves can doubt that those two witnesses have been subpoened [suborned?].