do to reject it. They have spilt the blood of our prophets and sought to kill us off that there should not be one left to tell the tale. If you go from the highest officer of the to the lowest citizen the answer would be “destroy Mormonism” from the face of the earth, and I have yet to learn whether there was not a combination from the Legislatures Legislators to the lickskittles to destroy the prophets. The scriptures tell us that the times of the gentiles should be fulfilled and at that time the Lord would turn to his people, and “then I the Lord will gather them and plant them in their own land and they shall no more be plucked up”. This day we have one of them in our midst to carry the tidings to them. In a little while—when the nations are agitating themselves with strife the powers that be will rise up against themselves, and the slaves will rise up against their masters, and then will the red men [p. [56]]
Likely a term meaning lowly individuals. The similar contemporary terms “lickskillet” and “lickspittle” referred to contemptible individuals or parasites. (“Lickskillet,” in Green, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, 1368; “Lickspittle,” in Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, 2:15; see also, for example, Stephen Burnett, Orange Township, OH, to Lyman Johnson, 15 Apr. 1838, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 65.)
A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinkers’ Jargon, and Other Irregular Phraseology. Edited by Albert Barrere and Charles G. Leland. 2 vols. [London]: Ballantyne, 1889–1890.