His Honor fined a hopeful son of Blackstone $10,00 for abusing a witness with impoper qu[e]stions. There is a fine field here now for— the hopeful sons of Galen & Blackstone; for opposition is the life of business; & we read that when the sons of God came to appear befre the Lord Satan came also among them—, this being the situatotin of . it, of course, requires many of these <​professionls​> dour creatures to keep things strait. & the Mormons think it takes their prophet to keep these <​operators​> Strait, & he actually fined a limb of the Law $10,00 for abusing a witness with impr[o]per qu[e]stions.

The credit of the Mormons is good for almost any thing but righteousness, &, of that they profess much less than many of their more oppulent neighbours. Their <​They​> <​have​> credit for steali[n]g is boundless,— to an <​in​>finite amount, so if any one wishes to make a big game at slight <​of​> hand, he has only to say cry Mormon, & he can be introduced to the whole myste[r]y. Some of the wholsale speculators have been reporting that there is a combination to steal and transfer <​transport​> property from place to place— th[r]ough all this Section of .— & other parts of the Union,— and that the mormons are at the head of the heap, but the way the Mayor has given them a hint of some things in the last wasp— is a loud caution to sly <​slippery​> fingers.—

April 1. 1843} [p. [4]]