do them the justice to say, that I have never found more of the true, gentlemen among any family <​people​> <​among any people,​>;— Entirely free from that sophistry <​in manners deportment,​> which characterises many of the fashionable of the day of civilized Society.— The <​Mormon​> prophet may well be considered— the <​one hundred & first,​> wonder of the age, and the caution too; for if I may judge by a few calls at his office, and frequent exhibitions of his himself in public;— for his offical, The dignity, combined with urbanity with ease, familiarity & urbanity of manner, which characterizes his deportme[n]t; on the Judgme[n]t seat, as mayor of the , as Comomader of the ; as head of President of a numerous church; as head of noble family, & as a general business calculator, is unsurpassed: in my observation: but <​this​> appear <​things are is​> not sufficet to occupy his mind; his eye <​appears to​> glances with the velocity of lightning to the utmost bo[u]nds of earth.— & he compasses other wo[r]lds in his imagnation, or revelation (true or false, Jud[g]e ye,) never loosing sight of the Signs in the heaven, the commotion of eleme[n]ts, the contentions of nations, on and every even minute circumstances which of any <​every​> description, which he supposes will have an influence on the happiness, misery misery or destiny, of himself, or his fellow men, and especially, of those his followers who depend on <​refere to​> him for counsil,