Sir:— In my last, I touched upon the vested rights of the of the Saints, as they appear upon the face of the charter— and it may be proper, hereafter, to go further into the merits of that document, for I hold the maxim good, that the is interested in the union; but at this present time, I have another subject on the tapis which more immediately concerns the wise and honest portions of the American people. I reason from facts; no matter who may cry, “hush!” As to Mormonism, and the “disgrace” which the state of inherits from her barbarous treatment, and unlawful extermination of the Mormon people, from their homes, the great day has already ushered in— and the voice of a Mormon is not only heard, setting forth his own rights, and preaching the gospel of the son of God, in power and demonstration, incontrovertibly from revelation, in every city and hamlet, in our wide spread American free states, but other realms and Kingdoms hear the same tidings: even the Indias, Australia, pacific Islands, Great Britian, Ireland, Sctoland, , and the holy land, where God himself once spake and Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, have heard a Mormon;— And all this within the short space of twelve or fourteen years: yea, and measures have been taken that Russia shall hear the ‘Watchmen Cry.’

Now, sir, “what has been done can be done,” and I shall not be surprised if the Mormons undertake to cope with the world. Virtue and truth are twin sisters of such winning charms that honest men of every nation, kindred [p. 1]