Letter to Editor, 26 July 1843, Draft
Letter to Editor, 26 July 1843, Draft
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[, (Viator, pseud.)], Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to the Editor of Boston Daily Bee, , Suffolk Co., MA, 26 July 1843, draft; handwriting of ; three pages; “Truthiana No. 8,” Truthiana, 1843, drafts, CHL.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Letter to Editor, 22–ca. 27 Apr. 1843.
right peaceably to assemble for their common good, and to apply to those vested with the powers of government for redress of grievances: and that their right to bear arms in defence of themselves, and of the s, cannot be questioned.”
This very <over> wise right of gun fence was made, as I have learned, was made for breachy Indians, but was used by as a sine qua non, ‘pointed with steel and burning with brimstone,’ to exterminate the Mormons. Truly may we ask, What is right? and what is law, contrary to the Constitution? The Legislature of acknowledged the or exterminating order of as Constitutional, and appropriated more than $200,000 to pay the drivers and robbers, and I may as well say, mobbers of the mormons for service rendered the in 1838. O gladius! O crumena!
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