Perhaps you may think, I go too far, with my strictures and inuendoes because in your concluding paragraph you say: “It is not inconsistant with your declarations to say, that you have viewed with a lively interest the progress of the , that you have sympathised in their sufferings, under injustice as it appeared to you, which has been inflicted upon them; and that you think, in common with all other religious communities they ought to enjoy the security and protection of the constitution and the laws.” If words were not wind, and imagination not a vapor, such ‘views’ ‘with a lively interest’ might coax out a few Mormon votes; such ‘sympathy’ for their suffering under injustice, might heal some of the sick, yet lingering amongst them; raise some of the dead, and recover some of their property, from ; and finally if thought was not a phantom, we might, in common with other religious communities, ‘you think’, enjoy the security and protection of the constitution and laws! But during ten years, while the Latter Day Saints have bled, been robbed, driven from their own lands, paid oceans of money into the Treasury to pay your renowned self and others for legislating and dealing out equal rights and priveleges to those in common with all other religious communities, they have waited and expected in vain! If you have possessed any patriotism, it has been vailed by your popularity for fear the saints would fall in love with its charms. Blind charity and dumb justice never do much towards alleviating the wants of the needy, but, straws show which way the wind blows. It is currently rumored that your dernier resort for the Latter day Saints, is, to emigrate to , or . Such cruel humanity; such noble injustice; such honorable cowardice; such foolish wisdom, and such vicious virtue, could only eminate from . After the saints have been plundered of three or four millions of land and property, by the people and powers of the sovereign state of ; after they have sought for redress and redemption from the County Court to Congress, and been denied through religious prejudice, and sacerdotal dignity; afier [after] they have builded a city and two temples at an immense expense of labor and treasure; after they have increased from hunereds [hundreds] to hundreds of thousands: and after they have sent missionaries to the various nations of the earth, to Israel according to the predictions of all the holy prophets since the world began, that great plenipotentiary; the renowned Secretary of State, the ignoble duelist, the gambling Senator; and Whig candidate for the presidency, : the wise Kentucky Lawyer, advises the Latter Day Saints to go to to obtain Justice and set up a government of their own; O ye crowned heads among all nations, is not a wise man, and very patriotic! why Great God! to transport 200,000 people through a vast prairie; over , to , a distance of nearly 2000 miles, would cost more than four millions! or should they go by Cape Horn, in ships to , the cost would be more than twenty millions! and all this to save the from inheriting the disgrace of , for murdering and robbing the saints with impunity! and , who make no secret to say, if they get into power, they will carry out ’ exterminating plan to rid the country of the Latter Day Saints, are

I mourn for the depravity of the world; I despise the hypocrisy of christendom; I hate the imbecility of American statesmen; I detest the shrinkage of candidates for office, from pledges and responsiblity; I long for a day of righteousness, when he, “whose right it is to reign, shall judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth,” and I pray God, who hath given our fathers a promise of a [p. 547]