JS, Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to , Fort Hill, Pickens Co., SC, 2 Jan. 1844. Version drafted 2 Jan. 1844; handwriting of ; docket and notation in handwriting of ; eleven pages; JS Collection, CHL.
<a> state have had been expelled contrary to the constitu[ti]on, mobbed, robbed, plundered, and many murdered, instead of searching into the course taken with Joan<na> Southcott, Ann Lee, the French prophets, the Quakers of New England, and rebellious <negroes> in the slave states, to hear both sides and then Judge, rather than <to> have the mortification to say: "O it is my my bull that has killed your ox— that alters the case. I must enquire into it. Andifandif!”
If the general government has no power; to reinstate expelled citizens to their rights, there is a monstrous hypocrite fed and fostered from the hard earness of the people!— A real “Bull Beggars” upheld by sycophants, <and although> you may wink to the priests to stigmatize; wheedle the drunkards to swear, and raise the hue and cry of Impostor, falseprophet, God-damoldJoeSmith, but remember, if the are not restored to all their rights, and paid for all their losses according to the known rules of Justice and Judgment, reciprocation and moral honesty among men, that God will come out of his hiding place and vex this nation with a sore vexation— and <yea> [p. [6]]