FRIDAY, .
TO THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, AND TO ALL
THE HONORABLE PART OF COMMU-
NITY.
It becomes my duty to lay before the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and the
public generally, some important facts relative
to the conduct and character of Dr. JOHN C.
BENNETT, who has lately been expelled from the
aforesaid church; that the honorable part of
community may be aware of his proceedings,
and be ready to treat him and regard him as he
ought to be regarded, viz: as an imposter and
base adulterer.
It is a matter of notoriety that said Dr. J. C.
Bennett, became favorable to the doctrines taught
by the elders of the church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter Day Saints, and located himself in the city of
Nauvoo, about the month of August 1840, and
soon after joined the church. Soon after it was
known that he had become a member of said
church, a communication was received at Nau-
voo from a person of respectable character, and
residing in the vicinity where Bennett had liv-
ed. This letter cautioned us against him, set-
ting forth that he was a very mean man, and
had a wife, and two or three children in
McConnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio; but
knowing that it is no uncommon thing for good
men to be evil spoken against, the above letter
was kept quiet, but held in reserve.
He had not been long in Nauvoo before he be-
gan to keep company with a young lady, one of
our citizens; and she being ignorant of his hav-
ing a wife living, gave way to his addresses, and
became confident, from his behavior towards her,
that he intended to marry her; and this he gave
her to understand he would do. I, seeing the
folly of such an acquaintance, persuaded him to
desist; and, on account of his continuing his
course, finally threatened to expose him if he
did not desist. This, to outward appearance,
had the desired effect, and the acquaintance be-
tween them was broken off.
But, like one of the most abominable and de-
praved beings which could possibly exist, he on-
ly broke off his publicly wicked actions, to sink