Letter to Solomon Copeland, 19 March 1844
Nauvoo
Col Solomon Copeland
Dear Sir
I take this
method to break that silence which hath prevailed
for a length of time between us And also to
make a request of you of an important nature
The following reasons are some among the many that
promps me to this course. When I was a stranger in a
strange land Advocating principles of the fulness of the–
everlasting Gospels of the Son of God Although as true as
any principle that ever emenated from the tr^h^rone of Jehovah
yet the most of all Doctrins unpopular with that
class whose minds are limited to the sectarial notions
& traditions of the present generation instead of expending
to receive the revelations of Jesus Christ which doctrine freequetly
subjected me with my friends to unfair opposstion persecution
warrents &c It was in the midst of this order of things that
I found Col Solomon Copeland among the first to step forth
as a Gentleman, friend & Republican to assist us in maint-
aning our rights & ^you^ not ownly treated me & my friends
with common civility & sociability But all of our
wants were bountifuly supplyed under your hospitable
roof. This Sir was not all I discovered that whenever any
principle was presented that was high, Noble, & glorious that
when carried out would have a tendency to ennoble
man & exhalt him to the highest grade ^degree^ of usefulness,
