Historians G. A. Smith & W. Woodruff, Dear Brethren, your cool explanatory note of yesterday is filed among the passing events of the day, as "quid pro quo;" and, under the highly progressive christian civil^i^zation of fire, fighting, fining and murder; awed by the all- wise, all powerful arm of the great American Tirshatha, sent by the Czar of the United States, Nebuchanazar, to rule the kings and queens; or guard the Lord's anointed by the pacific innuendo's of bumshells, bayonets and the softly manufactured German and Irish, toys, dexterously kept in motion by the shining wax dolls of West point, for the sensible and long meaning gratification of all Israel, and Indians, I am very much obliged to you both for the in- formation; though truly I was not appointed by Joseph Smith, to