We recieved your note of Sept 11th.
complaining of a [illegible] in the history of Lyman
Wight, that he considered [illegible] transgression for
selling land in Jackson Co.
We would be very sorry to publish any thing
that is not correct, and especially to injure the char-
acter or feelings of any of our brethren, but the History
of Joseph Smith Feby. 5th, 1858 stresses that "Elder
Lyman Wight stated, that he considered all other accu-
sations of minor importance compared to their selling
their lands in Jackson county; that they (Phelps and Whitmer) had set an example which all the Saints were
liable to follow. He said that it was a hellish principle,
and that they had flatly denied the faith in so doing."
Now, whether the fact was so, or not, is not the
point at issue, but the above shows that Lyman considered it was so, and that is all that is stated;
and as this history was compiled while you were
one of the Historians, we consider the written authority
sufficient reason for our declining to publish a contradic-
tion of the statement and particularly as it now leaves
"Lyman to lie on his own hook."