not withstanding they offered double price for our
lands, in thirty days, or sell theirs at the
same rate; for this plain reason that the
whole large county of Jackson would be as
thirty to one, or nearly so, in comparison with
the matter in question and in supposition, for
one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars
to our people, was asking for three hundred
thousand dollars, the exhorbitant sum of six
hundred thousand dollars, taking the land
rich and poor, in thirty days! with the reproach-
able, vicious, unamerican and unconstitutional
proviso that the committee on our part bind
themselves "That no Mormon should ever settle
in Jackson County": and whereas our committee
proposed to the said Jackson Committee (if they
would not grant us our rights otherwise) that
our people would buy the land of those that
were unwilling to live among our people in
that county, and pay them in one year; they
allowing the damage we have sustained in
the loss of a printing office, apparatus and
book work, houses, property, &c to come out of
the purchase money, but no answer returned:
and whereas to show our honest intentions
and awaken the friends of virtue, human-
ity and equal rights, it becomes our duty
not withstanding they offered double price for our
lands, in thirty days, or sell theirs at the
same rate; for this plain reason that the
whole large county of Jackson would be as
thirty to one, or nearly so, in comparison with
the matter in question and in supposition, for
one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars
to our people, was asking for three hundred
thousand dollars, the exhorbitant sum of six
hundred thousand dollars, taking the land
rich and poor, in thirty days! with the reproachable, vicious, unamerican and unconstitutional
proviso that the committee on our part bind
themselves "That no Mormon should ever settle
in Jackson County": and whereas our committee
proposed to the said Jackson Committee (if they
would not grant us our rights otherwise) that
our people would buy the land of those that
were unwilling to live among our people in
that county, and pay them in one year; they
allowing the damage we have sustained in
the loss of a printing office, apparatus and
book work, houses, property, &c to come out of
the purchase money, but no answer returned:
and whereas to show our honest intentions
and awaken the friends of virtue, humanity and equal rights, it becomes our duty