I called Satudy & Mondy
at your Office to see you a few mom[en]ts I leave
this afternoon for New York. The subject I wished to
save a few words upon was this I have discovered of late
occasinally a threat made by the Editors of the various
Journals aganst the inhabitants of the State of Deserett
conveying an idea that they are vary Hostile to the Gover[n]ment
& that th[e]y take up & try men for being engaged in
the Missoure war or but I wish it to be disti[n]ctly
understood that all these things are composed & put forth
at this critical time for political effect in order to
preijudice the public mind & govnmet against us, d[u]ring this
session of congress supposing that the Citizens of Deseret are
at to great a distance to contradict Such any statemnt that made may be made. and this is the ownly true light
in which such reports should be [considered]let them
eminate from whatever source they may for the Citizens
of Deseret have manifested their attachmet to the goverment & Constitution of [our] Country by leaving their families [upon] the prairie & going into the Mexican war at the
call of the presideExcutive of the Nation