intelligence & glory that was ever designed for man by the
God of heaven that it would strike a cord & vibrate your
soul as with the rapidity of light[n]ing yea the silent Language
of which was, this is congenial with my spirit & the sentiments
of my heart. And whenever in my perigrinations I have
met with any master spirits of this kind I have marked
it in my mind & laid it up in my memory for
a future day, permit me Sir to say that inasmuch
as you are one of the most prominant ones with whi[c]h
I have met in my travels I feel disposed to express my
mind freely to you upon the subject which I have
in view. Sir Those primary principle appertaining to the
Kingdom of God & the salvation of man which we taught
in our spiritual Infancy & in which you seemed to take
a deep interest are of no less consequence now than there
in fine evry day that rolls over our heads adds to its mag-
nitude & importance for whenever any great & Noble purpose
work or plan is put into operation its light & influence
is seen & felt more & more by the Nations of the Earth
Much Sir has been said concerning us as a people, our
motives & principles have all the day long been misrepresented
by wicked & designing men. We as a people are not known in
our true light I would to God we were I would to God
that president Joseph Smith was known in his true light
to all the wise, the good, the virtuous, the meek & the hone[s]t
in heart & they would be lauded by a portion of the same spirit
that is like fire shut up in his bones He ownly kneed to be known
by men to be haled as one born out of due time to frown
upon oppession, plead the cause of the opp[r]essed, as the universal
intelligence & glory that was ever designed for man by the
God of heaven that it would strike a cord & vibrate your
soul as with the rapidity of lightning the silent Language
of which was, this is congenial with my spirit & the sentiments
of my heart. And whenever in my perigrinations I have
met with any master spirits of this kind I have marked
it in my mind & laid it up in my memory for
a future day, permit me Sir to say that inasmuch
as you are one of the most prominant ones with which
I have met in my travels I feel disposed to express my
mind freely to you upon the subject which I have
in view. Sir Those primary principle appertaining to the
Kingdom of God & the salvation of man which we taught
in our spiritual Infancy & in which you seemed to take
a deep interest are of no less consequence now than there
in fine evry day that rolls over our heads adds to its magnitude & importance for whenever any great & Noble purpose
work or plan is put into operation its light & influence
is seen & felt more & more by the Nations of the Earth
Much Sir has been said concerning us as a people, our
motives & principles have all the day long been misrepresented
by wicked & designing men. We as a people are not known in
our true light I would to God we were I would to God
that president Joseph Smith was known in his true light
to all the wise, the good, the virtuous, the meek & the honest
in heart & they would be louded lauded by a portion of the same spirit
that is like frie shut up in his bones Heavenly kneed to be [illegible]
ly men to be haled as one born out of due time to frown
upon oppession, plead the cause of the oppessed, as the universal