your cool explanatory
note of yesterday is filed among the
passing events of the day, as "quidpro 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
your cool explanatory
note of yesterday is filed among the
passing events of the day, as "quidproquo;" and, under the highly progressive
christian civilization of fire, fighting,
fining and murder; awed by the allwise, 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 information; though truly I was
not appointed by Joseph Smith, to
"Letter from William Wines Phelps, 3 September 1858," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed October 6, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/y79W