Great Salt Lake city,
Weather office,
September 3^rd 1858.

Historians G. A. Smith & W. Woodruff,

Dear Brethren,

your cool explanatory
note of yesterday is filed among the
passing events of the day, as "quid pro
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

Great Salt Lake city, Weather office, September 3rd 1858.

Historians G. A. Smith & W. Woodruff,

Dear Brethren,

your cool explanatory note of yesterday is filed among the passing events of the day, as "quid pro quo;" 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