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
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compile the History, of which you
mention till 1842. I am contended
to "let Lyman lie on his own hook".
While, not having denied the faith, I
hold on to what I have in Jackson
co. and the truth as a matter of
fact in full fruition, and fond
hope of "all right" in the End: for Solomon said, in Ecclesiastez 12:13—
"To end the whole matter, We must obey besides fearing the Gods, then
according to its precepts, takeheed
for this sustained the first man."
So, with the blessings of a God that
never errs nor "lies," I hope and pray
for a time of greater perfection when
the great day of grog mouthed, pistol-
fisted, bum-shell-bodied, gold
eyed gentiles, and their snake
fanged allies, the mormon apostates,
will be whistling the Devils Reel
round a coal-pit barbacue
of skunks, roasting in brimstone
and devils-dung for the "last
supper of the damn`d; after
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which I think "lies" and hypocrisy
will be out of fashion. you per-
cieve by this feint reply that I can
hardly get my mind, and pen to
go off—having been so long absent
from the council fire of the
nobles of Israel, who seem to be
patiently waiting for the still small
voice to whisper itisfinished!
so may God bless you in every effort
you make for truth.