Show A new bobill boob we are arc favored with tho the prospectus of anew work on the origin of mormonism its rise and progress to be by D appleton co in it says cays the author of the history about to app appear r was himself cognizant of the fiets facts and incidents he relates in regal d to the origin inana and development of the imposture im 1 church chur ch beyond these he be hal haa collected from a great arditty of gour cee a comple and co connected account of mormonism as it has progressed since its early founder fonn deis s and ana fol lowers lowera left this thia state and since their departure ae from nauvoo those 0 ullo o can from personal knowledge know ledga or of the early history of this delusion are api 0 I 1 packing pa away the world etolil bould have their testimony when at book a app peara carB it will he be found to bartho bw lar the tho itt zeta of entire truthfulness awaits bod if facts bearing upon the most stu etu religious imposture ira posture known to this century will alike and interest tile public at large if the author can shed any now light upon the subject all right let him write away but if it is to be a catchpenny sensational production it will do more harm than good and will not be i cad with much favor except by those who never saw sair a live mormon in their life we dont go a cent on those book writers who say all manner of ill ed and naughty 0 things about people long since turned t tj dust or distant thousands of miles milea away jf if this ia is a sample of the style in which the events of the past at a c done up we predict a dull sale for the lii atory in these parts sm th s chis his fat fathers liers family all resided in the llie neighborhood tile they y werl i emu kable only for worthlessness people whom nobody cared to know jou joe h wai s a villa village villac 0 c va 6 aoel a 1 about stores staves and tavern liking everything better than use fill fal work wather wh alier he became a prophet on his own on motion or at the suggestion estion of it anic having wore more quiet cunning and education I 1 but no more principle than lii himself melr we cannot say 3 but lie became one in pretension A deposed clergyman named rigdon did the first mormon 11 pre preaching aching one or two honest farmers farmer of if palmyra were drawn into the sc scheme lieme and nearly nearl Y im impoverished ed themselves by furn furnishing ashing the money to p asuit atit thi golden bitile bible all translated from vie tle mysterious ioas plates which smith had dug out of mormon anoll hill IN we c suggest 0 that t the lie acrimonious and disparaging 0 tone s sa common to book writers on mormonism be smoothed down a trifle or better still entirely dispense I 1 u iti unless they are arc writing t jr ir glory and not for the cash money yo no catholic ever became converted from li s faith by reading the blood and thunder launched against popery popit li mummery mami iery popish idolatry etc nor can it readily be shown that protestants ire are in the habit of becoming con cried from their faith by being ulbia aided as heretics and there is a grand error in ill that style abat wont win in the these mountains it ii i i not the way to appeal to ollea reason by starting starling out with that kind of an argument that is apt to lill our subjects before you have ru fah ily ly begun As well might Hr glimn young heber C kimball and others or of the mormon church try to make converts of the gentiles of this place by abusing alining and vilifying 0 the tiemen men and callin calling b the women cruel bad names which they do as for mr P tucker to succeed by dishing up mormonism in a mai on ant style it will not convert them deiy y fast from tho clith fi ith of joe smith and can do but little ittle good when wo we get the book we will pay or respects ts to its merits pvc vc 91 give this portion of the pros clr t cr what it is worth but comparatively few are arc aware that the imposture 1 iad its beginning its very first peep 9 in in wayne county in this state such is the f fact act and evi i di nee lice ol of it is abundant specific and I 1 ie e liable 1 I 1 here are arc hundreds in new york who were per personally conally bogni lilt int delusion when it was it no b ager 0 than a mans hand 7 very many in the neighborhood of palmyra who knew joe smith and his family long before lie thought of being a prophet and who remember the ahe thousand and one ridiculous nothings r marked the inc inapt pt on odthe of the imposture enterprise ter and its development until ift r a y ear or two of public disgust when the h ful gathea ed themselves together to 0 ether aiom wayno and ontario counties in tac promised land of the litter ditter day S t tints ints first in ohio then in missouri and afterwards at nauvoo illinois ls where joe lost his life in the c anty jail by the assassination of an ini populace cc all this prior to the mormon ali bight to the wilds of utah 31 mormon ormon hill from which shiell smith pretended to exhume the golden plates reve re velling ailing to bini himself self the will dillof of b heaven caven is but a letlo I 1 tile way out of palmyra and if we mistake not the hole from which the plates to have been taken is not yet wholly obliterated |