Show from salt lake city utah r I 1 A copy of your issue assue 0 of march lw was waa sent to me noe bysar by mr nottingham containing an interesting account of I 1 the settlement of palmyra waind county among other distinguished tin unshed InnabI inhabitants tants of bality you aa refer to the tho family of joseph oseph smith br sr and the rise of mormonism f the tife correlation of some historical inaccuracies as stances might be acceptable to ilour rea readers derse derEL you say that joseph smith jr claimed ll to have obtained the plate in 1829 his bis date dato da te for this avent was september 1827 it itis is well known to many man y that Josep hSmith and oliver cowdery cedery spent two years and p 3 half aalf in trans lating the nook book of hib Alb mormon rmon and getti getting ngIt it printed cowdery who was a black blacksmith smIthy wrote twel tuel manu script from froin the mouth of joeph joseph jo eph smith and then learned the printing business in the office of bf E B granden setting betting much df dr the type typo for the book by his own hand hands the bod boo lowas mostly translated at harmor co I 1 penn renn ond oud was ivas published in 1830 it does not give an account of the ten ton es he were never in america amerita bu huu hub t it is a history of a rem nau t u the tribe df dr joseph the fallacy of the attempt to ic account for the origin of the bookoff book of B mormon in th the B writings of the rev bev sol hol solomon spaulding p a alding a gradd dartmouth is tapp lapp apparent ardnt to siny any one from a L slight r examination of said sald book boote which proved coia cosa conclusively clu ciu thaties author could not have been a graduato graduate from dartmouth or any wiy other institution whery english grammar was vas taught 1 joseph smith jr his nather father and fal fai family nily moved west est early in irr 1831 1631 and not as adu you state in ill 1840 ht resided fri kirtland until as 1837 7 ored cred erecting ting thero there a temple which now noir stands while they resided thele theio joseph and hyrum smith mado made beveral several missions miss lons ions to the state missouri of clements tle tie ments in several moving their families to far ivest vesti caldwell co missouri in the winter of and one bno year after the smiths with the whole of their people were expelled from the state of missouri by an order of odthe the executive being daiv en from lands for which they ey had paid the government of the united states at congress price ceone one dollar and twenty five cents per acre three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars which together with the improvements thereon were a total loss to the latter day saints in 1839 the smiths und and their friends founded the city of Nauvoo hancock county coi col illinois in 1811 it contained twelve thoi thousand mind inhabitants bl and was th tho barden garden spot of the west the city having grown up by the surprising industry of its inhabitants like magic in june 1814 1844 joseph jr and hyrum smith were arrested oni on a charge of treason placed in jail in cart carthage age ago ill iii without an in examination iia lia tion their enemies kno knowing wink that an examination would result in ift their discharge disc haige halge declared that if law could not reach them powder and ball bail should one hundred liu ilu Mired and alla fifty fafty of them blackened their faces surrounded thobal the jail jall and these innocent men were riddled with bullets bullet s by them in illinois and not as you state in missouri in the winter of 1815 1845 6 the mormon people were expelled from the state 0 of f illinois and denied shelter in fil overy every state in the union in the course of two or thieo three years they forced their way into their present location which wasi was then aitho in tho the republic ri Ee public of mexico making new now roads a distance of twe two twelve lif indred hundred miles and erecting bridges and ferry ferny boats boata across rum erous springs and thus they became the power of civilization in the west the statement that the 0 paid by martin harris for printing broke him is evidently an error hirv here mcharris harris purchased land extensively in jack jach jackson son county Aloi ind in ohio he now resides at smithfield cache co utah in comfortable circumstances at the ago agre of respectfully illy llly etc I 1 aril NIMI GE A SMITH cu 1 tiie jhb tile amm aff article lele which tho the foregoing assumes to corr correct act was way copied from the tho democrat A t chron cazon felde ed d coudy jy y journal jjoe be ia you your r olet diet on oar r firs first L 1 parents arents ale ate th gut put m bome home olne oine f |