Show AN AK EXPLODED fabrication I 1 REVIVED A correspondent in the north w writes rites as follows 44 seeing an enquiry on the origin af f t the he american indians in the columns of shenew the new york kun hun some time ago qu on which the editor did not throw much light I 1 sent a reply which was published as follows in the weekly sun of dec ath u H W of cavay texas asked ills there any reliable dvid evidence euce going to explain bow the indians came to be in america the reply I 1 would suggest to him and any others who may tie be interested in this subject Is read bead the book of mormon he will at least find it interesting it if be does not think it very reliable H L J fort logan mont 1 I 1 Fol following lowin g W was S the editorial comment ment which a appeared ap pp e ared in the sun the book of mormon throws no light lighton on the subject of any real value everybody knows though the mor mons wont believe that the book ot of mormon was written by the rev solomon spaulding mg in 1810 12 as a romance I 1 to account lor for the peopling of america by the indians he sent the manuscript to a printing office with which sidney bigdon riglos was connected bigdon had access to the manuscript and copied it ft the manuscript was returned to mr spaulding in 1816 he died shortly afterward alter rigdon bigdon had discovered the golden plates on which the book ot of mormon was written in an unknown la language nage and the book had been bublis published ff by bartin martin harris mrs spaulding produced the original manuscript still as H L J says the book of mormon in small I 1 doses is not uninteresting 11 the correspondent also says that he be to Is aware that toe the veritable spaulding dlag i manuscript was not long ions since gince dincov i ered and found to have no lesem blance whatever to the book of mori mud mon but is not familiar with the particulars tic ulars lie he suggests that they be bei reproduced in the maws the spaulding manuscript theory ol of thu the ort origin in ol of the chebook book of mormon has haa been generally eally and necessarily abandoned by those W who bo repudiate the latter as an authentic record recon of the history of the ancient inhabitants of americ i b but t it ap appears ears I 1 t from occasional blunde blunders s sue such as aa that made by the sun un that chat the information regarding the discovery of the paper lc it was based is not so wide as it should be the original manuscript written by mr 1 l is now in oberlin college state ei oj ohio where it can be inspected by the curious an exact copy including all of its crudities has been published by and la is on sale at this office the details of IU its discovery sad and other particulars are incorporated in the pula publishers lishers preface irom which we extract for the benefit of those wag do not believe the testimony of the witnesses to the book of mormon the laef whom david whitmer recently reiterated his bis on oh his bli death bed the history of the discovery of the manuscript can an be told in a few words D I 1 P hulburt an apostate the originator of the fabrication that the book of mormon originated la in mr 8 al dings tale wrote a bitter sonau assault OR he latter day saints sainte io in MM 1836 entitled olem unveiled which wag was published in the name at and by blei E D howe home of Paines gainesville painesville ville ohio during the time hurlbut was gathering ma material terl for this work he obtained from the family of the then deceased clergyman clergy maa the original of the manuscript story but discovering griat it would if pub dished prove fatal to his bis assumptions he sap suppressed pressed it and from that time it was entirely lost sight of until about two years ao ago when a mr L alrice L bice residing ig at honolulu sandwich islands found it among a numerous collection of miscellaneous papers which he be haa asa received from mr howe hiow the publisher of hurlbutt Huri Hurl buts mormon i lam sm up unveiled veiled 11 when in 1839 40 he with his bis partner puren purchased ased from that gentleman the business ess etc of the I 1 desville nes ville telegraph v 7 n 1884 1894 president james H fairchild Fair caUd of aberlin college ohio ohi was paying a visit to mr Rice Ri ceaud sud he be suggested wt bit the latter look through his bis numerous numero oa papers in the hope of finding amongst them some antislavery anti slavery documents ol of value in his bin search lie be disc discovered overtA i a a package marked in pencil on the outside side manuscript story conneaut Conne aut cr creek ek 11 which to their surprise on perusal russ i proved to he be the veritable fe long g lost romance of dr spaulding to which so much undeserved importance had been ignorantly or malicious given at after ter retaining the manuscript some sometime time mr rice bice presented it to oberlin college but before doing so I 1 made an exact copy with all its id i peculiarities of style errors of grammar and orthography altera alteration tiou erasures era etc which copy he be placed I 1 in our oar hands with toe distinct understanding that it should be print edAM published exactly as he had copied it |