[, (Viator, pseud.)], Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to the Editor of Boston Daily Bee, , Suffolk Co., MA, 1 Apr. 1843, draft; handwriting of ; three pages; “Truthiana No. 3,” Truthiana, 1843, drafts, CHL.
his honor, and if he is <were> as <as> guilty as the Gothamites & themany other ites, report him to be, I think somebody might have p[r]oved <f◊◊t it before> him so before now.— for he stated in court 2 day since that the <he> had been arrayed before the courts of his 65 times, & no evil has yet been proved, <agnt [against] him>
His Honor fined a hopeful son of Blackstone $10,00 for abusing a witness with impoper qu[e]stions. There is a fine field here now for— the hopeful sons of Galen & Blackstone; for opposition is the life of business; & we read that when the sons of God came to appear befre the Lord Satan came also among them—, this being the situatotin of . it, of course, requires many of these <professionls> dourcreatures to keep things strait. & the Mormons think it takes theirprophet to keep these <operators> Strait, & he actually fined a limb of the Law $10,00 for abusing a witness with impr[o]per qu[e]stions.
The credit of the Mormons is good for almost any thing but righteousness, &, of that they profess much less than many of their more oppulent neighbours. Their <They> <have> credit for steali[n]g isboundless,— to an <in>finite amount, so if any one wishes to make a big game at slight <of> hand, he has only to say cry Mormon, & he can be introduced to the whole myste[r]y. Some of the wholsale speculators have been reporting that there is a combination to steal and transfer <transport> property from place to place— th[r]ough all this Section of .— & other parts of the Union,— and that the mormons are at the head of the heap, but the way the Mayor has given them a hint of some things in the last wasp— is a loud caution to sly <slippery> fingers.—