"Then you see, madam, that didn't please Governor Boggs.

Here was the militia of his State shooting down his own good, honest Christian voters who keep him in office, that's Gilliam's men, and all the mob; so Boggs gets a lot of his men in all parts of the country to write him letters saying what dreadful crimes the Mormons are committing.

These letters will no doubt pass into history as a genuine account of your people's doings.

Well! well! I wouldn't shock your prejudices, but I'd like just to point out by the way that it's all done in the name of religion.

There's Boggs has got an old mother who spends a lot of her time praying that the purity of the American religion may not be corrupted by the awful doctrines of Joe Smith." The old man shook his head and rubbed his thin gray curly hair again with a smile of constrained patience.