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Warsaw Message — September 27, 1843…

“ We have always cherished a perfect hatred of Hypocrisy and Knavery in all its forms, but especially when it is found under the cloak of Religion; consequently we utterly despise the whole system of Mormonism, from its great Founder and Prophet down to the lowest clap-trap fooleries, devised to gull the ignorant and unwary. ”
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Warsaw Message — September 27, 1843…

“ With that Mormonism which assumes to control the rights and liberties of the citizen--which sets itself up as a law, in the place of the laws of the State--and which, under the garb of great Patriotism, is habitually trampling on the most sacred institutions of the country--it is with this kind of Mormonism the people of this section of country, and particularly of this county, have now to deal.
To what extent this usurpation has been pressed--or how far the rights of the citizen have been invaded, we shall not now stop to enquire. The fact, itself, no honest and unprejudiced mind can doubt.
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Warsaw Message — September 27, 1843…

“ In that capacity they make serious charges against a people who have lately come amongst them, and between whom and the old citizens, it will not be denied, there does exist a strong animosity. Well--what is the answer to these charges? Are they met and repelled? Are they denied? Or is there even an attempt at denial? No--nothing of the kind. But instead, a large amount of rubbish, about 'Hannibal and Carthage'--'the Alps alias the prairie'--'our modern Appolos'--and 'Nigger stories,' is heaped upon them. Of the Prophet himself we should not have expected any other sort of a reply. ”
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