As the Mormons were the fi[r]st to break the ice, so the p[r]ophet was the fi[r]st to leap <​leapd​> on the steamer, as it came ashore & greet “his old fri[e]nds,” who had been absent some years, & had returnd with their flocks, & <​as​> said the prophet, “like doves to their windows;” Yes <​Joe.—​> the great pophet. sprang on the boat, the fi[r]st plank plank that was thrown out, more like a boy who was hunting his mate, than a great p[r]ophet; so familiar is he in his depotmet [deportment], & I am sure, Sir, it would have warmd your heart, (for it did, mine as much of an infidel as I am) to see the 1000s who had collected <​assembld on the beach​> ready to greet the arrvil of their friends whom they had left in old .

But I must give you an anecdote of related ysteday [yesterday] by an emigr[a]nt from <​who​> stopped a few days from <​in​> ,— “As the great Anti Mormon, had collected rou[n]d him some 12 or 15. Missourians, in a grog shop, trying to persuade them to go with him & kidnap, Joe Snith, one of Jos apostates stepped forward & told them that Jo <​was a terr[i]ble fellow &​> was more than a match for any 30 Missourins they could pick. This made them look daggers at each other, and destroyd s castle in the air in a minut.— <​and th[e]y thoght it best to remain safe while th[e]y​> <​were, so <​&​> Jo is <​here​> “safe yet.”​>

April 15, 1843 [p. [3]]