[, (Viator, pseud.)], Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to the Editor of Boston Daily Bee, , Suffolk Co., MA, 8 Apr. 1843, draft; handwriting of ; three pages; “Truthiana No. 4,” Truthiana, 1843, drafts, CHL.
Sir, The Millenium has commenced. Not ’s, he is too late, the 3d of April has gone bye <and the world rem[ai]ns as it was> and the Millerites <world,> remain as they <it> were<was> I suppose, we dont have many of them in this region; but “Jo. Smiths <the Mormons> Millenium, commenced on the 6[th]Inst <of April.> thus you see that guessed nearer for Jo., than he did for himself this time.
It was thirteen years last thursday since the or “of Jesus Christ,”— or, of the “Mormons” was organized in the N. York, with s only <originally><6 me> consistingof <with only> 6 members. So the mormons <about 4 or 5000 M. assembled thursday> get together,about four or five thousand of them, <but> on the first day of the fou[r]tenth year <of the church,> & sixth day of the fourth month, commonly called April, of in the year <A. D.>— 43— <4 or 5 thousand of those mormons assembled> on the floor of the (is to be, for the walls are only from six to 12 feet high) and coverd the whole establishment so that nothing could be seen but the persons of the Saints, & this, said the prophet, is a “millenium,” “all is peace here”; So I concluded by this that the Mormon Millenium consists in of peace, <as one of its principle ingridants [ingredients]> or as some one has said. I dont know who, there shall be nothing to hurt <or destroy> in all God’s holy mountain; But there seemed to be a little mistake <by some one> in this Millenium just get up, for while < was speaking in his defence, of his p[r]oceedings as > one of the was preaching about the resurrection. the of the who had charge of the meeting, by order of the Mayor, (for you must know these Mormons dont allow any disturbance in meeting; Millenium [p. [1]]