satiate himself upon his prey and then sneak back into the brambles in order that he might conceal himself in his well tried skin with the wool on. We are well aware that there is a certain set of priests and satellites and mobbers that would fain make all the world belive that we are the dogs that barked at the howling of this wolf that made such havock among the sheep who when he retired he howled and bleated at such a desperate rate that if one could have been there he would have thought that all the wolves whether wrapped up in sheepskins or goat skins or in any other skins and in fine all the beasts of the forest were awfully alarmed and catching the scent of innocent blood they sallied forth with one tremendous howl and crying of all sort and such a howling and such a tremenduous havock never was known, such a piece of inhumanity and relentless cruelty and barbarity cannot be found in all the annals of history. These are the characters who would make the world believe that we had committed murder by makeing an attact upon this howling wolf while we were at home and in our beds and asleep and knew nothing of the transaction any more than we know now what is going on in China while we are within these walls. Therefore we say again unto you in these things they have represoted us falsely. Was it for committing adultery we are aware that foul slander has gone abroad for it has been reiterated in our ears, these are falsehoods also; Renegade mormon dissenters are abroad in the earth and spread various foul and libellous reports against us thinking thereby to gain the friendship of the world because they know that we are not of the world and the world hates us therefore they make a fool of these characters and by their lies do us all the injury they can and after that they hate them worse than they do us because they find them to be liars traitors all around and sycophants & such characters God hates. We cannot love them the world hates them and we sometimes think that satan ought to be ashamed of them. We have heard that it is reported by some that some of us should have said that we not only dedicated our property but our families also to the Lord and satan taking the advantage [p. [5]]