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I Am The Greatest Advocate Of The Constitution....the Only Fault I Find With The Constitution Is, It Is Not Broad Enough To Cover The Whole Ground. Although It Provides That All Men Shall Enjoy Religious Freedom, Yet It Does Not Provide The Manner By Which That Freedom Can Be Preserved, Nor For The Punishment Of Government Officers Who Refuse To Protect The People In Their Religious Rights, Punish Those Mobs, States, Or Communities Who Interfere With The Rights Of The People On Account Of Their Religion. Its Sentiments Are Good, But It Provides No Means Of Enforcing Them.

While Other Men Were Peacefully Following Their Vocations And Extending Their Interests They [the Saints In Clay County] Have Been Deprived Of The Right Of Citizenship, Prevented From Enjoying Their Own, Charged With Violating The Sacred Principles Of Our Constitution And Laws.

If I Revealed All That Has Been Made Known To Me, Scarcely A Man On This Stand Would Stay With Me.' And 'brethren, If I Were To Tell You All I Know Of The Kingdom Of God, I Do Know That You Would Rise Up And Kill Me.

Take Away The Book Of Mormon And The Revelations, And Where Is Our Religion? We Have None.

One Of The Grand Fundamental Principles Of Mormonism Is To Receive Truth, Let It Come From Whence It May.