[Footnote 88: "Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism," 27.]
[Footnote 89: "Braden-Kelly Debate," 47.]
[Footnote 90: "Hand Book of Mormonism," 3.]
[Footnote 91: Compendium, 11th Census.]
[Footnote 92: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 37.]
[Footnote 93: "Joseph Smith, the Prophet," by Lucy Smith, 101-2-3.]
In October of this year Pratt went to Ohio, locating at Amherst, thirty miles west of Cleveland[94] and was also located fifty miles west of Kirtland.[95] One of the temptations inducing Pratt's departure from New York was to get to a country where, as he himself expresses it, there is "no law to sweep [away] all the hard earnings of years to pay a small debt."[96] The ethical status of an average country peddler who is willing to leave his native state to avoid the payment of his "small debts" furnishes a fertile immorality in which to plant the seeds of religious imposture.
[Footnote 94: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 27.]
[Footnote 95: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 50.]
[Footnote 96: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 26.]