Americans! This mighty and strange work has been commenced in your midst, and must roll on in fulfilment.
You are now invited, and earnestly intreated, to investigate it thoroughly, and to aid and participate in its accomplishment.
You ask. What can be done?
We answer: Protect the Saints; give them their rights; [p.11] extend the broad banner of the Constitution and laws over their homes, cities, fire-sides, wives, and children; that they may CEASE to be BUTCHERED, MARTYRED, ROBBED, PLUNDERED, AND DRIVEN, and may peaceably proceed in the work assigned them by their God.
Execute the Law upon the offenders, and thus rid your garments of INNOCENT BLOOD.
Pass acts, also, to indemnify them in the millions they have lost, by your cruel and criminal neglect.
Contribute liberally of your substance for their aid, and for the fulfilment of their mission.
Let the Government of the United States also continue to gather together, and to colonize the tribes and remnants of Israel (the Indians), and also to feed, clothe, succor, and protect them, and endeavor to civilize and unite; and also to bring them to the knowledge of their Israelitish origin, and of the fulness of the gospel which was revealed to, and written by, their forefathers on this land; the record of which has now come to light.
It is these records, together with the other scriptures, and the priesthood and authority now conferred upon the Saints, that will effect their final conversion and salvation; while the creeds of man, and the powerless forms and dogmas of sectarianism will still remain powerless and inefficient.
The Lord has spoken, and who can disannul it? He has uttered his voice, and who can gainsay it? He has stretched out his arm, and who can turn it back?