President Smith remarked in relation to those who give in property for the temple we want it brought to the proper source that it may be put on the Church Book So that in the endowment those whose names are on Book shall have the prefference. As to politics I care but little about the Presidential Chair, I would not give half as much for the office as I would for the one I now hold, but as the world have used the power of Government to oppress & persecute us, it is right for us to use it for the protection of our rights. when I got hold of the eastern paper & see how popular I am I am afraid myself that I shall be elected, But if I should be, I would not say that your cause is just & I could not do any thing for you. What I said in relation to the annexation of texas is with some unpopular the people are opposed to it, I will take this objection away. the opposition is because it is filled up with Slavery, now I wish to turn the argument it is the vary reason why it ought to be received in order to watch over them of the greatest <​two​> evils we should reject the greatest

The president of Texas sayes if you do not receive us in the United States we will go to the British this would certainly be bad policy for this nation the British are now throughout that whole Country trying to bribe all they can. How much better it is to be to a little expens than to have the indians & British upon us & destroy us all, we should grasp all the territory we can and I know, much that I do not tell I have had bribes offered me, but I have rejected them, The government will not receive any thing from me they are self sufficient, but they must go to Hell & work out their own salvation with fear & trembling. as soon as texas was annexed I would liberate two or three states & pay them for their slaves & let them go to Mexico whare they are mixed blacks &c I would also receive Canida & stand by them & many other usful remarks He made