John Taylor's anti-US Government comments from August 1857.
John Taylor, "Difference Between The Spirit of Zion and the Spirit of The World—Doings in The States, Etc," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Asa Calkin, 1858), 5:118
I said, We have been outrageously imposed upon by United States' officials. They send out every rag-tag and bob-tail, and every mean nincompoop they can scrape up from the filth and scum of society, and dub him a United States' officer . . .