John Taylor's anti-US Government comments from August 1857.

Date
1858
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
John Taylor
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

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

Scribe/Publisher
Asa Calkin
People
John Taylor
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

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 . . .

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