TO THE EXPONENT:

Having perused the late publication from a verbatim copy of the original "Manuscript Found," I must say that I was surprised to find such a shallow document, purporting to be the "origin" of the Book of Mormon, and written by the renowned reverend, Solomon Spaulding, who has been held up to the world as a man of great learning and piety.

One would think that those claiming relation, and who have been so eager to obtain it to expose "Mormonism," would be thoroughly chagrined when they discover the style, etc., in which this "manuscript story" is written, and wish that it had been burned with other rubbish before it left Honolulu, more especially Mrs. Dickinson, "who is getting up a book to show that he, Spaulding, was the real author of the Book of Mormon," as well as the priests and people who have hashed up this story into various shapes as it suited their vile purposes, from the time that this work called Mormonism was first proclaimed by Joseph Smith the Prophet, to prove that it was a fraud, and that Sidney Rigdon stole the manuscript from a printing office in Pittsburg. It is a well known fact that the Book of Mormon was published before Sidney Rigdon ever heard of Joseph Smith or the 'Book of Mormon,' and we have cause to feel grateful for the exposure of this fiction, which has been the delight of our intolerant and bigoted opposers to harp upon for the last fifty years, as it will give the world an opportunity to judge for themselves of the truth or falsity of this work.

James T. Cobb, who once made an hypocritical profession of faith in "Mormonism," published a most vile and insulting letter to President Taylor, in which he called "Solomon Spaulding a clever, eccentric collegiate," and "author of the (unperverted) romance of the Book of Mormon." Near the close he said: "You say you are for the truth, but how can that be, when you defend the Book of Mormon, which I have proven and can prove to you, sir, to be a lie." "But," using his own words, "no lie can last; it has the seeds of its own death within itself."

The "humiliation" of such is "inevitable" if not here, "beyond the clouds" and "beyond the tomb," when he that loveth, as well as he that maketh a lie shall be judged, and when all disguises and all self-delusions shall be stripped away.

HELEN MAR WHITNEY.