[bold text indicates edits by Thomas Bullock]

Would it not be well for the great Men of the nation, to read the fable of the Partial Judge, and when part of the free Citiz[e]ns of <​a​> state have had been expelled contrary to the constitu[ti]on, mobbed, robbed, plundered, and many murdered, instead of searching into the course taken with Joan<​na​> Southcott, Ann Lee, the French prophets, the Quakers of New England, and rebellious <negroes>​ in the slave states, to hear both sides and then Judge, rather than <​to​> have the mortification to say: "O it is my my bull that has killed your ox— that alters the case. I must enquire into it. And if and if!”

If the general government has no power; to reinstate expelled citizens to their rights, there is a monstrous hypocrite fed and fostered from the hard earness of the people!— A real “Bull Beggars” upheld by sycophants, ​and <although​ you> may wink to the priests to stigmatize; wheedle the drunkards to swear, and raise the hue and cry of Impostor, false prophet, God-dam old Joe Smith, but remember, if the Latter Days Saints are not restored to all their rights, and paid for all their losses according to the known rules of Justice and Judgment, reciprocation and moral honesty among men, that God will come out of his hiding place and vex this nation with a sore vexation— and <yea>​ the red hot consuming​ wrath of an offended God shall Smoke through the nation, with as much distress and woe, as Indenpendenc did <​has blazed​> <​through​> with pleasure and delight. Where is the strength of Government? Where is the patriotism of a Washington, a Warren and Adams? And where is a spark from the watch fire of ’76, by which one candle might be lit that would glimmer upon the confines of democracy? Well may <​it​> be said that one man is not a state; nor one state the Nation. In the days of General [Andrew] Jackson, when France refused the first instalment for spoilations, there was power, force and honor enough to resent injustice and insult and the money came: And Shall Missouri, filled with negro drive[r]s, and white menstealers go “unwhipt of Justice” for ten fold <​◊◊◊ter <​greater​>​> sins than France? No; verily no! . . .