If you can by any supernatural means elect Brother Joseph President of these U[nited] States, I have not a doubt but that he would govern the people and administer the laws in good faith, and with righteous intentions, but I see no natural means by which he has the slightest chance of receiving the votes even of one state.

If the object of his friends be to aid the Cause of Mormonism in foreign lands, or in this Country among a certain class of persons, by holding its chin up for the highest office in the gift of the people, then I think they are somewhat in the right track, but if they are aiming in reality at that high office then I must say that at present they, in my opinion, are on a wild goose chase. Fifty years from this time he would have perhaps somewhat of a chance from the thought of his own people in the states. You appear to forget my dear Doctor that every mans house is against the Mormons & the Mormons against every man in a religious sense.

Is it not designed that the Mormon religion shall swallow up all others? Does it not profess to house the lost Priest-hood, that is to usher in the Millennium? Think you not when that the world will oppose it shoulder to shoulder & arms to arms?

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