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Excerpt from History of the Late Persecution Inflicted by the State of Missouri Upon the Mormons I had paid the forfeit due to crime. Instead of being chosen ambassadors of the High, would have been inmates at solitary cells. But their con due stamps their characters in their true colors. More than a year since it was ascertained that they had been tampering with our slaves, and endeavoring to sow dissensions and to raise seditious amongst them. Of this their Mormon leaders were informed, and said that they would deal with any of their members who should 'again in like case offend. But how specious are appearances In a late number of the Star, published in Independence by the leaders'ofthis sect, there is an articleinviting free negroes and mulattoes from other states to become Mormons tind remove and settle among us. This exhibitsthcm in still more odious colors. It manifests a desire on the part'of their society to in ict 'onour society an injury that they knew would be to us insupportable, and one bf the surest means of driving us from the county; for it would requirejnone of, the su pernatural gifts that they pretend to, to see that the introduction ofisuch a castamong us would corrupt our blacks, and instigate them to bloodshed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."