...MORMON DECEPTIONS.

...about Jo Smith and the origin of the Mormon humbug [and] the earlier history of the Smiths. -- They were always considered by their own townsmen as a lazy, vicious, profane, unlearned, superstitious family.... spending most of the time not required for the provision of their immediate wants, in digging in the hills of Manchester for money, under the often-repeated impression that Capt. Kidd or some other person of wealth, had there deposited their treasures.... -- As for Jo, he is altogether too stupid to write an ordinary newspaper paragraph of common sense, as the columns of the Mormon paper will bear abundant testimony...

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