Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 2: A Monthly Magazine Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-Day Saints; April, 1881 There are three statements in the arti cle to which I wish particularly to refer: they are those on which the author stig matizes our Church as being built upon foundations of animalism, ignorance and disloyalty. To the charge of disloyalty, let me reply by pointing to that magnificent ex ample of patriotism in which a driven people, dependent upon their working men, performed that which our enemies at Washington had exacted because they thought it beyond human nature for any people so situated to perform. 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.