[ Full-text transcription of: Letter from A.V. B. Orr, Pennsylvania to Governor Reynolds, Jefferson City, Mo ]
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Penssylvania
A.V. B on reques-
=ting copy of mormon
testimony
Copy Sent Aug: 27 1841
J. L. Minor
July 19th (Free, crossed out)
Chester Co. Pa
To His Excellency
The Governor of
(
Steels
Ville
Sir,
Without any previous introduction I take the
liberty of addressing a letter to you on a subject
which from the accounts in the papers must be
of some importance to your State. The Mormons
have been preaching through the State of
&
order to join their Standard, men who from their want
of education are capable of any act however bad. Those
individuals thus proselyted are taught that the State
of
guilty of an unpardonable sin & is their lawful
prey if they had strength to accomplish the object.
A tide of immigration of the worst characters out of every
State through their means is thus [ ] flowing into
proximity to you which judging from the trouble
you have already had with them will give you
yet greater unless something be done to check it.
The most effectual mode for preventing this gathering
of Mormons in my opinion would be an expose
of their conduct in every community in which they
make their appearance. And as they charge the
public press with falsehoods in relation to their
recent conduct the Statements thus made have done
little good. As they are doing all they can in this
neighborhood. And as I feel it a duty I owe my
fellow citizens to forward, their further progress. I
have thus taken the liberty of requesting a short account
of their Conduct from Your excellency, which will
do more in supporting this than all the newspaper
Statements that could be made. Should you think
it not beneath to you to Send any information in
relation to them, you will have the goodness to address
Dr. A.V.B. Orr.
I remain Sir, Your
Obt
Servant
A. V. B. Orr
To His Excellency
The Governor of
Missouri