[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
180 years ago today - Jul 23, 1831
[General] W.W. Phelps writes a description of Missouri: "The inhabitants are emigrants from Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and the Carolinas, etc., with customs, manners, modes of living and a climate entirely different from the northerners, and they hate yankees worse than snakes, because they have cheated them or speculated on their credulity, with so many Connecticut wooden clocks, and New England notions. The people are proverbially idle or lazy, and mostly ignorant; reckoning nobody equal to themselves in many respects, and as it is a slave holding state, Japheth will make Canaan serve him, while he dwells in the tents of Shem"
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What is the original source reference for this Phelps quote?
ReplyDeleteNot sure of the original source, but it was reprinted in the Ontario Phoenix, Vol. IV, Wednesday, September 7, 1831: Extract of a Letter from the late Editor of this paper, dated, STATE OF MISSOURI, INDEPENDENCE, JACKSON CO. July 23, 1831.
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