<​May 18​>phecy in the name of the Lord God of Israel that unless the redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the State of , and punish the crimes committed by her officers, that in a few years the Government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a Postsherd left, for their wickedness in permitting the murder of men, women, and children, and the wholesale plunder and extermination of thousands of her citizens to go unpunished; thereby perpetrating a foul and corroding blot upon the fair fame of this great Republic, the very thought of which would have caused the high minded and patriotic framers of the Constitution of the to hide their faces with shame. you will aspire to the Presidency of the , and if ever you turn your hand against me or the you will feel the weight of the hand of the Almighty upon you; and you will live to see and know that I have testified the truth to you, for the conversation of this day will stick to you through life.