The Book of Mormon

The following article was forwarded to President Joseph Smith, by A. G. Gano, Esq., of Cincinnati. It originally appeared in the "New-Yorker," and is from the pen of "Josephine," supposed Gen. Sanford's daughter. We consider it one of the most candid articles that has ever appeared in relation to our people; though there is one error into which the learned and impartial authoress has fallen-it is in comparing the Book of Mormon to the Koran of Mahomet. Mahomet had not the advantage of the Urim and Thummim by which the ancients were constituted seers-the article, however, is candid, and from the pen of a ready writer, and gives the most indubitable evidence that persons of taste, and high literary acquirements, are willing to give us an impartial hearing. Truth, naked truth, is all we ask, and we are ready for trial at the bar of reason.