New-York tribune., 1886-01-31
TILE SPAULDING ROMANCE.
HOW 1T CANE INTO THE POSSESSION OF L. l. RICE
NOW OF HONOLULU.

HOW CAME INTO lhE fO'ofs'oi''N VI T." ." -''~'-'
NOW OF HONOLULU.
Totbe EdftOr Of The Trt6une.
SIR: a special dispatch iii your paper from
Chicago SAWS that the manuscript written Oy the Rev
Solomon spauldnc VINO was born in Ashford Conn., III
176 graduated Dartmouth in l7s5, ana WHO III leo9
moved to Conneant, Ashtabua County, Oho hau oeeh
found by l. L. Rice of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands for
merry OF Ohio In ls40 Mr. Rice was the Edltor oI
The PainesrUe Tecgraph Whig paper formerly owne"
nv Z D Howe the author Of :hc book " Mornohsm IN
v.el printed in s35 by him. In letter 10 me- ua'eu
Honolulu Dec. t. 1885, Mr.. Koo says Ait7i INC
daa,h Of my wife 1877 at Obcrn came out mere 10
10 ,r,,b nv daughter Mary (Nrs. Dr. whitney, nave
W ,ort home here-aIn in good health for a man now
,orlr ciohty.fve." This is the Mr. Rice from whom
,be news comes 10 you of the manuscript OF spaudlhg
In the winter of 1s33-'34, sclf-coustituted commit
toe consisting of Judge Allen. Dr. card Samufi
WILSON, Judge Lapham. W. Corning ana ny
s1I met al Mr. Corning's house, in Mentor,
now known as the Garfield farm, to investigate Nor
,oni.tn and the origin OF the Mormon Bible Dr. d. l..
Hurbut whose is mentioned In the aitcIe III your
paper this morning, employed TO look up 'eslohy'
He was present with the committee ana had SHauun~
original manuscript with him We compared H. cu"P'eI
nv cbapter with the Mormon Bible. Ii WAS written IN
the same STYLE many of the names were The same ana
We came conclusion from al! the testimony oeoIe
Ms that the Rev. Sidney kgdon, the eloquent mormon
nrearHer made the Mormon Bible from this manuscript
or tins the committee hal no DOUBT Whatever, ,,,
.honr ms time Dr Hurlbut had some trouble with
the Norm0us al Kir land where they had built tempe
and he had the prophet, Joseph Smith, arrested on
warrant OF a Justice OF the peace Tor assault ana all}
He mad an examination before Two justices III inc Ou
M,thOdist Church PanesVie. II lasted thTeo uas =
Judge BeniaIuin Bissell was the attorney iol
SwIfh ana | was tho attorney lOf Di
IInrlbut The examination produced much lntere.t.
Coydery HYDE and Pratt Mormon leaders, We're thcro
win :" Ioe smith. said TO Nj. B!ssell, et US Gtt
from "The Prophet" his history OF the ndlhg OF tne
aeolden plates" Mr.. Il. consented ana IOr TWO Gays
W. had The Prophet, Joe" smith. on the "lthGss
stand He swore that s under oath, that he 0nnd INC
golden plates buried in the eIrth III ] nen IA IA m @
N Y and wnen he found them ne was kicked by an uI m
seen foot out the hole in when thcy were Pdoeu' "
present knew that IL Mormon lie. , ,,,,o
RigdOu was a natural orator. and hat inuch hal!Ko %
genius He got the manuscript III flttsenTg ~ w.! ho
pcutng office of Mr. Robert Patterson the iaher Oh lc
present Mr. Robert Patterson, who has pun!3heu an h M
feresuc history OF MOrmOrisn, showing without %
that the Rev. sidney Rigdon was the compiler VI 'no
Book OF Mormon. ,, -. cthsorhurch
OHIO In a letter TO Mr.. Patterson, OF llt'spuIS' nv
saws: ~ gave tie manuscript Win ,ar,onn an my
other documents connected with MofmUh-
ism TO Mr. Howe" Mr. Rice was the
successor OF Mr. Howe in The IecGTdph ana tllS uc +
counts for MS pos OF the "manuscrpt iouhu "
this late day In an island In the Pacihc ocean. u
L. L. Rice was we'll known on the western IseselNo,
Ohio as one of the earliest and a6est OF the atSnFeIy
Whigs He has lived TO the incuIhDc llyuelIGe
slavery abolished In the land of his BIRTH ana 10 ons
OF this late date to light the spaulding nanuocTipt
Yours truly, JAMES A. Ai''''
BTOOkilfn, Jan. 20, 1885,