A Proclamation to the Government Officials of the United States of America and to the Government Officials of Canada

Inasmuch as government officials have joined with those who were once members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who are now apostate and determined to destroy the Church; and inasmuch as these government officials are now bringing prosecutions upon members of the said Church, and have fought to use Church records to persecute and prosecute members of said Church; and inasmuch as our religious freedoms are not upheld by these government officials, even to incarcerate them for performing their religious duties and living the revealed laws of their religion as given through the Prophet Joseph Smith ... - p. 1.