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Source(s) of the criticism

Critical sources

A Letter to Those Who Have Attended Mormonite Preaching (London: J. B. Bateman, 1840), 1–4. off-site A Little Talk, Between John Robinson and his Master about Mormonism, Shewing its Origin, Absurdity, and Impiety (Bedford: W. White, 1840), 1–8. off-site A, “‘When ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.’” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 3d series, no. 1 (1 May 1830): 6. off-site A.H.M., “Ancient and Modern Mormonism,” Western Examiner (St. Louis, Missouri) 2, no. 46 (10 December 1835): 366-67. off-site C. C. Blatchley, “Caution Against the Golden Bible,” New-York Telescope 6, no. 38 (20 February 1830): 150. off-site “Mormonism,” Boston Recorder (Boston, Massachusetts) 17, no. 41 (10 October 1832). Reprinted from Lockport Balance (New York), circa September 1832. off-site J. Newton Brown, “Mormonites,” Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (Boston: Shattuck & Company, 1835), 844. Reprinted from Cross and Baptist Journal, Fall 1834. off-site Alexander Campbell, “The Mormon Bible,” Millennial Harbinger 3, no. 6 (June 1839): 267–68. off-site Thomas Campbell, “The Mormon Challenge,” Painesville Telegraph (Painesville, Ohio) 2, no. 35 (15 February 1831): 2. off-site Alexander Campbell, “Signs of the Times,” Millennial Harbinger 5, no. 4 (April 1834): 148, note. off-site Henry Caswall, America, and the American Church (London: J.G. & F. Rivington, 1839), 322–23. off-site Cincinnati Advertiser and Ohio Phoenix (2 June 1830). Reprinted from Wayne County Inquirer, Pennsylvania, circa May 1830. off-site John A. Clark, “Gleanings by the Way No. X,” Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (10 October 1840): 114-15. off-site “The Golden Bible,” The Cleveland Herald (Ohio) (25 November 1830): 3. off-site “Mormonism,” Supplement to the Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Connecticut) 5, no. 22 (15 December 1838): 175–76. off-site Benjamin Dobson to the editor, June 16, 1839, “The Mormons,” Peoria Register and North-Western Gazetteer (Peoria, Illinois) 3, no. 13 (27 July 1839). off-site James H. Eells to Joshua Leavitt, 1 April 1836, New York Evangelist (New York) 7, no. 15 (9 April 1836): 59. off-site Ephraim Ensley to Brother Badger, 1835, Reading, New York Christian Palladium (Union Mills, New York) 4, no. 18 (15 January 1836): {{{pages}}}. off-site “Imposition and Blasphemy!!—Moneydiggers, Etc.” The Gem (Rochester, New York) (15 May 1830): 15. off-site Gimel, “Book of Mormon,” The Christian Watchman (Boston) 12, no. 40 (7 October 1831). off-site D. Griffiths, Jun., Two Years’ Residence in the New Settlements of Ohio, North America: With Directions to Emigrants (London: Westley and Davis, 1835), 132. off-site H., Letter to the Editor, Observer and Telegraph (Hudson, Ohio) (30 December 1830). off-site Samuel Haining, Mormonism Weighed in the Balances of the Sanctuary, and Found Wanting: The Substance of Four Lectures (Douglas: Robert Fargher, 1840), 22-23, 41-42. off-site Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), 18, 35. (Affidavits examined) David Marks, The Life of David Marks (Limerick, ME: Printed at the Office of the Morning Star, 1831), 340-342. off-site Full title David Marks, [Untitled Remarks on Mormonism], Morning Star (Limerick, Maine) 7, no. 45 (7 March 1833): 177. James M’Chesney, Supplement to an Antidote to Mormonism, &c. (Brooklyn, 1839), 1–4. off-site “Mormonism,” New York Weekly Messenger and Young Men’s Advocate (29 April 1835). Reprinted from The Pioneer (Rock Springs, Illinois), March 1835. off-site “We have received the following letter,” Painesville Telegraph (Painesville, Ohio) (22 March 1831), ??. off-site “The Book of Mormon,” Painesville Telegraph (Ohio) (30 November 1830). Plain Truth, “Mr Editor,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 2, no. 10 (6 January 1831): 77. off-site Josiah Priest, American Antiquities (Albany: Hoffman and White, 1833), ??. off-site “The Marion Monk,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 3d series, no. 16 (13 September 1830): 124-125. off-site “A hungry lean-faced villain,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 3d series, no. 7 (30 June 1830): 53-54. off-site “Blasphemy–‘Book of Mormon,’ alias The Golden Bible,” Rochester Daily Advertiser (New York) (2 April 1830). off-site “Golden Bible,” Rochester Advertiser and Daily Telegraph (New York) (31 August 1829). Reprinted from Palmyra Freeman, 11 August 1829. off-site "The subject was almost invariably treated as it should have been—with contempt." “Book of Mormon,” Rochester Republican (New York) (28 December 1830). off-site S. Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate (Utica, New York) new series 2, no. 6 (5 February 1831): 47. off-site H. Stevenson, A Lecture on Mormonism (Newcastle: J. Blackwell and Co., 1839), 3-32. off-site John Storrs, “Mormonism,” Boston Recorder (Boston, Massachusetts) 24 (19 April 1839). off-site La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” Zion’s Watchman (New York) 3, no. 2 (13 January 1838): 6. off-site “The Mormon Mystery Developed,” Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, New York) (20 December 1833). off-site The Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, New York) (26 June 1829). off-site [the earliest mention of this concept which FAIR has identified] "Most people entertain an idea that the whole matter is the result of a gross imposition and a grosser superstition. Western Traveller, “Mormonism,” Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 7, no. 30 (22 March 1833): 1. off-site Alphonoso Wetmore, Gazetteer of the State of Missouri (St. Louis: C. Keemle, 1837), 93-96. off-site “The Mormons,” Religious Herald (Richmond, Virginia) (9 April 1840). off-site Critical works that do not adopt this posture “The Book of Mormon and the Mormonites,” Athenaeum, Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art 42 (July 1841): 370–74. off-site [Letter on Mormonism, 26 July 1841,] Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 15, no. 52 (11 August 1841). off-site “Mormonism,” Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 16, no. 6 (22 September 1841). off-site Doctrine of the Mormonites (London: J. Wertheimer & Company, 1842.), 1-4. off-site “The Book of Mormon,” The New-Yorker (New York) (12 December 1840): ??. off-site “Gold Bible, No. 3,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 2, no. 12 (1 February 1831): xxx. off-site Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary (London: Thomas Tegg, 1841), 537–38.; citing Cross and Baptist Journal, 1834. off-site Full title J.A.H., “Origin of Mormonism,” Wayne County Whig (Lyons) 3, no. 51 (14 September 1842). off-site James H. Hunt, Mormonism: Embracing the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Sect (St. Louis: Ustick and Davies, 1844), 13-14, 86. off-site E. G. Lee, The Mormons, or Knavery Exposed (Frankford, Philadelphia: Webber & Fenimore, 1841), 2-3. off-site Full title One Who Hates Imposture, Mormonism Dissected, or, Knavery “On Two Sticks,” Exposed (Bethania, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Reuben Chambers, 1841), 2. off-site Full title Walter Scott, “Mormon Bible–No. I,” The Evangelist (Carthage, Ohio) 9, no. 1 (1 January 1841): 17–21. off-site G.C. Stewart, “The Book of Mormon,” The Perfectionist (Putney, Vermont) 3, no. 7 (15 May 1843): 28. off-site

Past responses

Anon., "Difference Between the Baptists & Latter-Day Saints. From the North Staffordshire Mercury," Millennial Star 1 no. 12 (April 1841), 296–99. off-site