After mature and candid deliberation I am fully and satisfactorily
convinced that Mr. Sidney Rigdon's claims to the Presidency of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are not founded in
Truth. I have been deceived by his specious pretences, and now
feel to warn every one over whom I have any influence to beware of
him, and his pretended visions and revelations. _The Twelve are
the proper persons to lead the church._[A]