Thoughts on the Book of Mormon

Notwithstanding that a determined effort was made after he removed from the State of New York, by hunting up evidence at Palmyra and Manchester, to prove the Book of Mormon to be a mere human production, and although various charges were brought against him, yet so well known was it that he was an unlearned youth, that the idea of charging him with an education did not occur to his active opposers. They made charges against him, but no person either in Palmyra or Manchester accused him of ever buying a book or entering a library.

C. W. Wandell, “Credibility of the Book of Mormon” Latter-day Saints Millennial Star (May 16, 1857): 311.