Nephites: Very White and Highly Intelligent
The Juvenile Instructor, No 11, Vol. 1, p. 43 “The Nephites, on the contrary, were a very industrious, peaceable people…They were also a very white and beautiful and highly intellectual and cultivated people…After this there were none but Lamanites left, and the present American Indians are their descendants.” – Salt Lake City, June 1, 1866