Wentworth letter censored

The following is a direct quotation from the original Wentworth letter. The part in blue is in the lesson manual. The part in red was censored.  

"Through the medium of the Urim and Thummim I translated the record by the gift and power of God.

"In this important and interesting book the history of ancient America is unfolded, from its first settlement by a colony that came from the Tower of Babel at the confusion of languages to the beginning of the fifth century of the Christian era. We are informed by these records that America in ancient times has been inhabited by two distinct races of people. The first were called Jaredites and came directly from the Tower of Babel. The second race came directly from the city of Jerusalem about six hundred years before Christ. They were principally Israelites of the descendants of Joseph. The Jaredites were destroyed about the time that the Israelites came from Jerusalem, who succeeded them in the inheritance of the country. The principal nation of the second race fell in battle towards the close of the fourth century. The remnant are the Indians that now inhabit this country. This book also tells us that our Savior made His appearance upon this continent after His Resurrection;" 

The censored material includes two key changes that Joseph made to correct Orson Pratt's pamphlet.

1.     Orson Pratt wrote “The second race came directly from the city of Jerusalem, about six hundred years before Christ, being Israelites, principally the descendants of Joseph.” Joseph clarified by writing “The second race came directly from the city of Jerusalem, about six hundred years before Christ. They were principally Israelites of the descendants of Joseph.” Joseph’s explanation accommodates non-Israelites among the group, where Pratt’s version said they were all Israelites.

2.     Orson Pratt wrote “The remaining remnant, having dwindled into an uncivilized state, still continue to inhabit the land, although divided into a “multitude of nations,” and are called by Europeans the “American Indians.” He then spent several pages claiming that Lehi landed in South America, that “The persecuted nation emigrated towards the northern parts of South America, leaving the wicked nation in possession of the middle and southern parts of the same,” and that, “The second colony, which left Jerusalem eleven years after the remnant of Joseph left that city, [i.e., the Mulekites] landed in North America, and emigrated from thence, to the northern parts of South America; and about four hundred years after, they were discovered by the Nephites, as we stated in the foregoing.” 

Joseph replaced Orson Pratt’s hemispheric explanation with the simple declaration that “The remnant are the Indians that now inhabit this country.” Because Joseph wrote the letter in Nauvoo, Illinois, and sent it to Mr. Wentworth in Chicago, Illinois, the term “this country” naturally meant the country in which both sender and recipient lived. This is consistent with the revelations, as note 12 in the Joseph Smith Papers observed.

The easy remedy for this problem would be to undo the censorship and publish Joseph's account "entire, ungarnished, and without misrepresentation." While the printed manual cannot be replaced and will likely never be reprinted, the online version can easily be fixed.