FS recites conventional thought re: premortal justification of restriction.
T.B.H. Stenhouse, An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880), 227
The spirits who stood neutral during the fight subsequently took upon them forms of flesh, entering into the children of Ham, and were known as negroes. Therefore it is, that although the American Indians and all other races are eligible for the Mormon priesthood, the negro alone can never attain to that high dignity.