Show All1 Alii LV1ALlY hormone and the Government Authorities 1a fcallovo there are no where In the Union a snore toyal people thap the Latterday Saints They know no other country except this They expect to live and die on this soil Te he M peaco with tho government and In I harmony with their fellowcitizens who are not of her faith and to share In tho confidence of the government and people our people have voluntarily put aside somethlnu which all their lives they have believed to be a sacred principle princi-ple C shepherds ol a patient and sneering people we ask amnesty for them and fledje oItr faith an d honor for their future VTiLFORD VQODRUTF H J GRANT GEORGE Q CANNON Jons HENRY Sxtrrs JoswnP SMITH JOHN W TAYLOR LORENZO SNOW M W MERRILL MOSES THATCTIER ANTHONH LUND FRANCIS M LYMAN ABRAHAM H CANNON rRA > Kijji D RICHARDS SALT LAKE Deoember IS 1891 To the President We have the honor to forward herewith ape tttlon signed by tho president and most Influen Ual members of the Mormon church We have fiO doubt of iJ6 sincerity and no doubt that it Is lintended in absolute goodfaith The signers in iclude some who were most determined in adhering adher-ing to their religious faith while polygamy either mandatory 6r permissive was one of its tenets and they are men who would not lightly pltigt their faith and hopor to the government lor subscribe to such a docu ment without having Sully resolved to make the r irords good la lel tter and spirit Signed by A L TaouAs governor CHABLES IB ZANE chief justice Commissioners GOD XBEY SAUNDERS and ROBERTSON and Judges MINER BLACKBURN and ANDERSON SALT LAKE Decembers 1891 |