Show we aie permitted to publish the following letter from captain geo F co M ad cavalry Car alry C V now with his company on an expedition to foi t mojave his fi lends here will bo be glad to know that ho he and his command are in good health and sp lifts and will n ill fully agree with him in iland and re echo the deep and indignant protest which lie he utters titters against the culpable neglect which has bag so 80 long allowed the well known ass assassins asins and their better known instigators in the mountain meadow mcadow massacre to brave the light of day until they have apparently almost forgotten for gotton the fact that a day of though slowly will yet assuredly come S UT LATIN LAKE AND fort FOOT MOJAVE IWATE W V R ear expedition tio camp no 10 mountain meadow U T 1 MA ila 1864 captain it may be interesting to the gen cial commanding the district of utah to know that on yesterday yeste iday and today to day I 1 caused a monument to be erected beside the grave con containing tain in the bones of the victims of the mountain me meadow adow massacre of september 1857 upon my iny arrival here on yesterday I 1 found the in monument onti ment which was erected several years ago by an army officer torn do down wn the cross taken away and the stones forming the monument scattered around tb the e S springs n gs near the remains of this monument is the grave gai giving ing evidence of much decay both grave and monument having been defaced by impious hands I 1 immediately determined to repair the grave grato and rebuild the monument yesterday afternoon I 1 had erected a substantial monument of stone of the following size and dimensions viz twelve feet rqn treat ire at base arid and four feet high compactly tilled failed in with loose stone and eaith from the centie of this square rises a pyramidal p column seven feet high of stone compactly laid we fill planted anted in the centre of it a substantial cedar pole on which is fastened a small cross ma manufactured red from one of our packing boxes this cross reaches thice feet above the apex of the pyramid p yra making the height of monument fourteen feet on the side of the cro cross cros s facing to the east so BO that the rising sunlight of god may each day dav cast its rays of beauty upon it aru these words Verge vengeance ance ri is mine I 1 will reply repay saith the lord 11 below these fl and on the arm ariu of the cross are theo thee the e mountain meadow rn digs acre september 1957 on the opposite side at aie 0 theae words word i Fr ctol by and men of Com iriny if it 21 call calf lui iaia ciu alry MI and 1864 the monument rudely but substantially erected appeals well bioni the road and will stand for yeats if no impious ivind hind destiny it the grave has also been neatly repaired filling it with earth and it on the sui siti tace face colelia co coi lelin ching the whole w with 1 th a layer of stones myself elf coniado and every soldier of my command consider that the ra fatigues and hards hardships bips of a twelve hundred mile march to mojave and back to camp douglas ale aie cancelled in it the of erecting at this place beside the remains of the 11 dered innocent who were 4 betrayed a and massacred in cold blood by white fiends and the their ir indian allies a monti monument nent at once expressive of our bori honor or at the act our respect for the memory odthe of the murdered dead and our sympathy for their fate I 1 cannot lafrain at this time from entering my protest as a soldier anti and as an american at the delay of a powerful government in at least attempting to bra bring n ch the leaders of this infamous among crime to justice just t co and holding them up tit for the execration of the entire christian world the mountain meadows are 12 1 2 miles from camp douglas doublas very leapt your servant GEO F PRICE capt ad cal caa C av expedit expedition IA to captain M G libis A A G district of utah salt lale lake city U T |