Show to the saints it is a source of unlimited gratitude to the saints to know klow I 1 and feel that they are safey and plea pleasantly I 1 located in the in midst of these rich vallies where peace and plenty reign triumphantly and there is nothing i to molet molest their fullest desires to work righteousness I 1 and fulfill the designs of their heavenly father con them from day to day while every breeze that watts antell gence from foreign lands land s and distant parts part of this wide nation declares the he revolutions revolution of dominions and governments I 1 i mes lines seasons and natures works 5 proclaiming I 1 g to tho the wo id that the time I 1 is fast approaching alien the wreck of D nature shall J not remain a monument of what now is ia but a dark I 1 gloomy only blot on the page or of history pointing I 1 to what has been newspapers and travelers alike report suicides murders storms steamboat steam boat explosions inundations shipwrecks fires wars and rumors of wars 21 conten I 1 lions eions strife pollution revenge and calamities of eve every at nature covering ani and convulsing I 1 the ibe earth and I 1 Ks inhabitants tar far far beyond anything that history recounts for ages it not for six thousand years many portions of ofner new england Engla fid have been flooded I 1 carrying off mills dams and houses house the water wafer using 3 to the machinery in lowel 14 fic factories tories suspended opt opi aeration era tion various railroads railroad sitt in N hampshire rendered nearly or quite impassable on the c whole I 1 families drowned several towns fin inundated un dated and in worthington worthing every house one elc apted was swept f il 1 away our latest accounts from travelers suppose from I 1 the closest observations that corid fie be fiade made rowe more I 1 than a thousand I 1 graves had bad been called into existence 11 between the missouri river hild and the south pass 1 I ous to th the e ath of july by the emig emigration emigrate rati oil moving west it ward this season and hat bishop smoot witha a 3 c company y ai saints efti ahia on the south of the I 1 Plat platte tein in the midst of ell cholera olera at our latest dates 1 1 1 some cases caes of cholera had appeared on the coith I 1 bank of the platte but its ravages appease app appeared eave d to cors respond with the amount of emig emigration ratio A which was 1 far the greater reater I 1 on the south bank I 1 1 1 the eidl emigration of the saints f from rom kanesville Kanes I 1 ville co corni in I 1 mence fenced d about the of may and the first week in june our first firof camp I 1 a company irom baom st bouis were near the loup fork and while the saints in these vallies are enjoying the richest blessi blessings of heaven and earth let them not be im mindful of their brethren and sisters and their little onea one who are now passing nassim I 1 ip t through the valley of death on the platte river liver not through the valley I 1 of the shadow of death but through the valley of death itself 4 where men women anid and children have bare been li ett on the ground where diefe th thay oy died fit if travelers tell the ille truth with no other change or covering than a few loose clods thrown over them to hide icide them f from rom the light of d day ay while the tent that shrouded theila was A 9 hurriedly I 1 I 1 forced from its basteni fastenings so that th the e survivors I 1 might 1 go on their way arta and why V tor or fear that death 9 gir d leave the departed and cleave to ta themselves t II 11 and mot as humanity would hope from any want of I 1 r respect el hect t to 0 the departed c C but what has this todo to do with the saints suppose yourselves ives in the situation of these beur r h brethren deihr en r T now traveling M hither amid cholera carcasses scantily t 1 covered with the on the earths surface I 1 a or amid graves halt half lug aug from which chic h the prairie ri he wolf 1 I 1 had bad exhumed alie ahe cholera carcasses emitting cholera stench to be inhaled at auevery every breath or the less dire fit fill throes of living death on wery every hand i iad i and boxi you had E I 1 i friends on earths situated as you now are on your comfortable farma and in your comfortable houses blouses in in as pure pare an a atmosphere as eve ever r waft drafted I 1 e cover over the f everlasting wills hills of adams fallen race would you z not want them to send forth their aspirations to their 1 heavenly father without c ceasing ea 1 sini that that you might pass I 1 the dark valley and arrive in peace in health and I 1 safety would you not implore them to cry day and 11 s I 1 night god he be merciful unto us its and bring us safely to our desired rest in zion then do as you won would f t be done by and cease not by prayers land acts if acts shall be wanting till fill you sec clerf soul cotil of the a 3 h iao ant to be even where you in al are I 1 is not all let your prayers be made marii mant lt it f test est by your aoa for you have helped your I 1 brethren here by your prayers your jour works hive have got 1 I to f feed them or they or you die of thou sands sanda or tens of thousands of the saints are how bow on 1 their way hither who will look to you von alone under ill god for sustenance after they arri arrive ve till they scan can n raise raise grain for them themselves elves and what of all this k c A mere trifle all this to be sure i ia n ibe the cup of hu 0 man revolution but wisdom is justified of her child it ren and remember that a griat great portion of europe is ia lr ir I 1 now short af if news I 1 areto are to be be f If tved lived 5 d shor shortly vib we W 4 to n the T r whole earth is to be deluged with a W I 1 an I 1 ivio ous famine such as never was known before SE fhe ahe 11 M 1 earth or r what are we to understand by th this is what it e is ia to be sure as aa we do everything 11 else I 1 chete are t hun hundreds dreas of emigrants grants passing our midst mi ast dst every day I 1 honorable men we presume who corine come and ket get what what 1 I they chev want for it and go on their way AU all riot right f who are they men of wea wealth ith influence and aid charac N ier ter where they have lived well enough li oft where 1 they were if they I 1 had bad thought so but they wanted more and they bad a perfect righetto right to go and get it IT what next grass begins to be scarcely the way z Q I 1 I 1 fell e i baie ii f i I 1 e aae fl floar 0 ii r th 6 bw 0 follo f following 0 ingi thama thousands h a adds dds had in ill b 8 r f ill their b ok own w 0 to 4 I 1 I 1 alv divided t v ded with their y gl eli eil di d t the h e emigrants t ig I 1 b W who it 0 w would I 1 d it have a Y gone on oil led e et d 11 hern all g ii route t I 1 luoin M 6 the e i influence a e c e oi of i malicious le ile e ibisi 0 oft f t t idi an and d oft published b h S be d I 1 risk their heir U n come e t through h is it ian the it I 1 valley I 1 C to get sol something to in a ab i b at eri I 1 biln 4 ota starve e among th the wolves and before r I 1 el 0 1 ii sis t I 1 j ay you on u are n na 0 t more ore wise Y you and you N noWa it inin 11 in I 1 a and ad rid in looking kin to you fo for or support aupp t ill b aie w 1 I 1 aza t ban n the abb ta e eila half air a starved ta ve afi inhabitants b of p t to k yell no oot through br h Y your ind midst I 1 at at the he pre i it III lo 10 c ayse M ve e ev AW all a this simply q 1 nabe I because csc that li that which nd 1 I farfetched far fetched arid and worth nothing uni I 1 ifoN nJ oin ii t ly what tra traveler eler cares how much flour I 1 s i atohi S neami so s 0 long ions as he be can buy Y it for 3 e I 1 S I 1 nl noone one not a nan man that has y I 1 dij nij I 1 this season would have brought a hi only to in last him here if he V n f flour with I 1 m 9 it here at 3 or 4 e I 1 lowsha own be could haw bought in nd when he had to pay there 8 6 or 7 louia ier r poll 1 lie and ana cal emigrants them ana it news new papera spillers at iu I 1 abat too t in 1 I a country where of f tell ae the frugh and aad noena to train grain and it if they eel eil s coin comparatively para 11 P 31 eat artin rt in ojie can run to another in a of I 1 mi ie a I 1 ja ds no one and the lint 11 ja the he feed browy as the 16 way athe the more flour e fed to feam am th the e more emit emigrants rants will pass sappie 16 I 1 et and if the saints convay tonto conto a vay m to get upp I 1 ln teed feed abe he th thousands and tens of thousands 1 S I 1 kites teams nowen now I 1 en route at what before another ha halves ives afeei the P u have tiled to feed all and found it t 1 ires V ves I 1 and all y 11 ll groceries a cepher ia 17 t abou have topah tor for gram grain in the great ayears years aglia ago we I 1 would gladly have paid a a pound train from the shirts on our hack back but we kit t get att any price and will ivill it be any ally and amends 1 bends have eat what T when yon your I 1 tb emigrants with their t beir t teams eams m it ety ill be left atter after ai i it 3 cener iSI p 0 p pound and ana you anti and I 1 san S 1 I lends ell e ds voi voa Aay pledged a supply shall have pe p what yot are no nearer ahl mhd id d thin than you were five years ago ane i bogir alu could lat be ne bought for 50 per barrel I 1 1 I have in debt the run co t hii ITI y Ks merchants aja an I 1 cant get the money ind and I 1 re rec list ista ray ay fuligni ca at I 1 1 70 75 ats I 1 50 acts ns is 01 fop who 1 10 I j far so good do as you A I 1 1 ac 1 made a bad bargain stick to it f I til ti I 1 t Z your own hint lt change ae not a sh 1 with your cred CTet tors ms and houi dai da fihe he more wisp wise in fatme NY 1 fia ahe I 1 of oe deseret and utah HW they came their into inlo business like other men and aidi aronte aro J olvea have a right to tn do and ion t oil have run in al 14 ator their aoma agreeing agre eins to pay them es r W rio mitter milter what that price was it i you yon 1 11 I 1 or I 1 took thir th ir go goods at their price you is 0 odiay il eor the sim this is right anti anil what ars toral aregi murt he endured as much in the oil i th 64 physical world and therefore pay list laiss aill I 1 keep your covenants anti and not dis I 1 igdon der AS bild lild he p the ne wiser course for he the future nh mhd out rf debt t to the met cleank who have charged rid id re I 1 to 0 sixteen hundred per on cost wei we tv they have sold gold you so far as we are first day I 1 a such stich a store was opened in fri fr it othe present moment on an average raze and III diat t atter after all their good anti and kind credits f ell eg von had all beep governed by the same lea as an the trades union I 1 which originated w wei li J a few ow years vears since rince vou von might have had ith til evou lv ou have bad biad better articles or lew m f I 1 consequently ww had bandi eds of lat ate ai 1 of dollars in your own pockets to 0 o do what but as a tolls this liades unon union did rot igi 1101 c agn nr r pleasure Z b houi faith you left it for others lie lenc fi af after ter it was recommended to you ic ich hundreds of thousands are now receiving ca B k blows bows or is willing to acknowledge the afian which it originated ay 1 norea no reason sion because men have been foolish 0 O I its g ay a r should deny their contract therefore ag yg ls aily your debts a fast as you can though th hi W disadvantage do what you have agreed ai I 1 nat ia B another point of view so far as morality eat g benesty bo nesty uprightness equity idding doing as you ie be done aone unto are concerned what claim in jg chante of utah to the general favors ot of oil W j iafe W this question is worthy of an an cc filoi i d jg alis a people were poorer than they now ale are aed sa god in i veritable shape excepted these mi j I 1 ame for what to sell and get flier merchants merchant like other business men ot of de dea i 1 and who questioned their fight no IV g iv e believe belaev e that all men should be if I f I 1 cc antl anil ant f they are not like the south anil and the north cysts ts arid and slaved slave a and nd we acted upon this it th as we now act at upon if and ever expect all anti inti SH if and we have bought their goods at an fa 1 thousand per cent im above cost willell reckon ckon when lawyers lawver and mathematicians I 1 anything iny lhing ovi is a per annu it il and because tile the di e cause anse they hive have aked of lot ready to enter into the I bialles uni wr r president first pi pio posed y good god if the saints have fulfilled their heir en ell r land a ra paid their debts according to contracts at f then some gentile Gen lile merchants I 1 y th ailed riled officers are pleased to call them A st louis and probably in new york if a I 1 and washington the past winter and I 1 to ariless or less iless of them having clerks here in I 1 afe aa fe I 1 ind do kneir business and make for I 1 vot ten thousand shousan of dollars pv pir annum out of ts lespi sainta yes you saints in utah atall if igei air r easy cushions and watch the news baily ily to see where they could buy tile the of ys camphor refined at 27 els ells and sell inn f a pound of brim brimstone tone at 3 14 1 4 cents I 1 50 I 1 and all other things in proportion ve ad 4 sleep soundly over a hearty laugh rh e returned ret arned officers report and all rot of emigrants emigrant and not aw scope grace lit voice in favor of ti nth not one word I 1 r papers pars to discard tile he falsehoods that were th ie earth against the poor despised saints f ody should think hunk them bliem doing a good i CIA all and cause that hat somebody to lit bi ing ope tore re of goods anti anil hurt their sales but be merchants had bad possessed that noble hon n breasts which they like eric tl in others why did they not come out 13 aien ell and tell the in their own I 1 i and through tile the press the same ebani chani vb impelled the lies that have caused their re lets all theil trouble tio uble that the the cl a 1 I 1 were the best customers they hey ever hadl had I 1 iv ifould pay their debts to io the last farthing ili rid that no mei ineich cliant ant in ol 01 utah b casion to sue his custO custor Daei neis s to get his wit why 1 varl ante tion we leave the merchants in ill our midst I 1 A t izoar our midst to answer the best way IV ay they hey L e al 81 them stand by at the capital of the na I 1 jungton Mung higton ton and aai see the paper of their justly I 1 I 1 whole utah c community dan damned and not daw dare to open the heir IF heads alicita s to tor fear of their popularity because they knew the cormons mormons Mor mons monsy would pay them ther dues whether the Geri general etal government allowed them their just accounts oi 01 not 0 ye saints when you think of such thin things is forget them as soon as you can and pay your debts to gentlemen merchants with whom you have spent your hundreds of thousands and who would sooner see you crushed to the nethermost hell than publish one word of truth ul in your behalf the sooner you pay them the better and attend to 6 your own concerns tor for the f future raise your own wheat and eat it raise your own flax and woo wool spin it and weave it and remember that the lord will take care of those that take care of t themselves hem selve and that home manufacturing is the life of the nation politic and domestic raise and take care of all the w wheat beat and flax fla x you can and soon you may be independent of all men and be covered and fed without regard to f fi I 1 lends or foes but one thing remember you yon have been strangers in a strange land and as you then wanted to be treated so treat those who may chance to fall in your way be not it 0 t forgetful to entertain strangers tor for thereby some rome have entertained angels unawares Rf member that hat st john and the three Nep hites ale aie not dead yet and at the I 1 judgment you would regret to have them tell you they had called on you for lodging or food and you vou denied them but |