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Show t -, I) Jt II ' ' ' ' " " " """' r Kf; I LeauJerS From Brighcnn young's Diary. HUH If. m 81 II J B 'Posthumous XOorK Just TtscoVered Ejctracts Shot&t K s ? Hi I 1 1 Bttter Feeling To&vard 7ntted States. mW 1 itHll .HI fll II I B ' !' Tne PrPlietlc voice of Brigham Young has HI ' l ' I como back to us, wafted from the parched and Hi Jj i dried leaves of an old diary written by the great Hi ! '4 B Mormon leader in the turbulent days of 1857. Bi 1' W B 8 wr't:en n tllG rather uncouth but bold H i 1H aim stronS chirography of the president and W I ' ' I B there can be no question of the authenticity of the H' " 1 B posthumous work of the pioneer, 'tracts of Bl' I which are herewith printed for the first time. B ! ' ' ft 8 TIl diary 8 sulphurous with the dominating K ' " IB personality of the great leader, thunders with ! I ' !' "I? IB stormy epithet and swings the sclmiter with hitler B' ' l I B denunciation against the power which sent troops B '' tI B to rule ovcr tne dGStInIes of tne Mormon colony. H j I jjif B Tno dIary uears tn0 tItle in lnlc "Minutes of Hi l lii B the FIrst Presi(lent's Office," and some of the B HH B early pages are written apparently from dictation B ' IB B ky a secretary The remainder is in the full-blown B Hii B hand of the master of Mormons, and the whole B 1! rat 8- narration covers only about forty closely written H 1 fflK pages. H . jm The diary begins on the 27th of May, 1857, and H '3TI closes on the 21st of September of the same year. B I 1H fl Tue first oxtract given below is in the penman- m ' ! w1! B snlp of tne secretary uut the remainder is taken m ' ' ' 8 fronx Parts of tuo 1Ittle volume written by the B wP 8 president himself. B J 9 |