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Show anoth:r utter from "a MCRMQM." Ihe Govn-nor'n Letter to General De Trobriand. THE PROVO RAID AND THE SALT LAKE Rl.SC. ETldeneea of Ibe GOTernor'e Repent. net W anted. Salt Lake City, Sept. 29, 1870. To the EditoTi of the Herald: DEAE Snis.Having received another proclamation pro-clamation or communication from his Excellency I, J. WILSON SHAFFER, SHAF-FER, it becomes necessary that I, as a good citizen, should again respond. Attention the Nauvoo Legion! A'tention Gen. Be Trobriand ! ! pr0cla3iati0n iii. letter iii. Executive Depap.tment, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, September 27, 1870. General: Several days have now elapsed since the outrages perpetrated by a portion of your soldiers at Provo, and as far as I can learn no action has been taken on the pare of the military to bring them to punishment, nor has there been any official report made public by the officer in command, stating stat-ing all the facts. I have w iited thus long in the earnest earn-est hope that yuu would have taken such action in the premises as would convince the citizens that the soldiery was staiioned at Provo to protect and not destroy. Hearing nothing like an explanation iruiu the commanding officer offi-cer there, and feeling that the outrage is one that should be followed by swift and certain punishment, I now, as Governor of the Territory, sworn to protect all the citizens, ask of you to deliver up to the civil authorities every individual, private or non-commissioned officer, engaged in the outrage, that I may sec that they are properly tried, and if convicted, puuished. I insist on this for the reason that much feel-in. feel-in. c-ri? ;.T3 rhi community against . l-'vicml onittn? and soldiers, grow-m grow-m mt tin.: transaction, and that t-h'jff 't'.i-ii :d to all the Federal ..' , : I the Territory I am ev.-r.. i.. -c..; ' the laws, which, if i it: ' : i 'lse to do, and in so .i.:i.- 1 i!iif li.'.ve as high a regard for the properly and persons of Mormons as of any other class or denomination. In short : 1 know no distinction and shall know none as between citizens of this Territory. All are entitled equally alike to whatever aid, assistance or protection pro-tection 1 can give them. In this case the perpetrators of the outrages are men employed by the Government, and paid for their services to be the special guardians of the rights and liberties of those among whom they are stationed, coming here at the expense ex-pense of thj Government to aid and assist the civil auth rities in securing to all men their rights, in pla:e of which they have taken it upon themselves to execute all manner of violence and mob lw to satisfy their own individual and persoual grievances. If the U. S. soldiery cannot fulfil the high object they were sent here for, then far better, for the sake of the credit of the nation and the American armies, we be let alone to ourselves, llispuetfully, Vour obedient servant, (Signed) J. W. Shaffer. Governor U. T. To Gen. P. R. De Trobriand. Camp Douglas, U. T. Know ye that 1, J. V. Shaffer no, no, this is a mistake; I, J. W. SHAFFER, SHAF-FER, GOVERNOR OF UTAH TERRITORY, is left out; his most exalted highness is toning down, and we have a commencement with "General." "Gen-eral." Now, this looks ail very nice, and reads very nicely, very patriotic, gentlemanly, gen-tlemanly, just and republican, and if we had not seen those other two fulmi-nations, fulmi-nations, it would have passed off filtrate. filt-rate. As it is, 1 am afraid there is something under that "white heap." The "ring" have come to the rescue and what his most serene highness has lacked they have made up. It is a very pretty plot, but I am afraid the denouement will not be so rich. The covernor linds himself in a bad fix. His forces in Provo have behaved badly ; they have unwittingly i'xpo.-ed his hand, and the plotters of the "ring" here, and he and they would like to get out of it, and hence they have come to the rescue, and f amed this very nice letter to General De Trobriand. Trobri-and. Now, it has been known very well that this honorable ehciue have been wanting to get up a fu.-s here and produce pro-duce a collision, that there wight be a good pretext for employing the nuli-tarv, nuli-tarv, and in.-titutins another grand crusade agaui.-t the Mormon". It would have been so p .pular. and have made su. ha spieu.ii -I o;eonu:uy tor merchants aial con, raeter.- ; and the breaking m and .it:erin.' :r.J a!..'.ty-latilitf a!..'.ty-latilitf the Mormon- .nt:di U- !';:';' ' such riic:' pu-aiii--- io" tin- " w!'- riu." II u- s, a.d fart.-, and mi ' and cities, a'.d tomn. and v;! a..s. an . "the min, - ..f O 'io ." a-:i t:io w.c, a, Uv.im d l - I' to tl.cu c;.r... r.xr a visions, with government patronage, offices, honors, emoluments, religious and social influence, and a name aod a fame for pesterity. The prospect was magnificent. Here wa3 a whole Territory Terri-tory to be spoiled, and the government was expected to furnish two or three hundred millions to help do it. Was there ever so magnificent a plan ! No wonder they became intoxicated and acted the fooL No wonder the courts and judges and marshals and governor, and all the "ring" tried to move heaven and earth for its accomplishment. accom-plishment. No wonder that courts were manipulated, juries packed and proclamations issued ! This was all a part ot the grand programme. Some overt act was wanted ; some causxs belli; some pretext to open the grand campaign. They would have liked a Mormon riot, a resistance to authority, some officer killed, some pretext. Any of them were willing that some other person should be killed for the cause, but none of them liked to be the victim. vic-tim. The would beg and button-hole and log-rod for it ; they would offer insults, pack juries and issue proclamations procla-mations for it ; but. none of them were willing to become the desired victim for it. They wanted a Fort Sumpter, a John Brown, a Hohenzollern anything, any-thing, but "John Brown's soul is marching along; Glory, Hallelujah ! " "This is the House that Jack built : And these are the rats that (would) Eat the corn, that lay in the house That Jack built! " Things were progressing nicely until this uufortunate fiasco at Provo. '1 here was the marshal, the court, the jury, the governor, the proclamations ; everything working splendidly, including includ-ing the new Camp Rawlins. Now, this latter was a grand move in the great drama. It was not enough that Salt Lake City should be placed under military surveillance, but a cordon of military stations v.as to be placed, embracing em-bracing all the prominent cities in the Territory. Ogderi, Provo and other places being included in the programme. In the first place, the "ring" would manifest in such unmistakable terms their animus as to provoke difficulty, and in the second place they were prepared pre-pared on any emergency to provoke a quarrel ; and then they were within shooting distance, with the troops, and ammunition, and supplies, and guns, and cannon, and mitiailleurs, to open the grand campaign. They needed Strasburg, Metz, 'foul and Verdun as military fortresses, to open on the enemy en-emy at any convenient time." How far the officers in Camp Rawlins were concerned con-cerned in this military raid, I am not prepared to say ; but that some of them were implicated is evident from the testimony adduced, and that it was premeditated and planned is also plain; as also that the patties engaged in it were very incompetent. Enough, however, is developed, to show that they were governed by the same animus ani-mus as the "ring" in Salt Lake City ; that they had had a certain preparatory prepara-tory instruction and drill ; that thev considered they had "good backing," and that they were acting according to the card ; that burning and mobbing and destruction were intended ; but they lacked more drilling, and consequently conse-quently went off half cocked and put the governor's and officers' feet in it, including in-cluding the "ring." Now, what is to be done? for it has gone out t the world that it is the employes of governmentthe gov-ernmentthe "whisky ring" and its instruments that are raiders, marauders, maraud-ers, filibusters, housebreakers, plun-derers plun-derers aud destroyers, and not the poor, degraded, turbulent, fanatical "Mormons." The "ring" meet in solcnin conclave and contrive what to do. After plot ting and concocting, it is decided that the governor issue another proclamation, proclama-tion, or address a note to General Ie Trobriand, through the papers. Who believes the governor wrote or contrived con-trived that? It needed somebody more acute than his mot serene highness. high-ness. There is more plot in that document doc-ument than he is capable of developing Only think. I, J. W. SHAFFER. Goveunor OF Utah Tuuutuky and Commnnder-in-Chi'-f, CvC, Ac., who a few days ago appointed t. enner Commander-in-Chief of the Mi ltia id' Utah without consulting the people, and commanded everybody to "re.-pect i him;" who in his fu'nnnations ordered the people not to have their tibial annual an-nual drill, and coinmandid them to give up their arms, &c, &e. wri'i'i-sueh wri'i'i-sueh a d.icument a the above. 1 le ear-marks are not the same. '1 he one is builv and bluster, .loumatie and imperial": im-perial": the other mild, apparently j;M and equitable, h. norable and repu It; can. The one i 1. J. WILMN SH FFKR, COMMANDER - IN -CHIEF, the other, the community, commu-nity, the citiz-ti-. the p"op:e. 1 k'j France we have laid a-i !e the .mpenal purple and adopt, d the p a.n rv uM-ean uM-ean it iv-r'im.' -tv. .-! r lay wo. :'"" P laved "Ge-ler s cap" .-a .-. ..." ortv pole ; t,-, a.- m- ba.e d - i i -v''1 put u:i tl.o : l cap ..: i.ii-t? ar.i t . a iou I y . t'jus-.e an I ,.y.I r ' no : ih:.- i "ris,; ' B it vh t the - i: :" ' ' ' v' r- d'--;::, to:!-:,. C, :r . V 7 . co,.-.-o.cr of .he i: - r-i;u-.. I' .- a ! : -'! " '" orao e a . : . - . ill' Mi: or ' T ' ' ": .'- -1 ah-l 11 - T a o - h . ' B ,-;..! , . : Li J ih.J- ' sentiments and they, without the general's gen-eral's action or knowledge, hare ptrre-trated ptrre-trated these outrages. But the governor says "much feeling exists in this community against the Federal officers and soldiers, gracing oi i of this transaction, and that feelics is extended ex-tended to all the Federal officers." This is simply a mistake : there was nearly as much feeling before as since this transaction, and that feeling grew out of the high-handed measures of the c:vil officers ; the ignoring Territorial officers and law : and the flagrant conspiracy con-spiracy against the liberties of the people. peo-ple. The other was the culminating point and was simply a faux pas. But now for the plot. General De Trobriand is commander here, and not in the "ring." Now, if the odium of this transaction could be thrown upon him, and we could get him dismissed as we did Judge Wilson, the "ring" at Washington might furnish fur-nish us another general who would be less scrupulous, more pliant and better in accord with the "ring" here, and thus we should get rid of an honorable man who, being such, does not suit us, and get in his stead a tool more to our purpose ; one who would help us run Provo a we would like to run Salt Lake. The other object is obvious. The people of the United States are not all imperialists; and if the governor could come forth as the champion of the liberties of the people, it would have a fiue effect abroad, and would perhaps gull some one who might bi rather "green" in Utah; at the same time it would afford such a pretty doc-cument doc-cument for "our correspondent." Thus these conspirators and tricksters and political gamblers would act as only such men can. After lying and defaming defam-ing and plotting against the liberties of the people, and being exposed, they would like to cast the odintn of their infamous acts on an innocent man, and while they immolate their victim retreat under cover of his fire. Excuse me for exposing the tricks of the "ring," but such meanness is too infamous infa-mous ! And, then, it is hardly fair, after instilling among your subordinates the principles of disorder, riot and filibustering, fili-bustering, to pimi.-h them so severely for a little inattention to orders and breaking out before you and the courts were ready. I would recommend them to mercy. In all honor and justice, if anybody be punished, let it be the ringleaders. Besides, if you punish them so severely for this, they may not be, so pliant another time. But in regard to the document, if your Fxcellcncy is really sincere and have got converted, you must remember remem-ber you arc on your geod behavior.and we shall expect to see the fruits of repentance. Now, it is simply ri diculous to tell us that something mint be done, "to convince the citizens that the soldiery were stationed at Provo to protect and not destroy." This is so much eiaii-trap and bosh, governor; "deeds speak louder than words." If you are really repentant end reformed we are glad of it, but we want some more convincing proof. The above is too shallow. When the Indians were making raids in Provo, Spanish Fork, Sanpete and on the Sevier river, the military kept themselves out of harm's way; they knew little and cared less about the safety of the people. But when ad is peaceable and quiet, and no hostile Indians within hundreds of miles of those settlements, the governor overwhelms us with the information that he"would convince the citizens that the soldiers were stationed at Provo to protect and not destroy." We have expended upwards of a million dollars in Indian expeditions, a id furnished our own guns, ammunition, forage, horses and supplies, while our "pio-toctors" "pio-toctors" v -i""inj themselves at Camp Do ; ''. ou to our needing ' - V u honor to whom hi - 1 I ieve Gen. Connoric ' a ,ol .d anything in the I ' i . fcr to his Bear Rii fcp ; a question or two v i - ' . not a very enviable ' 1-::: r .rd to it. Didn't t ot a in attaek on about . ... ' 1 children, and kill : i ti a'o I m ii re ? And de i i in' his men throuL-l 1 1 r ' the thermometer thermo-meter ' - ' largo j,.,r- lo-i i. .. i IroZ'-n and kihed" Now t:u'y and sincerely sin-cerely 1 (ipoetv.u to ti. - I r:"'',, 1 '' d.ieui '"in a!! v.l- en,,ii: . ,;i,i:i!t 1 y ir n f s r. ; 1 ,T l.v;r.j COM T' "'.til tie- '!, I.,, -' I -o ,.-,:, f)M, i o ca.'" i ! ;..r uau !'. - - v,.r - it i- la.' !!: ' - r- -, ) 4 . I .. i -:. .1 i . J ' reTxovi-g of our Territorial o5cer$ a:;d ptitf.ng in Ee-jl-srs of the "rice" in their place ? What about eoquettir.j to this mL-rable "whisky rinc." who. deant cf law, statutory and municipal., are serkirg to override over-ride all legl.'.mate authoritv and ran Salt Lake City as their compeers com-peers wou'.a run Prove? What about the report that the Marshal visited mining carcps and every slum and hole to hunt for grand jurymen, Ac, im-paDneluns im-paDneluns a jury not only in the worst of taste, but against every principle of justice and equity. Is it not notorious that scarcely one of the citiiens proper of this Territory is empanne'ied on this jury ? and that while you are in a Territory Ter-ritory of which nineteen-twentieths are Mor aions. you have not one Mormon on the jury, and that you, yourself, have Used illegal and extrajudicial powers to remove every Mormon from office, simply because he is a Mormon? Dont you know that lawyers of your own clique, and their clients, while tiny might not seriously object to your other judicial acts, are afraid tkat they will lose their causes.not here;but that an appeal ap-peal from sh 'h a jury would be set a; ide; and that while they might not object to criminal suits where Mormons are concerned, con-cerned, would not like to trust civil suits where iollars are concerned. Now, in speaking of juries, I would not be understood to undervalue miners and laboring men; it is honorable to obtain bread by the sweat of the bro; but it is the onesided, unfair. exceptional and illegal manner in which it has been done. The miners of Idaho. Colorado, California, Montana and Wyomiag Territories have been cursed in the past with such corrupt officers as those that have been inflicted on us, and after being be-ing mocked and taunted and outraged, have severally taken the law into their own hands, instituted Vigilance Committees, Com-mittees, and dealt out summary justice to aggressors, .there is a latent sense of justice among all men when uncon-taminated uncon-taminated by cliques, strategy and professed pro-fessed "civilization," that naturally revolts re-volts at injustice and wrong; and when crime, intrigue, fraud, oppression and injustice clothe themselves with the sanctity of religion, or are enwrapped in the folds of justice, there is a disposition dispo-sition to strip them of their covering and exhibit the monsters in all their naked and hideous deformity. If such fantastic tricks had been played upon any of the above communities that have been practiced upon us time aud again, the delinquents long ago would have been dangling higher than Hainan's Ha-inan's gallows; but here the citizens desire ihe law respected and honored under all circumstances Yet the idea of the con-piratois against the pr, p, r-ty, r-ty, lives and liberties of a commun, Ingoing In-going unwliipped of justice, and a few drunken soldiers, for blundering in carrying out their designs, being punished pun-ished with the utmost penalty of the law, is one of those acts that does not commend itself very highly to any honorable community. In New York (hey have their ju L-es to back up their gold, railroad and whisky "rings," nud they have aided materially those infamous swindlers engaged in railroad, whisky and gold frauds; and it is reported of the notorious noto-rious Jim Fisk, of the Fisk .t Gould gold conspiracy notoriety, that in his famous raid on the Erie R. R., New York, having feed a lawyer, he asked him his opinion about his ppjeeiod plan. The lawyer answered, "1'ou can accomplish your object, but it will be considered one of the greatest impositions im-positions and swindles that was ever perpetrated." He was an-wered by this conscientious "nngist :" "I did not a-k your opinion about the morality morali-ty of the affair; but can I do it and keep out of Slate's prison ?" But a our governor hai nq-'nti d and is converted, and is jTofo.-ni to be cncientinis "'' moral, shall fipi-rta irem-cal reform; ljotliint? - will suit the citi.en no mote ti - ling, nor doik-jnir. It limy do fir bl.i'L I, r and gamliler' and rem cad'-s to I c associated as-sociated with the-e itiLiiuo'.is en,, u, . ; but for a governor to so i. rra i" lorn Hlif is too t 1 " are sincere si ,n. w sh . ' the "rir,; ' ' IT- Hte 1 Vol f .I:! . ley "know no z, n-." vert- d. v u hr. t),f ti." Go .f.ti to t. .. I ,. w j,. "i j..:;r 1 e: ; ' , , , ! I, ,; 1 - e'. ::i. ii. 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