Show iAllrt AM LUlAlilY Mormons and the Government Authorities We believe there are no where In the Union amore a-more loyal people than the Latterday Saints They know no other country except this They expect to live and die on this soil To be 1lt peace with the government and in harmony with their fellowcitizens who are not I of their faith and to share in the confidence of the government and people our people have Toluntarily put aside something which all their lives they have believed to be a sacred principle princi-ple As shepherds of a patient and suffering people we ask amnesty for them and pledge our faith and honor for their future 1 WJLFORD WOODRUFF H J GRANT GEORGE Q CANNON JOHN HENRY SMITH JOSEPH F SJMITH JOHN W TAYLOR LORENZO SNOW M W MERRILL MOSES THATCHER ANTHONH LUND FRANCIS M LYMAN ABRAHAM H CANNON FRANKLIN D RICHARDS SALT LAKE December 19 1891 To the President We have the honor forward herewith a petition pe-tition signed by the president and most Influential Influen-tial members of the Mormon church We have no doubt of Us ftncerity and no doubt that it is I intended absolute good faith The signers in I elude some who were most determined in udhcr lag to their religious faith while polygamy either mandatory or permissive was one or its tenets and they are men who would not lightly pledge their faith and honor to the government or subscribe to such a docu ment without having fully resolved to make thai r words good in letter let-ter and spirit Signed by A L THOMAS governor CHARLES tS ZANE chief justice Commissioners GOD TREY SAUNDERS and ROBERTSON and Judges MINER BLACKBURN and ANDERSON SALT LAKE Decembers 1SOI |