Show bAl1U MU 1J W1A1il iormoni and the Government Anthorltlts We believe there are no where in the Union amore a-more loyal people than the Latterday Saints Thoy know nt > other country except this They expect to live and die on this BolL To be Pt peace xrlth tho government and in harmony with their fellowcittrens who are not of their faith and to share in the confidence of the government and people our people hove TI vntsrlly put aside something which all their lives they hero believed to be a sacred principe princi-pe As shepherds of a pstlent and eufferng people we ask amnesty for them and jjitCyf our faith and honor for their future WILKORD WOODRUFF H J GRAKT LaRGE Q CAK > OS JOHN HENRY SMITH JOSEPH v SMITH JOHN W TAYLOR LORENZO SNOW M W MERIULU Moses THATCHER ANTHON H LUND FIIASCI8 M LVMAN ABRAHAX H CAKNOS i lAMaDf D KlCHAIlDS SALT LAKE December 191831 To the President We have the honor forward herewith a po tltlcn signed by the president and most influen tal members of the Mormon church We have WI doubt of tit twenty and no doubt that it is Intended in absolute goodfaUA The signers in elude Home who were moat determined In adher leg to their religious faith while polygamy either mandatory or permissive was one of its tc eta and they are men who would not lightly feige their faith and honor to the government I or subscribe to such a docu ment without having Su iy resolved to make thel words good in letter let-ter and spirit folued by A L THOMAS governor CHAHLIS S ZAIC chief justice Commissioners GOD nexT SAUXDKKS and ROBERTSON and Judges MIXTR BLACEBCRN and ANDERSON SAL LAKE December 1S31 > |