Show RETURNED TO ITS VOMIT To the Editor of The Herald There appeared in your issue of the I 13th init a communication over the nom de plume of Utonian The correspondent cor-respondent alludes to the course of the Salt Lake Tribune in a way that Is by no means complimentary but eminently eminent-ly Just Here is a brief extract hJ Is sowing the seeds again as was done a few years ago when It and its friends were the chief Instigators of what proved to be one of the most thrilling chapters that this people has been called upon to pass through namely the Cane creek massacre that took place in the state of Tennessee Your contemporary replies as follows fol-lows lowsA A correspondent of our apostolic morning contemporary supplies that organ with what he Intended should b a most bitter denunciation of this journal jour-nal He shows his hOPe intention to be exceedingly mean but he lacks ability I to bring out what he wanted to say except In coarse and bungling sen tences He gives himself away too gves by frequently using the air which is the address of legislative bodies and by again seeking to convey the falsehood false-hood that the wild men In the pinewoods pine-woods of eastern Tennessee were prompted to kill some Mormon missionaries mis-sionaries who were preaching polygamy polyga-my there some seventeen years ago He succeeds only in drawing pity to himself The massacre referred to occurred at the house of James Condor on Cane creek Lewis county Tennessee on Sunday Aug 10 1SS4 The victims were Elders John H Gibbs and W S Berry of Utah Martin Condor and J R Hud Martn son son and stepson respectively of James Condor During the onslaught J R Hudson shot and killed David Hinson the leader of the murderers As the mob were about to leave the scene of their atrocious work they fired a parting volley through the window and severely wounded Mrs Condor On Sept 22 following few weel safer s-afer the tragedythe writer of this delivered in the Salt Lake theatre at the request of a number of prominent citizens n lecture entitled The Ten nessoe Massacre and Its Causes or the Utah Conspiracy In vindication of the statement of your correspondent Utonian I desire to present a few extracts from this lecture which apply to some extent to the present situation In the state of Utah There is another source more prolific of defamation In this community I refer re-fer to the Salt Lake Tribune the organ of the conspirators I wish that source to furnish some of the evidence to sustain sus-tain the position that 1 take tonight There was published on March 15 1884 what was termed A Red Hot Address l purported to have been delivered by a Mormon bishop named West In the little town of Juab in the southern portion of this territory I was very prudent to select a little side station for the discovery of a forgery would not in the opinion of the conspirators be so easily made if perpetrated upon a place of that kind What was the character of that Red Hot Address said to have been delivered by aMor monO bishop I recommended the assassination sassination of those who opposed I the Mormon community One of the objects of the wrath of Bishop Vest was his excellency Governor Ell H I Murray And Bishop West told his audience au-dience thtn1tB was f Imperative I duty to seize upon his excellency and tread him down until his bowels gushed out on the streets and that those who should succeed him If they did not behave be-have themselves better toward the Mormon community than he should be treated in n similar way This Red Hot Address was true with a few trifling exceptions I wish you to note the exceptions for the organ of the conspirators con-spirators does not stand upon trllles not by any means In the first place there is no Bishop West In the Mormon church and ling not been for many years There was a meeting held in Juab on the day on which that address was said to have been delivered No address of that kind was ever delivered deliv-ered With these trifling exceptions the address was entirely correct I wish you to note this fact however how-ever that Ir there ever were any Individuals Indi-viduals on the face of this earth susceptible sus-ceptible o Wins I rtpcelyd they are 0 Mil r r the editors of the Salt Lake Tribune I They are so innocent so guileless so I harmless themselves that they do not think that anybody would do anything wrong They are remarkable fpr Innocence in-nocence Why n child might deceive them that Is providing providing they are supplied with something that will scandalize the characters of the Mormon Mor-mon community Then they are easily deceived Very easily deceived Indeed So thin Red Hot Address was a canard can-ard They were very much deceived They even went so far a to say that they were really Imposed upon by som person who furnished that address for publication and they made an apology What an apology it was An apolOgy for an apology Let me see what kind of an apology they made for this Red Hot Address fabricated out of whole cloth Here is n quotation from the paper pa-per of which I am speaking The case of the fledTHot Address has been cited which was corrected as soon as the managers of this Journal found they had been Imposed upon Here Is a qualification to that apology apol-ogy quoted from the same sheet There was not n thing In that bogus sermon which ha not been taught in the tabernacle harangues What do you think of an apology of that kind I call that a reassertion of the fabrication and the apology Is worse than the first falsehood I will give you another sample apology apolo-gy for something else goodness knows what that appeared In that Innocent sheet Here it is By a mistake a Jot appeared In the Tribune yesterday which does not reflect re-flect the sentiments of any owner or director of this journal I was too as objectionable in manner a mater I was altogether wrong Us publication publica-tion Is a matter of pain and mortification mortifica-tion to us and we grieve sincerely that It ever found Us way into the Tribune I Can you tell to what that refers What predicament does that leave you and me In ladles and gentlemen I leaves you and me In this dilemma that we must apply that apology to the entire sheet and you must do that In order to cover the ground When the elders go abroad they have a great deal to meet For instance I will explain what they had to encounter In western and middle Tennessee where the Alders who were slain on Cane Creek were laboring What was the situation before that horlble tragedy was consummated Everywhere they went they had presented to them the Red Hot Address published in this city by the organ of the conspirators It was specially handed about and circulated cir-culated by a Baptist preacher named Vandevcr of Hohenwald Lewis county I have the facts here holding up u letter let-ter in his hand giving names and details from one of the survivors of the massacre on Cane CreekElder W Hones H-ones It has been said that there ha been no evidence of the Red Hot Address Ad-dress ever having gone to Tennessee Not only was that Red Hot Address there but Elder Gibbs who was slain and Elder Jones who survives presented pre-sented to this Baptist preacher whom 1 have named a refutation of the slanderous slander-ous fabrication In order that he mIght redress the evil that he had accomplished accom-plished by Us dissemination among the people and which had inflamed the minds of the populace to surh an extent ex-tent that they were prepared largely j by that statement or alleged address purporting to have been delivered by a Mo men bishop to shed the blood of th9 elders and they did i and the blood of innocence is upon the skirts of those who perpetrated that infamy The authorship au-thorship of an Indirect cause of the murder is now traced home to them they cannot relieve themselves of i I have seen no reason to withdraw the facts stated by me In the Salt Lake theatre on the evening of Sept 2 ISSt they are Irrefutable Neither have I had cause to change the deduction made from the premises they furnish It Is logical JOHN NICHOLSON Salt Lake City Feb G 1 1SD9 |