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Show GOVERNOR SHAFFER WRITES. In yesterday evening's Dexertt Xcws appears a rather extraordinary production produc-tion in the shape of a letter from his Excellency Governor Shaffer, addressed address-ed to General De Trobriand. That the readers of the Herald may have the full benefit of it we append it entire: en-tire: Executive Department, 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 1'rovo, and as far as I can learn no action has been taken on the part of the military to bring them to punishment, nor has there been any official report made public by the officer in command, statins: stat-ins: all the facts. I have waited thus long in the earnest ear-nest hope that you would have taken such action in the premises as would convince the citizens that the soldiery was stationed at Provo to protect and not destroy. Hearing nothing like an explanation from 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 see that they are properly tried, and if convicted, punished. I insist on this for the reason that much feeling feel-ing exists in this community against the Federal officers and soldiers, growing grow-ing out of this transaction, and that feeling is extended to all the Federal officers. As Governor of the Territory I am sworn to execute the laws, which, if possible, I propose to do, and in so doing I shall have as high a regard for the property and persons of Mormons as of any other class or denomination. In short : I ku.jw no distinction and shall know n me as between citizens of this Territory. All are entit.ed equally alike to whatever aid, assistance or protection pro-tection I 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 spe-cial guardians of the rights and liberties liber-ties of those among whom they are stationed, coming here at the expense of the Government to aid and assist the civil authorities in securing to all men their rights, in place of which they have taken it upon themselves them-selves to execute all manner of violence and mob law n sati.-fy their own individual and personal grievances. If the U. S. soldiery cannot can-not fulfill the high object they were sent here for, then far better, for t'i" s?ke of the credit of the nation and the American armies, we be let alone to ourselves. Itespectfully, Vour obedient servant, 'Signed) J. W. Siiafff.p,, Governor U.T. To Gen. P. IL. De Trobriand, - (.'amp Douglas, U. T. V.'f have o:;.. t'.:e this morning to briefly comment on this leUcr, as the paper containing it reached us somewhat some-what late. The Governor says "several "seve-ral days have now elapsed;" that means five; and since Friday the Herald Her-ald has been calling on the Governor tj explain the connection between his proclamations and the Provo outrage, which followed so quickly after them. V'e are gratified that his Excellency has broken the silence, si-lence, though the required explanation U still wanting, ari l the columns of the Herald are open for it. The governor gover-nor .-eems to be lacking certain information infor-mation which he should have po.-.ics-ied hiui-elf of before malting an uncalled for attack on General Do Trobriand, when he speaks of ihe "outrages perpetrated per-petrated by a portion of your soldiers at Provo," and that no action had "been taken on the part of the military authorities au-thorities to bring them to punishment." punish-ment." We believe General DeTro-biiaud DeTro-biiaud was n jt in command of the j.o.-t at Camp iUwliu ; wo believe he was mo:e prompt in hi - efl n n to have the matter inve.-l.igat.ud than Governor .Shaffer, at we understand he did all an energetic officer could do by telegraphing tele-graphing to General Augur on Friday, a.-, '-eon as the news reached this city, without waiting until the following Tue-'Jay; and, I'm thermo' c, the Gen-(riil Gen-(riil we believe it in Provo attending to the affair, iiist'-ad of waiting at. Camp lj:i;;la-i ' fceivo eojnuiurii'ei-t'o- i. ' et from the Governor; i !' an if hii Excellency -. hIow in hi movc- . . 1 i' , wipulc blame wilh- i i point', in the Gov- ' h mil hear com n I. . ' ' nee ( of t lie hour .,'. u ve them. When oj 1 ' mji.lain t lie Mate- 'ii' ' tii i, .. r in an ::. I r.'t'ii'l:-:.:ii r.'t'ii'l:-:.:ii , .: i' i i " i m to mum "u . . '. ' l'ii. I'licre i i no doubt. II PI llll Ml yqiBMW" .i.uBviTfT3Ml"iLi,..il the lawless action of the soldiers who asserted they had "men to back them," has interfered with preconcerted arrangements. ar-rangements. Why have parties connected con-nected with the "ring" been chuckling over it in this city, thinking it a ptctty good thing, and otherwise showing their sympathies with the act? We have got the proof of what we write, aud it can be furnished if demanded-Why demanded-Why was this the case? And why was the statement made on the public street on Sunday evenirg, by one who was posted, that the raiding soldiers sol-diers would be severely punished, with the intimation that it was not so much because they had committed the outrage out-rage as because that outrage had forestalled fore-stalled a more serious attack against the citizens of this Territory? We ask for information. But in the light of these things, the letter of the Governor has very much the appearance of an after-consideration. |