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Show From an old Pioneer. Salt Lakb Citv, Utah, October 19th, 187ii. 1 Editor 1cralJ: Dear Sir: Aneut your recent kind review of Mr. Tullidge's " Life of Brigham Young; or, Utah and liar Founders," permit me to call your attention to tho following extract from a private letter, received by me this morning, from tho venerable Henry O'Rielly of New York. Mr. O'Rielly was the first editor of the lirst daily newspaper published west of the Huds'in, builder of tho pioneer telegraph lines of this country (including (in-cluding those which, when consolidated, consoli-dated, constituted the Western Union), is an incorporator in the Pacific Cable onmpany, and a lile-long ttterattitr, whose lavoralilu opinion is prized by a circle of distinguished friends, perhaps per-haps more extensive than that of any representative of the last genoiftliuii qdw living: " And now for a few words about 'the book,' so elegantly ele-gantly gotten up, and so useful in every way. I thank you heartily for it, as a friendly gilt, and (or other reasons. It brings up r world of thought iu mo. How vividly I remember re-member tho time when I received the first copy of the Book of Mormon, Mor-mon, and criticized some features of it in OUT Hnrhmilor nnnnr I r( 1 Q'ifl T believe). Aud now you give thiB fine volume about ' Utah and Her Founders' all springing . from the scanty seed that was sown in a hard soil, aud watered by tonrs of affliction from the Burvivors of those who were brutally murdered, like the pioneers, Hyrum and Joseph. What a monumsnt your volume roars to the living, as well as to the dead to Brigham Young, the moro-thau-Moses of an exodus, and of a state at least as remarkable as anything any-thing that sacred or profane history tells us. Nearly forty years ago I wrote tho drot volume ever published concerning concern-ing tho settlement of any city aud surrounding region in tho west; and I placed 'Settlement in the West' as the leading title of my 'Sketches ot Rochester aud Western New York.1 Now see what changes time and energy have produced. Brigham Young and his associates (some of them irom Western New ork) may well console themselves, after all their toils aud sufferings, by redacting that tl ley l.avo founded a community wuose iudusi ry and perseverance amid extraordinary dillicuitiss furnish vivid examples for all peoples through all time. " Respectfully submitted, L. S. CRl.Ni)i.L. |