Show SOME M STARTLING LING FACTS A saint of thirty years standing Un burdens his bosom and tells what he knows of the mountain meadows massacre brigham young and john D di lee the twin assassins massacre of the innocent emigrants by the profit HAMILTONS rout rosr A AV aug V 12 lait 1874 EDS riia k tho the indulgence of a 0 space in your cc col I 1 amos lor for the purpose of regaling rel aling a few lacta facts which urbich to lo myself byrell and may not lo be to III tho 0 majority ity ot of your reader rhodem la in th the a semiweekly semi Sem keelly Weekly deseret nowr lor for sal bat arday may blay aj etli appeared the follow lug cat ions at a fablio IOK la in allu aitt Y 8 under antu g ad ainia g 24 1871 1971 0 oco 00 A irick of fort on was cat oil tho the charch of es t christ of sainta tor for the above iq ii a very brief and un a tw bugi iless man W 10 might octor notice I 1 a paragraph hichi uy my aimis abo ar arc i e trill of 0 tho mormon faith would I 1 acel I 1 sad bail as a they rca arcail 1 it and my enemies would ic rejoice at my dow n fall and chont akon it w orald bo be utterly forgotten not so with myself rn in the notice ol of my excommunication tie renders only heir hear one siao or of the iho cue ity I 1 ha endeavor to 10 give THE otilit or of tho the forty cara of ray lire thirty hare been abent in the ho mormon 11 ormon church I 1 with my fathers tiit liera fA unity nilly was ivas from nauvoo I 1 thought it very cruel at the time and 1 till think so in i fact I 1 have biro bared eliar cl aad borrowa the and defeats of ithe chereb for thirty years imamoto I 1 cabe to utah sa III 1852 strong in the faith of mormonism I 1 hav 8 seen been the iho church when it was wa hill nil 0 1 christian Chri tun charity charily and brotherly love in 1850 1830 cuno abt is bat is ia called TRE TOS which swept over the th a country 1 I liko like a 11 tornado it vms as then tor for tho the first time kimol I 1 hearl heard ito iho doctrine doctrin ii oxblood of Blood atonement men in ia the church boull say it i you yoa should find t our father or your your ter ler or your brother dead by the tha way able say bay nothing about it but papa pa on jib a t your own blaine bus inam a the hie wildest fanaticism everywhere secret deaths dea began to bo be QUITE COMMO COUiI OS N it if we heard of a secret murder marder in ia san pete or cliche cache valley we know knew the of elio lord was progress jog I 1 aaa as then a 0 citizen of spanish rork fork city and bo be it nid mid to the honor hanor of that place no DO one has ever been lulled killed by any priestly assassin inide in ijo ot of its borders bord cra E in the year ma while dobri johnsona cons army wm was on the plains a company ol of emigrants camo came into utah I 1 row them pass through spanish fork I 1 they hey viere quiet and or orderly er they Ira voled on to tl tile tho south an and stopped on the bottom between spanish lork fork and to rett reft their team a sad ad in a week or two continua conti nud oud their jour ney tho the next news I 1 heard of thorn thom was they had bad all been killed by I 1 the be indian 1 it was waa afterwards thit that white men BCD and indiana together led by ODO john D I 1 lee had done the me deed but nothing definite defini waa known to tho the public la in I 1 lie ile autumn of ika 1831 1 with my family was called calf fd on a mi eion to WA LILington toa county to raise cotton in washington I 1 was wae told tod that many loany of tho the men there hid had been to capol t said 1 I what do you mean oh the mountain Mon meadows but dont say bay that I 1 told you said my cautious caul loua informer I 1 1 liOt iced that all those men were in id full in the he r hurch and some or of them were ivero th tho ile loudest preachers and could bear tos or of TIRS tins I 1 thou glit I 1 mould soon bo be able to break down their influence in society noci oly fis as soon BOOM an 08 I 1 got a little I 1 maid at washington ono one year and a liili and then to ll harmony armony that settlement was file at that lillie of john 1 D lee and ho he WAS the presiding elder cider of that branch of the church surely thought 1 I Brig graham liam you young a g J docs not dot know that bat loe lee is tile tho man who led tile indiana and man who A OP OF emte people leo is u fl ile ho is if sin ao eloquent preacher of mormonism and has been iery in making dialing converts when I 1 had bad been at ilar mony ono year brigham young youn came to harmony mony passed through it and drovis up to tho the residence of 0 john D leel led larom that timo time toy my confidence in brigham began to tofano nano could it bo be po Bibla that the of god could und end no better men TO ASSOCIATE TUAN THAN JOLIN D lk then ticul I 1 tiled to argue the circumstance from my mind by saying it was not my bu bin binem 0 lo 10 o 8 bay ay where the servant god should stop or hom they boy should stop with T time I 1 I 1 passed assed on until lb tho 0 murder 0 f D r ad K robinson son of after ter that thai event I 1 brigham yount young preached a sermon in silt luko liko city in m which ho he used the foll following wing IZ Lingua go there are some things which I 1 cannot bear r to lo contemplate the ho hounds will massacre the mountain Mou owa ow iDa mu sacro sacre red tho the murder of dr Hobina jn are arc atrocities of this sort these mid lie iio 1 I n bear to think daout abdal but LET TIIE usiri br v KEEP arr OATUS A AM no coVE SAyrs M that list fast remark is if bil i fichot tho sermon containing t that r t arts was wan in tho the deseret I 1 real read i it I 1 and ro re real read it my mind which hal had wavered litween two to ol opinions inions iODa ODO ano iu in favor avor of brigham young il innocence and tho the other it brother brigham is ia all right I 1 enid mi nuj and is not in IB favor of leo lee and crime the people kirilo Kio ilo of harmony bad got tins of leo lee and liil bai put another dian anan iu in lis his jolico to preside over then them 1 but bat leo wait stilt dill allocc 1 to preach two or three times a mouth lo in one imal ill I 1 raised m an objection and cited Brig baui youngs sermon a 4 amet leo lee anil and thought to 11 him in io in public lee who understood his osis mith clio prophet lct ter thin hiu I 1 did brovata ly informed we that I 1 did not goow brother brigham as 13 well wall as 13 lie ia did ho ha bro Brig haim dil ald SOT NOT MEAN M IUD SAID in dijt hi bermon iio lad bui stalked that sov nay to blind the tha eyes cyc of the bo go 1 anil and to disaffected aridi ludm Juala I 1 als su bubli c 11 as I 1 was vas I 1 felt indigena tit in ia the highest degroo that tho the character 0 should to batra tra deuced by a man who whoa 0 o hand haind I 1 ijo be gloved to la a STAI flEU A atit INNOCENT BLOOD I 1 immediately informed brigham young by loiter letter oi of lees slanderous attert 0 recommending that leo be out cut off f from rom tho the church CLur cli I 1 waited for au an answer it camo came promptly to hand the prophet fifoot oot think thank mo me for iho I 1 hail giron him but on the contra rybe to th think I 1 that I 1 had taken a part rl in ia tho clio mountain Houn luin affair all air tied on oa that conclusion advised me to talo take a DOSE OF bore rore MY MT KECK with kith a jerk that little bit of pro advice I 1 did not obey from that time forth I 1 have believed that let leo 0 it is I 1 aca acq with tho the than I 1 BID am TO thiA i hont ore it ng mormon tb ibero C 01 ol niini mine will seem cem incredible but they are nevertheless I 1 tino flue I 1 do not wish to do young physical physic tl haria barm but I 1 will bay to til all men mca who roil road this article arti clo that if I 1 had only been I 1 A giors I 1 m litt have bave rodo roan cheek by b y jowl with wilh the I 1 prophet Iro ir phet as lee b abs as done dode arid been in cool standing i in a cho alio church 00 oo oa the ho day or of april 1871 I 1 saw BW john D let IAO ride into Ka Ra Darrah carrah oa libnic backay backby bok by tho the sido side of bus brig hums hams youdea carri charrisce land and reported be same baroo to THE ho I 1 I 1 was waa vi ut so doing bop henry ilon lunt ol of cedar city cit alim juliao mo on on the lio subject I 1 did T not et deny the fact and was van immediately cut off without even a beating or any kind alfew more wordia nd I 1 will close I 1 wei was a member ot of the mormon for nearly dorly thirty i years and never bal ba l a charge of 0 any kind brought imbt mei bave aldays livel i a m moral oral lire I 1 lave havo no faith in iino of the ho religious ona of tho the days day but like madam do sta sin 1 I 1 have loved god list r y aud and ahle liberty r ty the reader roii it judge whether I 1 late hare or have haro not haljasz hal just tor for I 1 oro OEO A |