Show Specia lox ier 1 I j as n 1 1 11 we have hane been ic quesTed to publish t lic following statement by a well known and ie spon gentleman of this community whose position aud and stan standing diug aio ni e sufficient guarantee of the truth of nhat v hat he states stater and nho ho now has in ills his possession the original special order a copy of aich chich mis referred bcd to by I 1 connor in hn hil testimony the congressional committee the nanie name of our oar is at the aenice of any por soll nud and for auy any kropet purpose on application c on at thier office I 1 T the lle salt lake du ilif of february 1 1867 contains a lengthy editorial article under the following caption an infamous forgery A baso base fabrication and this editorial designates 9 and cites as that to w which the langog thus quoted applies the following special order I 1 salt lake city april 9 0 1858 the officer in command of cscott is licie by or ordered dereI to seo see that ever every man is well pie pid pared with ammunition and have it ready fit at the time you see those teamsters a bundled miles from the settlements president young advises that they sho should all bo be killed to prevent them from returning OF to tort ort bridger to to join our enomie enc mie ie E every very precaution should bo taken to see that no one escapes secrecy Is is re required c d it by older der of general D 11 II yells wells JAMES assistant A adjutant Gen vencial cial Fairlie bt and truth it is ib submitted the publication of the subjoined sub joined statement F first arst general connor did not submit this special order to congress nor to any member bero of fit it it aws to the house territorial committee and to man many other member of congress and officers of the federal government ern ment by another person it never has been in tho the hands of general connor longer than necessary for its perusal second this Spi special cial order is now ill possession posse D ision of a F federal officer in great salt eike lake city and can bo be seen at any time its handwriting hand writing is convincing 1 I ov evidence idena of ait its han having been produced by mr ferguson appended to it tire arc two affidavits a i davits by per on who knew sir ferguson lis bi hand band writing and official character perfectly ve ni ell and atho i be thus testify its 9 3 this special older mia is delim delivered reil ky by it 11 leading bishop then it as now an adopted son bon of I 1 Ir president resident young to a man swi still living and to whom tho the cscott cs coit to was assigned n d ecith strict its lilt i al sifi T this il man was subsequently stripped of bu hi kome property ro perty his family dnn dm on en from its humble hemblo home his own life frequently frequent ky since and now occasionally threatened for his disobedience sparing those teamsters for this lea ica aon and no other ho he has been fired at and wounded within three beani in the outskirts of great sa salt it la lake I 1 e city ci jk the I 1 teamsters referred to in this ibis special 01 older dar were about eighty ull unarmed armed men juell ho aero rero ere leaving fort bridger and tho the united state statch army forever nd about returning nin 11 through this territory to their respective to homes in anit anil by way of california the I 1 special older itself I 1 the officer ill in command of escort and thelca them cn composing that body or many of them 1 doubtless can can be produced by any one mormon 11 anon or gentile who lb lei 1 es to h asten ayd adal aaion afif af thing u I 1 w N |