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Show A' Jlorwons" and Their - The Euemies. (CONCtCCED.) o the ffa fed the Indians; came here hungry by the due tftem out of the suow in ,h0U nursed, them when and robbers thies nBao Sugh '..ham Blundered our ranges of the we fed eml-wh- ' ex- '! valuable cattlethe and horses, we our of protection o them tried taken, Some of . .. a a.nB.Mt.AWufl r rr linn i v iidrrisooeu, were vJ . in the spring and aided on their L with altaost"as brutal as that practise upon us by' our religious trainers, bt Christian clergy, and their assistants in the United States. Page 15G of your book says, "It is scarcely pretended that Brigham Young gave the order for the Mountain Meadow Massacre,' but he took ne steps to bring the murderers to i. .v justice.' Now the facts of this are, President Young, whQhad been superseded as Goreruorby Alfred Cummiug, requested him and United States Oibtrict Attorney Wilson to investigate this matter. He offered to go with them; guarantee their protection, and use his influence for the arrest of every party desired; and that were compromised whil he was a tair trial be had. This was refused by the judiciary, notwithstanding it was We had successfully contend-?riimore urged, by the far wars, iwograsshepper povernfir and Attorneyfas an investigation It this BuVjebt. woiil Jiiao ho present pne in war, till ba the .24th wot bring aj guilt upon those Whom po" DUe iitical and religious intriguantes wished Saw. - to ciiaiiuate. We are still desirous for ujuiuwere eng!gea ceieurauug "b'e daj 'K Cottonwopd, Lake, that a fair investigation of, tbja subject, but feung bad been removed from do' not want it to- be investigated before 2ego eruor; that 2,500 infantry, two a, religious bigot or political trickster. Omenta of cavalry ana two queries Let the oSieera who hhBdle1 this matter to Uiab; and be just, high minded men. y .firtill'ry were ordered most On was the the outfit book game page your compUte refers to ut their , the i mc Morrisites. an 10 Morris had viiici iuiu gathered iiij, ?er around him some idlers,' who had "topiommanJ to be given to Gen. Harney, in Utah by the name of ped work, and were living from cattle'on ,10 was knwn and whose very name the range. One of thir cumber had Sqnaw Killer," our people a it iih among apostatized from them, and had been tirried horror; and what was more. sign- sentenced by tbem to die. His friends, ificant, all 'he administration papers in terror, appealed to the United States with threats Chief Justice of Utah to save bis life, as mdnuny others were fi.led blood and slaughter. he was imprisoned in Kingsion Fort, 4f extermpiwtiou, Senator Douglas, in held by the Morrisites, and would bo Ten our old killed immediately. The Chief Justice upetch, requested the administration issued a writ of habeat corpus. Iht)'oflicer local out the loathsome ulcer, meaning was resisted, his life threatened, and he fiah; and what was more significant, ihel'nitfd States mail was stopped. The forbidden to retura on puin of death. said The Judge, John F.Kiiioey, called upon op!e struggling with the desert iitteirhears, "This ruians broodshed." tue uovernor for a posse, wnich were Mormons being fbeo the mob bfgau operations in Jack-kaccordingly, ordered. county he United States mail was the citizeus, were of course called upon d When like operations mpped, Uiigkam Young, on hearing of this, in Clay county the United States visited tbe Chief Justice, and remon At the commencem- strated against this proceeding, and the mil was slopped. ent of mob interference in Caldwell Judge insisted that tbe majesty of the law - must be preserved. ' President wtinftlie United States mail was stopthe disturbance began Younz urged that they were a band of ped ki soon as tilt brought about the assassination ot fanatics entrenohed in a fort, who would Joseph and II rum Smith, the mail was fight, and probably many lives would be The commencement of house lost; but if they were left alone, in a stopped. kroing in Hancock county ia 1S45 was short time, with their idle habits, they iimul:an.ous with the stoppage of the would scatter. 7 "But the Judge still per Mil; and if the government has stopped sisted that the dignity of the court must tie mail, we need expect no mercy, be maintained. I vuited the Chief the "judging present by the long and Justice myself, sot knowing of President litter past." Some Utah people had the Young's visit, and insisted that the more ontract for carrying the mail. One was and wrong; and furlbe:, kindred th usand dollars had been exthat it would be construed by our enepended in sleeking life raid, which was mies as a persecution of the Morrisites ill lost, t ( . i ;i.and was calculated to the Mormons, by Ia the spring of 1858 I went to do us immense injury... The Judge in- Washington with a petition to ask .for iSistiwl that, tnis ftould. not be but tbe the admission of Utah into the Union. majesty of the law must be maintained It was well known in the States that He could not allow those people to. kill the peo; le of Utah had lost their crops their prisoners, or threaten an officer of the previous year through grasshoppers. the court. It is therefore an injustice to ff bid., indeed, ired on half allowance tikis as ja Mrmoa p'erseeuiJyh. tfbriadfor a year, and it was believed SpnsJrue. yoar reference to.Burtin that we must inevitably starve; and they if untrue., Kerned disappointed to fiad us in good ' Your account of the Mormon doctrine iealih and applying for admission Into of blood atpueinent is, to1 me, entirely tie Union." The church forty-tw- o press of both parties new 11 have beea tsnmenced a universal tirade of abuse Lave been acquainted years, and '4 falsehood concerning, the people of forty "four years with its founders. We ttih. We were unab:e to get any pa-- r have had soma extremists and some exof prominence to i, correct these treme men, but I never heard any one. or publish was that advocate' the ' extreme doctrine you anything reliable impute to us. The beautiful womaa I returned to Utah nn Xfa or,.. you describe as being killed by her husalmost a year not a singlo package band I never beard of; she must have m brought into Salt Lake by the mail been a myth. We believe in the death from the east. When it did come every-"n- g penalty. Our territorial laws were entha. had not been plundered had acted in acoordance with our faith, Give I hate n doubt but the tbe murderer his cheioe to be Jen opened. bung or to Mody. extermination of our have bis on blood the people spilled ground. wM have been carried oat, had it not Utah have refused to bang mea jurors wnfore the humane influence of n who had killed the seducer of their Houston, of Texas, and Colonel wives and daughters On page 140 you nomas L. Kane, of Pennsylvania, or say, "Polygamy was revealed to Smith to other miraculous Intervention on meet some difficulties of a social eharao-te- r Part of the with which he found himself embar Almighty. Brigham pg etexnly and instruct-wall rassed." Ii is not so. It should read, continually of his speeches and proclama-t- o Tbe revelation of plurality of wives the people and orders te his caused Joseph Smith to be embarrassed . ttat no blood should be shed, and with some difficulties of a social characww4 them if they would implicitly ter. He was a rigidly moral, virtuous J his orders that they should come and pure man, and nothing but a sense VTphant. Nearly all the deeper-Met- i of the awful responsibility of disobeying charged against the people of the Almighty caused him to teaoh or pracu jMcurred during this period. tice a principle which increase manifold ' feelings of a people: the the responsibilities and burdens of mea. topped; the The Spaulding story is a myth, and army " ent out thebest appointed head-'11by United States exceedingly shallow. I am ashamed of who lTntd ' h? & bloodthirsty the credulity of my fellow-me" ' ' the w.y to cat out lieve it r 1 i11"." "J ' .il fu'me uIcer-We been have' committed in Murders ft " vaUw 7 ere withut arms and Utah; but en investigation these troubles invariably prove to be individual J;168, P'aces 1 ever saw in Mor not'unfrequently growing g deiermined out of cattle and Mii .J WJ" thRl held the i,owi ! i,i t,p:!T,1:.V .: Had Wtaw!h0ldUontil th knif o"l you traveled all over Utah during away; and this was danB 5n a the exoiting year of 1857, in the same ...j. "urom manner u,;i... Dioousneu kind, gentle and peaceful manner that "arn... u you have done in tbe p?st twe years, raen, acting you would not have been molested. I thank you for sending me the book. Julian iSp,rit &nd iufluence of the references I have made 'have been' fMM tbey The reeiTd, iti? cls of v'caoe-- : All these very hasty, and in the Absence of my Pwln ,mLU8ly ceUed by a gen-'e- library and journals. Qn pagv91!of theUni: your book you accuse us, like the Puritans, ' of persecuting other sects. From the foundation ot'the dhurch'v tor the ont of the difficuKies; present, ministers' ''of all denominations 4i.k bioc been, so far as I have been invhed te preach in our k.i!SD-0lMen of all persuasions have done f thVlMtT10l!li0a of ral .lPe0p eof,UlRh; though the business in our settlements without ,Vheti some 6 f these' business v..t tood faith nn th 1... meA whom we have made,Tibr with ouf V!1 Pi" trade used that, means and influence to lo Pea,, induce the eountry to shed our blood, 'Ten your we withdrew our trade from them; and ,i(h all the lets of vlBCe ,n occurred during ihe war 'of '57 were done under anx tr them & firm co.ftv.ic.tion, pa th.s art of our feoextremists, !' irp" Ser b Kan-dfm- d crto i8. mi j1!6 ! - -- feel-jj.o- f frit-nd- ; cm-Ence- d '..' - J , decreed our pie, that the nation had a spirit of from not and . persecution. not inMy reference te preachers is have reason I as tended to apply to ,all, to believe that some Christian ministers deprecate these acts of persecution, of any of though I have no knowledge them speaking out, either In public prist or in the pu pit, against them. We have had. professors of religion of different deneminations as federal officers in the Territory, who have been impartial, and not disgraced themselves and their professional hener by tramp ling the law under fot to injure tbe people, thoueh as a rule the federal of ficers of the Territory, I believe, have been bigoied tricksters, unworthy the confidence of thr ir neighbors, and prob ably, sent , to Utah to. get rid of tbem. Yeu say, page 96: "I find it bard to believe that any odu'catfcd man can have or have had a real faith in tue inspiration of. Jeseph Smith or Brigham Young" What other motive than real una couia have prompted men to endure the er secution and suffering which this faith inevitably brought 'apon them! I find it hard to believe that any educated, honest man, with the evidenee which exists before his eyes f its truth, can reject it. 'believe that many who entered the church with a firm couriction of the truth have been induced to abandon it through persecution. You certainly have as good a right to your belief on this subject as 1 have to mine. Not a single criminal connected with tarring and feathering, burning hundreds of houses, murdering men while trying to put out the fire of their burning buildings, the bloody scenes of the Blue, Ilauu's. Mill, Crooked Kiver, Qoose Creek, the j boasted ravishings of Mormon women at their meeting grounds, the murder of their prophets, tbe driving of tens of thousands of people into tbe wilderness and robbing tbem of nearly all they possessed I have never known ef a State er national court bringing one of those criminals te justiee, but do know mstunces wbere Mormon court, Mormon jmy,' and Mor mon officers have executed a .Mormon for killing an outsider. Thomas Ford, then Governor of Illinois, in a letter to my father and myself, in 1844, said many of the people of tbe State regret ted the manner in wbicb Joseph and Hyrura Smith, were killed, but wvre glad they were dead. Their murderers were admitted to bail for $1,000 each, allowed to go security for. each! other, and of ,r! course' were acquitted.' The: weather is fine There are 1 CO masons and tenders, with seven carpen ters(1 at work on the Temple building here.' - Ninety five quarry men abd twenty-f- lui'"g- Hmte;;TKP WANTED BAliLEY WAKTJED. ' ' , r ' f The Ilighcst market price in CVh wiu be paia .. Ht 't.i..-- "iU i i Ths Highest Market Trice in Cash will be paid.1 s73-2u- : Ogtlen, Vtutu, I UTAH. ) 5 r ' U1CHTEB at WEUS. BUCIIMILLKZt Barley, d GROVE BREWERY, U. P.. BREWERY, ' OQIIBS;" two-rowe- f Barley wanted atrthe IUjUUU of 500(Hr ROWED TWO A AAABUSHELS 1 4 One door south Z.C.M.I., O0PKrN 10. i $ " LO C AW j it '''J' i 4 .nil Dwlrji.V. i.iuhcifjiA. f RXNC H , 1 ft 5' t '-- m' ' M.lvm famish a Z.'C.' Offer to the public a full and complete assortment of ' n!ijvh;ik; 'itii;: iiC 1:, . Xlgat OWE HUNDRED DOLLAE '.'.'tii ' '! ' Jv'--!' ' Ai:!,!! IhiuI ! 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" LEATHER ! ;' BEST MADS AKB " -' t put-pi;- s. t , i :nof;hidentof - ij 1 ii MB t - m itt5. k. MEEOHDISE; 1 them away Cayenne pepper will free Mom Winchtettr ,J)enia?rat ' keep the buttery and store-roo' from ants and cockroaches, If a mouse makes an entrance into any on 1 part of your dwellings, saturate a rap with cayenne, in solution, and stuff ',: :' . ; :? ir AT COGTt - ' tf J "i it into the hole, which can be repaired witb either wood or mortar. vi i' ' ' No rat or mouse will eat that rag for Keep constantly o&kaad a fall aimU the purpose of opening communicaDARXESS ASD TRIHM1X6S, tion with a depot of supplies.":-- e . ' ' Send orders 8TOVES a specialty. Produce taken at the highest market rates;. rates. load at car Freight guaranteed early for Machinery ri "luu ' ' V'' : Tre, ' The Scientific American, wMcb is high, authority, gives the following: "If mosquitoes or other hlooa-suckeinfest our sleeping" rooms , at night, we uncork a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal,' and these animals leave in great haste, nor will they retura to long aa the air in the room is loaded with the fumes of that aromatic her p. If rata enter the cellar, a little powdered potash thrown into their holes or mixed with meal and scattered in their runways never fails to drive d; r ,V With the "Carey" down or mounted power;,.will aUo reeelve orders for the Evarfs patent Shingle Machine.; Empire, Saw lMJU with Rosier; owe's! aDd Cane Millar Planters Steam cob and Corn Mills. Corn Crushers; Edgar's ,v in xinds'of all Le., ic. Aldfaler : GCO. A." SMITH. ; To Destroy Vermin. i hd .r-om- T Z i GROCERIES, " ':-- ii 'a''. New York Tost. ' n eutor-prisu- j 'V"Y , 1 horse-stealin- :l:v.(UtI ' F lhefe i.,id t. . e ,. ? CoV, Invincible brator Th resher , . ) MERCHANDISE Gen-Sa- & Agent for KINGSLAND, FERGUSON . ! . - t STAPLE & FANCY false-kwd- c ft' stonecutters are' iat 'work'in.the quarry. More than yfifty tots of rock arts daily laid in the wal- l- Lime burners, woody lime, stone and sand haulers and road makers, and lumbermen and lumber haulers amount to 120 men more. The lumber and timbers are hauled sixty-fivmiles across a desert, forty of, which. ' are. without water. " W A portion: of the road is now almost DRY GOODS, impassable from mud. Tbe walls of the ' NOTIONS, building are about forty feet high. ive is ! V.I I 1 K in-th- r J boM. &uB( Vra Tr4 CoM Port- - " ' "VICTOR" - . 1 hit . r 5 |