| Show A THE ATTACK ON THE INDIANS ane THE report of orthe ahe grand jury con berning the vie indians who wila are now engaged in farming in the malad valley deserves more than the fhe passing notice we gave it yesterday the malevolence the report displays the untruths un truths it utters the insl nuat ons it contains and the hearsay statements and opinions it repe repeats ats mark it as the offspring of bf spiteful bigotry and malignant falsehood that some members of the grand jury have permitted the infamous document to go on the record without their solem solemn n protest against it is certainly a mayer mayor of i surprise tha report starts out with a brace of falsehoods first that certain indians who refused to stay on their reservations camped two years ago on Be bear arRiver juver fn an the immediate vicinity of corinne and secondly that the citizens of that place were alarmed at their attitude the indians referred to did not belong to any reservation at all their farms were not trot within ten miles of corinne and it ia is well known that the tha pretended alarm was nothing buta but a auseon ruse on the part of certain lively but unprincipled business men of corinne to obtain the loc atio atlo n of soldiers at that place to put a little vitality into their stagnant town the governor who was foolish enough to treat the matler matter seriously became the laughing stock of the whole territory including some of the very men who formed a portion of the grand jury which issued this report th the e indians were a few poor roving remnants of bands that bad become disorganized they offered no indignities to any auy one but instead of strolling about as men decants di cants and intruding upon the citizens of northern utah as had been their wont they were peaceably engaged in harvesting the crops they had bad raised by honest industry learned from mormon missionaries they were heartlessly driven from their only means of subsist subsistence erite forthe coming winter their crops were left iu in the fields and would have been entirely destroyed if what was possible to be saved had bad not been gathered up by a few white men who had some humanity in their souls jhb whole affair of the dispersion of the indians was alike disgraceful to those who commenced and these those who supported iland the fact that the red men in whom revenge en e s a virtue made no retaliation ti on is proof positive of the fallacy of th the accusation made against them the statements in the report that the legal place of residence for these indians in liv fort hall and that provision for their support is made there are wholly untrue As we have stated they have never belonged to a reservation and am when old Sag gag witch who rome some years sears agoras ago was shot by some soldiers without provocation becoming afraid I 1 iest lest e a t he might be shot again 3 went to fort hall at the disper slon slot above alluded to he was refused any assistance because he did not no belong to that reservation the next is incorrect there is no bishop shop george W hill hilj of ogden either elther at malad or elsewhere the brother hill who has for many years been a afkind kind friend to those poor nomads is not and never was a bishop that the indians have entered land under tinder the provisions of the bawa of the united states is true it is also true that they have paid their taxes which Is more than some white men man have done and having taken the steps required bylaw by law they are I 1 entitled to peaceable possession of their proper property in spite of all the false reports of grand I 1 urles juries and the malice of bec Rec sectarian tarlan officials the statement that there arm are no ino bouses built on the land laud occupied by the indians Is also a fabrication there phere are a n umber number of substantial dwelling houses bouses on that land and tho tha be terms of the statute in this hect reject have been complied with it t a also aiso 11 0 untrue that the indians 30 0 bu buu but t little work or that thab most of it is done by white menor mentor that any settler adjoining their farm or any one else Is annoyed by them unless it la Is some person who covets their landor Is filled with the same spirit of enmity against them as displayed bythe by the grand jury the prediction in the report that when the indians obtain the gov title to the land landin in ques tion it will be transferred to some white men Is a contemptible assumption for which the jury should have been rebuked by the court grand juries are not to prophesy nor qualified to bear false w witness tn based on hearsay and their belief or the belief of other persons about the entry or transfer of land larid concerning which they have no positive knowledge or sworn evidence la in entitled to no consideration but its expression only seems to show the animus which inspired the fabrication of their report after inserting a mormon let ter of instruction to one of the missionaries which by the by Is the only portion of the document that contains con bains a good sentiment or a true statement the grand jury affirm on their own authority that missionary work consisted lin jin performing manual labor while the indians loafed or wont went to fort hall for supplies we tell the grand jury rury ury that the whole of that statement is a wilful falsehood lind and that in uttering it they have violated their oath of office as well as forfeited the respect of every fair minded person like a wasp wap the report unfolds its real sting in its latter end in id the last paragraph the 61 mormon church is blamed for all the trouble manufactured for the occasion that church is the target aimed at in issuing the report we were not aware that it was the business of juries jeries to fulminate venom against churches church lea jea nor to enunciate opinions in relation to any form of faith or its effects but when buch auch bodies frame ln in the dixit of an attorney and put men in lega legal jeopardy without seeing or hearing bearing a witness in lu their caseb cases cases caseb there is no wonder that they play such fantastic tricks as making on chu churches iches u uttering therl ng baseless prophecies of imaginary of fences and adopting in 0 official reports the opinions and may mav be sos sols sob of irresponsible acquaintances we pronounce the report of the grand jury oh on the indians at joea r river a tissue of falsehoods foun founded d in malice and relieved only onig from unqualified evil by ahe the copy of a letter to a mormon missionary the wording and spirit of which ought to be enough of itself to refute the allegations in the body of the document to every fair mind with natural d discernment the only object of the ies les who have been sent among the outcast red men is to turn them from their evil habits instruct them in the faith of jesus christy christi and show them how to labor laboi for self sup support port the enil effects acts of thebe these deac teachings b in g a are seen in the peaceable disposition of indians once hostile their repugnance to shedding blood their worship of the almighty in the name of the nde Rde redeemer emeri and their plodding industry which la Is the surest sign of their reformat reformation torl iori and that a body of men dworn sworn to right action in a court of make ab aln attempt to deprive these repentant people of their posses and to malign the church and the missionaries who have been instrumental in ili biln bringing ring glug 1 about this remarkable improvement ought certainly to arouse in jn every trueheart true heart the warmest feelings of indignation |
