| Show LIBERTY ONCE MORE THREE PRISONERS roia E tife DETROIT HOUSE OF COR COB CHICAGO AND ALTON R R ILL 8 pm oct 1 editor deseret N news ew 8 we were set at liberty on oct at 11 a m at winch which tune time we agreed that brother kemp should telegraph and brother Chri write to you at once while I 1 WP was to telegraph a ph home the telegrams were sent but bat owing to the excitement which naturally attended us after twenty tw mouths months of imprisonment our du duties I 1 in regard to whitin were owr looKed feeling under obligations tib cloote I 1 ta you aa ana knowin knowing 1 01 full well the anxiety and wr in terest of our brethren arid d sisters t could not feel justified in fia lodger delay delak and am writing while the cars aro are traveling it is not nay my purpose to go 0 o into details ap a the brethren intend on arriving bame to write you in lull full I 1 am aa pleased toay that I 1 WE ARE ABE well 1 inbody in body and feeling well in spirits I 1 can truthfully say the lord has borne us up through many a dark and dreary hour we nad cad ho hower homeer weer many things to encourage us such as visits of friends the NEWS and juvenile tor not forgetting the kind treatment of the officers ciers who frequently manifested bested a desire to favor us all of which assisted us to pass g tile the lonely W ile and silent days and nights much more agreeably than we could otherwise have bave done and helped to reconcile us to our lot yet vt it was a prison and I 1 will leave you to imagine the necessary strictness after I 1 tell N you ou that from aw to male and female convicts are controlled and their labors directed by about 25 off officers leers STRANGE INDEED ARE MY FEELINGS over vis this great change but a few hours ago I 1 was war in thi the eyes of the law a criminal subjected to indignities that would cause sorrow in the beart be it ever so dull of comprehension and who can imagine the cufferi suffering ds and poignant grief of that heart whose who te is as acute as the apple a of the eye oft have I 1 cast my eyes around upon my fellow tellow prisoners and asked myself would I 1 exchange places with such a one who goes out today to day another tomor to mor row and so on no no ten thousand times no NOT ONE OKE OF THEM I 1 their aim is this world and the end is death mine reaches within the vale the end is life eternal will I 1 shrink or ortall fall in the performance of the part allotted me when I 1 know now that god is mindful of all my wants even at the very moment when it seemed as though the ff eavens were brass over my bead and the earth iron under my feet he has supplied my deficiency and strengthened me to press onward I 1 can truthfully truth lully say say in behalf of my brethren Br ethreD an ai also alsa myself mf self that in many respects ibur t our minds have been enlightened in a manner toey tiley never were before in regard to the principles of life and salvation and anile I 1 know out dut what I 1 may do tomorrow to morrow yet today my greatest desire is to retain in me memory fiory what ilia ve passed through I 1 know that it will verve serve tto ko make me for I 1 know I 1 have not at f all times been as humble as I 1 ought to have been and I 1 have reason to speak in praise of the brethren with tee ine who have even manifested a courageous spirit and whose greatest desire is to do good they also join with me in gratitude tor for the many kindnesses shown us by our brethren and bisters es especially the letters and we would ast ask them not to forget those of our brethren whom we let in detroit and also to remember those thos in the utah penitentiary i your brother I 1 AMNON M TENNEY |
