| Show THE SHAMEFUL FACTS REMAIN THE facts about the notorious bogus bishop west letter published in this nap er erand and in the herald have set the ao cc american gentlemen fairly wild again ina in a long and painful effort to explain away the villainy of its K invention ft and nd publication they resort C 5 to their usual abusive language and P miserable pettifogging style we care nothing for the rant and we will not be turned aside from the main question by any side issue their common 7 trick when ca cornered is to introduce 5 another matter of controversy to throw their opponent oft off his gu guard ard 4 and induce him to take up the extraneous q question deetion uee tion they resor resort t to this dodge dodee now but it will not answer the able time pose atto to keep to the question we will take up up the latest assertions about the bogus letter lette r we showed that it was one of the causes which led to the Ten tennessee newee massacre of elders and saints the tribune reiD replies lies 0 we do not dot believe that one of these papers capers ever reached tennessee at all our ie collection is ia that the mormons cormons who were killed in tennessee wore were killed a previous to the publication of the year ear faor that they were killed too because they had persuaded two or three mens wives to leave their husbands or some young girls to t leave 1 their homes io come to utah to have their souls saved the answer to that is the bogus letter headed A red bed hot Add address resell was published in the tribune march 1884 the butchery of the saints in tennessee took place august loth in the same year elder john H gibbs was selecting passi passages ages from the bible at a sunday meeting of the latter day saints at cane creek when the masked mob of assassins awing attacked the house he was shot down and killed A gun was leveled at elder henry thompson when elder W S berry seized the weapon and held it asi asinethe dethe aside the mob fired bred upon him as he held it and he rell fell dead to the floor martin condor son of the owner of the house was also murdered J B R hudson mr condors dor stepson steps cn ran up stairs and seized a gun to defend himself and the torn forn ily and was also slain the murder enthen athen fired a volley terribly wounding mrs condor mother of the two murdered young men and riddling the dead body of elder berry with bullets the evidence is positive and conclusive that copies of the salt bait lake tribune containing the red ked hot address were circulated actively in the neighborhood A baptist preacher named vandever of hohenwald lewis county tennessee took pains to circulate them elder gibbs who was afterwards killed as described presented to that preacher a refutation of the address but he paid no attention to it elder W H jones who was seized by the mob when on their way to the massacre but who made his escape and is still living had also sent by mail to vandever an exposure of the bogus letter but never heard beard that the preacher showed it to the people whom he had excited by the slanderous publication li the charge that the murdered elders were killed because they had persuaded wives to leave their husbands or young girls to leave their homes is without even the shadow of foundation but it is just what might be expected from the wretched creatures who apologize apologia e for the vile and atrocious publication icat kon which at least in part led to t this is iri inhuman human butchery not content with the tragic results oy of their evil work they seek to traduce the character of their victims whose lives were known to be without blemish and without reproach no matter what they may threaten or what they may print the facts will remain that the bogus address was published that it was used for the pur pose designed that governor murray took copies of it with him to the east leaving immediately after its publication and that the pretended apologies for 1 or its issuance were in effect repetitions of the slander all the dodging hither and thither and accusations about this that and the other will not affect these facts and if the lies told by the tribune Iri bune about these extraneous matters were tru the bogus red bed hot address remains as one of the most villainous attempts to fire the public mind with prejudice against the mormons cormons Mor mons that ever emanated from the infernal pit and found a fitting place in the collmus of the salt lake tribune |
