Show WHAT AN ANSWER ow ON S saturday day august 7 jtb th we treated upon the assertion made by william H dickson Dick sos in his campfire camp fire speech that brigham young could botand not and did not repress his exultation when the news of the assassination of president lincoln reached here we proved his statement untrue from an anti mormon justly proclaimed him a false accuser of the innocenta slanderer anda and a defamer defame of the dead an insane attempt at an answer came editorially through the salt lake tribune on sunday morning we herewith present it 66 A lady told the writer of this and she told cold a hundred other people the same thing that she with several other women and men were at work in the theatre preparing if we remember right for a performance when the news of the assassination came and the order was given to drape the theater in black A man whose given name we think was jacob was arranging the work when brigham young came in dancing on one foot and then on the other he said I 1 drape her jake drape her another enemy of ef our people is gone I 1 aud and the lord god still reig neth in israel this lady was known by all the old settlers and there is no doubt of her perfect truthfulness we defy the salt lake tribune to give the name of the lady or that of any one of the hundred people to whom the tribune writer claims she made the slanderous assertion who can f furnish it we defy district attorney william H district to give any evidence in support in of his statement which is an unmitigated and utterly inexcusable falsehood that could only emanate irom a heart pickled in depravity |