Show I 1 1 PIONEER N EER DAY in all alio list holidays of ay s there r Ts is not one around which to ti the t t people of utah cluster so many 4 tra tragic ca ic and nd tender memories es at as july ath 2 th the anovers ary of the ar entrance rance of the pioneers into tile 4 S salt aw lake valley the event thea alth daty of july 1847 were but the climax of the most benr ible journey ever undertake uby men women I 1 and children history furnishes urnis fies no parallel to the eo exodus d us f from ra m nauvoo 0 f the mormon p people copie and their flight from the out posts of civilization 4 to the rally rg n poin point t on th the e missouri Mis river band and pie he subsequent journey in ill to and across the wilderness un trodden except by great herds of buffalo elk ech deer arid and antelope and aana by the bai hardly less wild and anore n ore savage tildian indians s owin owing to the prevalence of mob rules in ui y v missouri i and illinois and reli bellg n ous 0 US in intolerance fid and a catered hat ered they were co compelled n p e ailed to either Z 15 5 f i f forsake C 0 r alce th their e i rr religion e I 1 i i 0 n S submit u ta ni to extermination or lea flee f for fir I 1 seel seeing that thethis athis th his people voula 1101 be permit permuted ed to remain in in peace able possession of their aiom homes es 1 in the state of illinois joseph i smith S sometime before his as I 1 sassi nation by the mob militia at afe cartage had planned the exodus to beyond the rackey mountains mountain which plan was successfully carried out by his successor brigham young who is is reported having said on his arrival with the pioneers in i n the t h e salt lake la fj e vail valley 0 y july 1847 this is the place and pointing to the place where the temple now stands said iero here we will build a temple to our god in refer in ing to the ehe enemies inies f from whom thoy they had fled lie he said if they will lot let lm me alone here for ten years I 1 will ask ash no odds of them under the administration of president fillmore P dillmo illmo re the pioneers were given criven a ter if organization with brigham ham young as its first governor and he was wag ser serving ving his second term m in ill that office and with many of the people of salt sait lake was celebrating tile the gentl anniversary of the entrance of tile pioneers pione rs when word came e a an e i 4 i that a ahardy i n a amy was coming com 1 to A t utah on coba plant 0 drummond drummonds Drum monda federal officer t r this judg judge n 0 drummonds was onu ono 0 of uilia enemies homles no lewic a wicked detilla atud immoral fellow who earned to washington i hnz av to n titles tales since have been p proved r 6 ve d wholly false and 1 conceived d in malic ibal c one 6 was i T i 1 1 f 0 that the mormons cormons had a killed 0 e r d m e ii t 0 officials aft ci a I 1 66 0 n survey i duty here these officials them I 1 selves sue lucli i as survia survived P d the ones 0 nos to ta geive the 1 lio lieto to t this i tale and tell of ta their i r hospitable 4 I 1 t i i i reception by the mormons cormons Mor mons and fc hat hei r I 1 aig 01 us en counted coun 0 n tei with a band of india indi dais ns another was tha that gOVern government court re res S cords coyd shad had beep burned goyer nor cummings C um min M gs investigating t with less bias imme dietly on his arrival reported every record i i in its place e 1 L f i 7 report t of ache aremys was brought by porter rock well and anca 0 0 sm moot oot who had jijine 9 1 5 13 miles from rth lar amae with 1 Q the I 1 e ne news ws in five d days ays and t thre ahree hours they learned it from r 0 m army con contractors tractors preparing sup suj plies to equip the army and all alf t this his wa was s months in advance e of the formal orders from the way war dean department rement the fact that tha t army con contractors brac tors kne knew w of it in advance and a nd that W dons consumed umed 8 in wealth 9 live ave if clater the bhe title of 1 dr As t the h e a army r th y b had abhi moved W westward ast bri briham brigham ham young had put the militia mili titi in the field after ever every mormon had by uplifted hand ai agreed reed to destroy every i vestie 0 of civilization in utah if 1 1 I 1 the worst came to the worst captain van was with th the e 1 invading n V abing ading army he left it at ft leavenworth and can came e west alone with absolutely no companion warned by trappers rap pe rs traders t and army contractors to that he would be killed if lie he carne came to salt L lake lie he kept on and had a long along n talk with brigham T young what was said to him was conveyed to W washington bishing fairly and squarely and it had a large place in in shaping the con policy that successfully I 1 avoided a collision with the tro ps brigham youngs young words were very plain we are atre aware y they ran government has more troops tro Aind that if we wipe out theses those another year will see t them hem swarming over ou our 11 valley but bu fc when those broo p s fi nd ut atah h a r r hl e they will and I 1 a desert every house hoefs e will b be 6 burned to ao the ground every tree free cut down clown and every field laid 1 waste we will take to the mount mountains lins we are determined to resist to the d eath death the ed on trance of these troops int into 0 th the 1 valley you may as well tell me that you can malre make hell into a powder house as to tell no me that these soldiers can came here and abid not ard bring death and destruction to our people with them they will hold us helpless till a in mob 0 b can arrive and kill us as the carthage greys held us help helpless legs till the mob came that killed hilled our I 1 leader leade p in illinois 1 and all of this and m much adli m more ore was faithfully ully reported report i 1 to washington with h tion diony that the capt dap iain fain believed the cormons mormons meant iti 1 when a little later 52 59 government me t wal wa gons were att attacked 6 a aked and burned burzie df the fact that they meant it reit re it calved d a endorsement eil S ii k 0 t A X ki ife |