Show history OF r 0 4 0 fl IS i ll 11 for the iho an I 1 I 1 naohi Din li t oi i lint r A I 1 ill r 0 tin tilt artl rt f au u cf of c f Tents 0 o I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I to 1 Anoll irr lier of tile lip a siva hoen tow lolly lias mere haisl bonns I 1 m I 1 Is 4 HIP file nosi monitor aint or lerl 1 tile clotina I 1 of amt horrible co limp finif ill too loo goo aioo I 1 for site iii blood I 1 ro ket illis his I 1 I 1 subordinate Volo colonel siLl ining 1 alio object ol of viesca tn s to 1 arlia time 10 1111 lo ilni to la ce SALT L LAKE KL CITY sept 21 1371 1871 an lotter ta 0 boloham young SIR it if you irive ever ati ly by a direct negation gAlion ne that you viere mere not in some bottle way vay with and for the mas maa sacro tit at the alio mountain meadows I 1 nm am not aware of it that you yon have oil in nil indirect non committie soil soft of fashion seemed to duny deny such cespon ability is lit it is ii true however yuu you lottoe sala but cry little about it it wits it lul bull ess to break anil and the rat tiler it was kept out of reach of expression tiju be bc doles iii liis you haio certainly rested your hopes of at escaping tha ilia perils and possible 0 o conse ora criminal charge in tile matter by tile ill advised and binn kcal for pardon of Prel dent buchanan noil and therefore hoped the whole subject ir it could be kept quilt quiet die it ft natural death put I 1 think tir dr year attorneys will that bilile said pk birdon rolon included your operations lie in echo cablon on 01 the plains and elsewhere oahlee you were operating orating or against tile military forces brcci of ilia united states it dil did not inc lule a warfare against egi non belligerents ns as in ili lees expedition it dai not include the extermination of pen peaceable ceable families travel in ng upon tile public highway the massa ruing of those families was not an in net act of rebellion cb ulion for whish you wore were pardoned pir donol but a commission of 01 fur for which the prin civils awl are today to day liable to be luing hurt there tharo is one ilan which you have majc made ostensibly to your innocence but really in extenuation of your crime I 1 refer to life story of 3 our sending it ft special messenger to colonel dario the InasE acre there are borno sorno items connected will this matter to abich ali alt I 1 with to call your attention to begin ii dutli wit you never sent a special messenger tit at nil all after your troops had left cedar but you pro probably bailly did send it ft reply by ilia courier set sent t by colonel dame asting asking you turns some question connected with tile expedition against the tha einig emigrants what that bat reply was is not known lut but was supposed to bo be in ilia binig emigrants rants filler favor I 1 wish to ask you volly it vvan tint thit dania should tato take tile alie trouble and go to tile expense of expressing through to you tiny any nic sta saga a concerning ning a company of emigrants quietly pursuing their way and especially a message which evidently afeei bal fail and was intended to affect their lives and property what would be thought lit today to day if a courier from colonel ume darne should reach the iho of governor woods with n aini tin ilar nilar massago sago agi the tha question quei tiou then again at is aliat hat time did dame dispatch eliat courier was it at the time ilia emigrants lell left cedar or nt at tile hie beginning of the fight if tin former then lie hu had nine days before the massacre in which to I 1 nil an answer and depatch it to major lee if the latter tiler lie 1111 11 11 live arc days now tho ilia time necessary to start a message front from Parly imojan wan to salt like lako city and receive 1 a I reply to the same saine would require not to exceed sixty five hours and froni from parowan carowan to tile tho meadows four hours then thai supposing that lee immediately medin tely started a couder to duane at ilia com commencement men cement of the fight I 1 will ad adl 1 four hours more would have given twenty ahrea surplus hours in ill which ri a message from you would have tile llie lives and property properly of the Arkan Ar lanni bant lind lid it pleaded your excellency to tend send such in an order ut of mercy but then valiant lint re licau havo have wo we to suppose that colonel dimo waited until the fight had begun beevre lie bent his boiar ier on oil the evening preceding tile alio morning tho the troops left cedar there was it n of the troops in that town at M which iliadi damo wits was present find instructed ilia lie militia in general terms as to the object of tile eftin campaign anol as af to what hat they were expected too to accomplish after the troops had started dame returned tu to Paro radowan ra rowan and doubtless sent you word of the tact fact if this thie be so then lie he lad had nine instead or of live five days it in which to save that company and it is not to be forgotten that when ullen tho ilia troops left cedar dame knew the fate in store for the ilia rini emigrants grants as well veil as lie ile did nt fit any time cafter now sir one vt two things bilings is certain either cither the idea of exterminating that company 01 at radowan and Cedar ur cor at salt lako lake city and if at tho the latter pl pi ice ilion in your put but if leo had st started arbel that idea it would not have tact mil with the eater tion of colonel dante dain e who lie is one of the most timid ahmid of men and is known and acknowledged as ilia groa greatest teat cowadd in southern utah anti one of the deafest evidences that lee acee expedition was the result of your direct and specific toraei order consist in tho iho fact that iho militia was out and stall I 1 gulij 1 I 13 dabue but il if wo we draw so 0 o fur far upon our imagination us as to suppose that the lie proposition or of tile expedition vas nus damai it would net hivo met yilli title the lao Gerec til george A dietly of you and of couise it would have leen leini dropped then find and there ant and behildes betides be bei tides ldes that precious trio evere tuo too good and too loo well posted to darty daro to originate linto anything thin indro especially to n campaign ns as tho the ono one in contemplation I 1 or orn a little regi regimental montal officer to original a I 1 rullie measure or ad act would have haro been a presumption unknown lie in the lie annuls annals of ITtia ll they knew that your rule included everything civil and within iti lot a vigilant ligor ot oui notice and ilia a st strong r ong and un till Fp iring ann rite controlled public and pi hato fiction throughout the Teni tory dune diane I 1 IIii will leo would no mule moie ila have a dared to out u alio le ini militia litia and carry out to comp completion leLion the campaign that ald tile tho mountain headon ilion they would dira daro sever their limbs from their bodies then why acre the militia called ou out t tit lit all there is nil ugly rat fact t that thai comes lie in bere awre iere I 1 mean ibaan the iho mission ini ion of your aid dc cle earla commit george A lie ile lead traveled ahead of that company commanding the people W t sell them nothing and to lu buy bothin nothing m front from them and wai mai in office when ilia courier front from leo lee reached owan an buto what is aran and some alint tinges binges this thia courier story with willi romance is that your express and loes lees should enter dames office precisely nt at tile same rao rii omert ment yours youra forb forbidding idling tile tho inns massacre sacro and aces re potting to his colonel that eliat tile the job ju b was done upon tho ilia vi liole it is fair to doubt ill tint it you sen tent t any such message inessa to and if you did it voas ss one of your 3 our artful dodges cs to fili behun till ic responsibility knotting ito ing as aa oil JIMA hivo kaohi that the iho chances were a to ono onn that your mckeage would arrive too ahto ito to solve save the emigrants hero tha ilia inquiries come in ilow how was it that yot sent your message ot or mercy to dimo daino and not to lee and vili aby y should it have been Danie dimaglio who tent sent tile iho courier to you if lie a im not as the orthe regiment operating against tile iho emigrants the true answers to these questions would give to tile bhole movement its ita proper military look now comas coins tile the pith of tile tho whole matter it clearly understood and was wai doubtless the fact I 1 act that you oti had ad put the Territt ity under tender martial law keeping this fact in view tile tha following queries include the ilia whole matter alist in tho the culling calling out of that regiment did weisel danic dama act upon his hia own responsibility second id did ile he let act in ill pursuance of your order third did lie net act upon hn its order based upon somo settle general order of yours would such in such a case fou if ile ho had thill that bloody job doria dono without specific order from you would you not leave called liim jim and leo lee to un lin account fur for it of course you would you perhaps think thit argus i is a pressing matters pretty closely avid and I 1 nin that it ft possible future corli ten DIO und field tino live in its it sells not nol anilie T quent quei itly ly upon your guilty imagination my letters nrc are but thoughts long pent up but nox no finding linding mid and that tant expression findt it its justification in a clear and undoubted sense of duty duly I 1 have neither ambition nor de desiro to pio cuto or aid in fit the prosecution of anybody notwithstanding I 1 title im so well d so thoroughly convinced of your complicity in nt at the mountain meadows endows ind ani in ill all the blood murdo murders a that lime into been committed in utah that were I 1 I 1 iLls mould undoubtedly hang you and then alien slates slate prison ciery anointed mho hud had tried to swear you clear anil and eel ere as ahn laninga lanin gc is I 1 cin care su bucl ct hill I 1 find re spon siolo iio echoes in more than llian ono one mormon lormon breast in ili older to con consia consider r tile llie history of your administration in its truo true light and to hold your arts at their ati hiitt t value the iho mind igind disrobe you of ofilio tile re regal real ca al purple in which you seem scene to too bo ni rayed and displace from your brow that imagined dazzling tiara of divine authority for so long as the mind shall receive you as the monarch to rule rula tta the inspired seer to leads your voice will bo be tle tie ovice loice of god your the inspiration of heaven and your every counsel tand colinan commend 1 a am v may not it was your ambition so to tench and impious your people and their to such in us lis lie iho mann I 1 imlach conics comei front from homers it was this also an and wicked esti esli traffic in which you have leon been add that has compelled the acceptance as pure and true of daini dg ini chich make nu no eppell to ilia scruples of a wull violl conscience ull icci have no voice for the bicart no sympathies flir ilia soul it was the laith in ilia iho reality of the prophetic office and in tile iho inspiration of its acknowledged ed incumbent bibich enabled to flit tell blood atonement upon the canich as an in institution titu and to sanc sanctify sanctis lie in their estimation as the lie perfection of hoano lio linos S adens and practices tic A well tile moral find sense of chi has pronounced to lie ile cat chillily cail lily sensual and debili li it is m astonishing that in the uniti united d a aholo religious di de nomination nomina lion car be found tt to accept as divino divine truths your favorite do dogmas gnias luit tile the I 1 light lit enod 11 ind of tile almi almighty lity is red with human blood and tho the road hichi leads kadi the llie into tho presence of god and tho holy angels should have petticoats olits for guide flags wo we will ill get eci bravely over this by and by ahen the sober after thought shail come to diebel the illusion of your imaginary royalty und and sacral divinity then the e chow tile ilia reasoning tile utopia dream will tin and you will veil bo be to us simply us as a citizen of the united states state then mill we bo be able to measure your boils hy by the sanity same title rule and weigh your a actions lions in the sanio battle balance that we lie do othern other mont leals then sir will lie dark and bloody history of util to bonnoni ni as it st a it and hr bor chief priest Iri aitho imi has up so jnnny lannan flees upon tile altar of hit his tren anable ambition ind and unholy lust luit tile rout foul min hinderer derer that lio lie really is u anous |