Show HISTORY OF 0 F MORMONISM avritte A ci for vo coan z I r broo mil and succinct of the iju a 0 terror in ia cli cl i i 7 1 u D 1 3 aro iroini 11 einmo to col collwell lnell hillur 4 allx mormon nor talk fil hilen liss liff mi i colne hp li splendid coil llly fiann laing tile tirl tn of vita h SALT LIKE CITY od oct 5 1871 an open letter lot lart 0 young SIR the and privations endured dured lif by the mormons cormons in ISIS nt at ri pie irali gah and indeed all along the load from aiom N to council Cauncil bluela i Iro bibly 1113 d in real anything of tile tho lind kind vv ev ir before experienced in tho the history of voluntary emigration alio labors incident to j traveling olar new and unbroken trends roads unwonted exposures to tile the elements denion ts and th makarias Mal arias of tho his country nna nn ail crit c rit supply of food told with dreadful rf of 1 upon young and alil old all and the ill road evald liae hati lia ha ti e boon been traced by the braes graes s by its side your headquarters had advanced ns as far us tho the illyff Il luff tho the main body of tile cuti anlon on ley lay in it a bel liless condition nt at folste was only at by tire ti it willing into the lio fettled parts of missouri arid iowa of of men to labor for food fen with this aid famine vins vaa in our rn idt bringing bri neing with it its cier accod p inking flagus deadly f fevers vcra and scurvy were slaying scores daily and to till 11 burnan appearance mormonism Mormon ibm had found it its 6 last resting tile suf firings frings and sorrows of cf thoice days con can never le be written neither can they be hilly fully comprehended except by him mho alio nil all things lings ti it II was wa juring during fiig this dark and dreadful period in mormon mon history that tho the intelligence re the baludi that the united states state had do de ca cd auar against mexico immediately tile way and the ilia means to save avo tile people occurred to you and besides it would enable you to use the general government in aiding you in part to emigration scheme you without delay I 1 mado made application to the war department tit nt Wa bathing thing ton tendering tend tring cring a battalion of troops to aid in ili tile invasion in of california coupled with the reque request sit that said bid troops tit at tho the close of their term of service should bo be discharged in that country that tion tir ws and doubtless is i on fic at tho the war office tu to this ibis arid what that is more you yon preserved a copy of that paper and in isa it vas N as unintentionally seen arid and T was its read by one aiho A ho bad ad employment in your office you had bad inadvertently inn 1 left your de desk dek k open the gov froment accepted 3 our fr proffer offer at once and the mornion mormon battalion was immediately raised and ni al soon as could be started upon its war mii mission cin you of course had arranged to draw the iho adra iccil money for tho troops anti and was wag acknowledged cd by the do de bailment pail ment as their financial a agent with this tooney money aou without delay loaded it i traci tara boat loat at st louis with clothing clot liing and medicines for tile cormons mormons Mor mons emch aich was delin delivered ered up tile hie missouri in due clue tue me and dittri distributed buted among tile the people B J tills means they were raved from ni all this is to your credit I 1 biot at N ih standing you got the lions share and ii bi limps your dit distributing agents agent were a of stealing in some instances your iun on at this time sad and in subsequent distri n i i ions unquestionably th people pc olo it woul la lairo nio me it a very great in md d to write of this ahn commendable notion 0 Brig barri youngs had not liis his vilo nature iud ind vaulting ambition utterly neutralized it mittiea anil nil turned its by malc mak mv it into gall tho the occasion afan of an nr at p fraud upon the people anh had bad for base intention the alie alienation of tile tho nal nfl ec ns ins of the cormons mormons ilor eions from their country I 1 nir tender of the battalion to tho the govern yr nt ill had been liecht a secret bioni the lie muri mori rip ra alo lo 10 would hardly lilt likic c forgiven you iou initiating a measure aich was to draw m them na lint little of strength they had 1 4 f ill and leave them exposed to indian raids 1 7 was probably luoin only to cleber C K anlin and V T 1 l lard I 1 lidi hards ards ly by whom it is also bigbea when han it is considered consid tred i w fairly and honorable the government lind had dealt with iab you in ibis tu aLter bow low read your picquet hotd been granted with alint m li patch the lackins had been forwarded to nu all 1 I hie it lind had sat kaied ed so 0 o many lives and arted so much of and how fully nn in unusual favor had been aci n accorded you in the discharge of the battalion in california then ihm a foreign state it wai wit to be supposed that you in the presence of i 0 congregation would give the govern it ct due credit fur for the tame and when you poke of it tit at till all it would be only in a its honor bonor but sir sir you not as a the man brigham young but ia it your public opacity capacity ai ao the thief chief ariett of tile tho mormon sect told us u that tho the government of the united states had bad concoct concocted cd a plan fur our extermination I 1 tho the plot was iras to demand troops from tha th I 1 mormons cormons to aid in the war against mexico in our present wretched and helpless condition wo we would refuse compliance and that refusal would be the governments government excuse for a mormon war such substantially was the falsehood fil chood told with such apparent sincerity inc finc crity erity and its credibility enforced with tech fuch earnest declamation that it deceived everybody it wan wag received ns as true trite it and ri d for y years ears ili fiade a d e a in na mg ing eull juit for public and private until it ll became arno so fully impre lecil upon tile the general igind that hint cormons mormons even of american birth and education to could aid look upon tile united states only as an enemy and the church whose cold blooded pd I 1 been to destroy dro 1 n wit with h tile the lago of tho the voll mord and lid exterminate the aiololo church from tile face of ill alie earth fregm idlers ille or 1 liw iw or humanity ibis out kageo is lie told ill the iho first place only ns as you coil tell ft A lie and for to pil 1 long in a linio limo nursed and kept alive by you lid more than hill any other i ming t to make tile itie people of atall hale ate the united states slates to re cancilo them to your vic monarchical projects and to create within thin them tile the hope that hint you might Inight succeed in the ui int oran of an independent government it is i a long time sinco since I 1 became convill convinced ced that yon wro altogether unscrupulous in your affia millions then it suited your purpose fo a to be but I 1 was amazed to find end thit you could tone conceive arid and publish such an all ex cx falsehood fals bood against your country there was in it a degree vi of bae bien bieness n or S hit do fles comparison the fiercest assaults upon you may the record of jeff davis and other oilier leaders of the lie tile lute rebellion and you will find nothing in llido hi history blat equals it in moral depravity and damnable meanness alio tit united states lad had never for ono one moment bacri bc cn derelict in duly to tile mormon people in ili tile I 1 lire ire of the chimich Chii Clita ich cb our preachers in ill the eci several cral states suir ered less leas crin criminal persecution se ly by hilly per cent thin did tile the first american pren chirs and after the hie jackson county troubles in llis 2116 four I 1 m lien we made mada fill an appeal to the courts jor for A redress of tile serious wrongs we had from the violence of mobs and petitioned titi titio ned ond tile government go for a military force to protect us ua during tile the trial of our causes president jackson bonded re at fl tonce once allord ing us ill nil all necessary protection and if we dill did not then and there tharo get tile remedy wo we sought for it was not tho the fault of tho the government ern erni ment nent it was WH because the courts and people of that state were prejudiced against us u and nd that prejudice was due more thin than anything else to mormon block blackheads blockheads heads who he could not told hold their tongues about tile tho negroes and missouri was as ft a slave state stale it is but the truth to tay say that in nil all the mormon morman troubles in in that state the government of abo united states ats as blameless unfortunately joseph had studied the tha bible to tho the neglect of the and to so in after years when allen tho the church had settled fettled in illinois lie he by revelation went to washington and laid our grievances before prebi dent van buren mho replied that our causo cause was just but lie he could jo do rio nothing thing for us pt for that anther the almighty was to curse cune the whole united states joseph should have known that the mormon grievance at that time lime were purely judicial questions question sand and that that the government could only affa rd protection to tn the courtl court which it had already shown its readiness to to do and that president ident van burens answer was profir r and nd tight cut but I 1 ninny many in I 1 n the church lid did riot not view tho the matter in that hat light and were already feeling sore about it v lien hen joseph was killed and then ullen we anbo jerothe were the proper pirtie parties failed to make complaint against indi idu iJu ils cis concerned in hij ili death catli il bee tuse tile the m hole notion nation did riot not rise up till and punish those murderers you yon accused tile country of consenting to his death arid and declared that his blood wm required at tho ilia hands of tire abole american people bior these reasons it can call bo be readily under understood tood that the murmon mind was in a good condition to be impressed with tho the foul falsehood wo we have love been diac discussing it is riot not to bo be forgotten that at the breaking out of the mexican war the people of the states called upon to furnish soldier ol dior responded in overflowing numbers number and the government hall no occasion to call upon any chu ch for men man tha s halt story of the demand for llor nio troops was a filse falsehood bood concocted for the purpose of filling you in your monarchical designs by its tendency to farther alienate aliena 0 o the of cormons mormons from their country having disposed or of your meanest lie I 1 can not net close without a brief reference to your meanest one when governor cumming assumed the ilia duties of liis office tile story of the mountain Mea meadows lows was bet ct fresh in tim ilia minds or of the people met actors actor in hint scene had not yet begun to scatter through tho the Teni tory and worn were not act lost in the multitudes and the duty duly of the ilia chief chica mag magistrate filtrate gil in the nutter matter liall riot not yet lott its impressiveness by ilia modifying influences of time that massacre was uppermost in the mind of the iho new governor and ho he sought rought diligently to make its of his administration he Ile however soon found that you yoa were still tile the real governor that he wait waa about the most useless individual there was in the limi ind and that even the arrest of the murderers or of tire arkansas emigrants emigrant was out of his power still lie ho determined not to give it up and in his bis perplexity as to the best mode mod of pro coe dorit he consulted IlAr argus gui 11 I 1 tall him that any one of those men could be ar but the force that could succeed in mak making ing the arrest would be insufficient to lie hold ILI him BE As the populace would woul d undoubtedly como come to the rescue and perhaps per hips make it warm floethe for the officers officer I 1 told libin there was but one way in which those men could be arrested and brought to trial and that was through your orders executed by mormon of ficen I 1 advised him to go to you and get you to pledge your word that you would have bare iam damo IIa ight leo lee and smith arrested und and delivered into the proper custody and assured him that if you 0 garo your word it would be done I 1 have thought of that many times since and wondered how it was wa possible for me to have been so 0 o algretia Alg green but I 1 conten that I 1 did think that hat if brigham young ifould pledge hill hi word urd to a high public to do a certain faill tiling thing lie ho arnould anould do it il fall air ilis his waited upon you at your office arid and I 1 had liis lie word that aleal you lid did so pro promise premiere him ile iio was content fully relying upon jour honor boner cut but as moli monellis this passed by any perceptible movement in unit that direction lie ile became uneasy lin earty and culled called upon you arid ami refreshed your memory upon the sul subject jeet you renewed our pro pron inise nille and ile ho left stilla nothing aas na ilone done ilia term or of rice was now drawing to it ft close apt no effort tt to redeem in your prom ire ile llamado malo you several calla col la you yet putting him OTT oil with excused liis his term expired and he M to acae utah before 0 o left lio lie called upon you and told you yon to 0 o your race anil lid in yur yow own office that tant you lind lid ely lied to and am linn him 3 you sir the corruption arid fa 1 or of gentile officials ficiala of is a fauorito fi fa iorito orito theme of yours yet I 1 do not belicia belie ll 11 there is in all officer in tile tho of tile A Americ service nn government so 0 o cor corrupt rapt so abandoned so wanting in scalf respect that would 6 so shamelessly falsify lii his word pl edgell its iia yours was pledged and so BO utterly lionor as you kopul dialed yourt yours you after made the iho flany ex cuso tint those men viloula houll not be tried before tt A gentile court in thia hubter fu c you diere ared the fact tatt except the erst six days of their session and by etue or of your jovn legislation in tire premises our superior courts were riot not gentilo gentile court sr in a proper sense beca uc in criminal mailers ni niters the ahoy could have no business riot not 1 by mormon giand juries find and could ili pass 9 sentence upon no maa not dot guilty lj by ft a mormon trial jury which litter latter could find except fur for offenses ollin offen res s ain stour our onn criminal act which itself was supposed to l to be based upon tile common law a n of the iad u idall of fill tile il acs since the days of moses hoses your sour arnodd find and went great pretot pc dut but sir ilia true reason why tile president of tile tho mormon lormon church shielded those mm men from arrest and trial can he be seen and understood at a glance ile ho did riot not fulfill his promise to governor cumming not because lie he was unable so to do but because he fared dared nol lot even with the juries tit nt hit his command and under his entire control by virtue or of the lire endowment oath ho he dared not talie take the rick of something leaking out during tho the trials that would reveal the dreadful secret that after all al he ic was the me murderous murde chief of thedoor the poor arkansas emigrants |