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Show HINCKLEY TALK yPCH0LME (Editor's note: Herewith is text of Bryant S. Hinckley's Brighton talk to Sons of Utah Pioneers encampment.) en-campment.) At Fort Laramie, 513 miles from Salt Lake City, Messrs. Abraham O. Smoot, Porter Rockwell, and Judson Stoddard concluded to make a forced drive to Salt Lake City with their news of the approaching approach-ing army, and accordingly they hitched up two span of their best animals to a small spring wagon, and left Fort Laramie on the evening of July 18th In five days they reached Salt Lake City, arriving arriv-ing on the evening of the 23rd of July, only to find Governor Brigham Young absent from the city. He, with a large party of citizens, had gone to the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon, there to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the entrance of the Pioneers into Salt Lake valley, on the 24th of July. The main encampment of the celebrants was formed at Silver Lake, where three spacious, "lumber-floored boweries" had been provided by a local lumbering lumber-ing company, whose sawmills Continued on Page 7 HINCKLEY Continued from page 1 were adjacent", and a large number num-ber of the encampment passed the evening of the 23rd "in joyous dance" "There were 2,587 persons in the company; with 464 carriages and wagons, 1,028 horses and mules and 332 oxen and cows, (we wonder won-der what Salt Lake water officials would say in as much as they forbade us bring: two horses and two oxen up here this week?) Captain Balloo's band, the Nauvoo brass band, the Springville brass band, the Ogden City brass band, and the Great Salt Lake City and Ogden City marshal bands, were in attendance; also the 1st Company Com-pany of light artillery, under the command of Adjutant General James Ferguson, a detachment of four platoons of life guards and onp nlatnnn nf tho lnnrprc under ly announced "war,' could kill the joy of that occasion, or in-terrup in-terrup the merriment. Songs by Messrs. Poulter, Dunbar, McAllister McAllis-ter and Maiben local celebrities, in the vocal art opened the evenings eve-nings excersies; "after which," says our chronicle, "dancing and general hilarity continued to a late hour. On the morning of the 25th the company began to vacate the ground by daybreak, every one apparently highly gratified with the privileges they had been so blessed in enjoying." Thus the news of the "Utah Expedition" Ex-pedition" reached Utah, and straightway activities began among the Latter-day Saints to resist the manifest injustice of this procedure on the part of the general government, govern-ment, againt a loyal, American community. (Editor's Note: All are said to have pledged to burn their homes and push on, if invaded, it was reported.) the command of Colonel R. T. Burton, Bur-ton, and one company of light infantry in-fantry under the command of Captain Cap-tain John W. Young." "The Stars and Stripes were unfurled un-furled on two of the highest peaks in sight of the camp, and on the tops of two of the tallest trees." "The different bands played at intervals in-tervals throughout the day, and greatly added to the zest of the varied sources of enjoyment." "About noon" Messers. Smoot, Stoddard and Rockwell, accompanied accompa-nied by Judge Elias Smith from Salt Lake City, rode in upon this scene of peace to disturb the peace and joyousness of the occasion. Their mesage was delivered quietly to President Young and his immediate counselors and associates. For the rest, the afternoons merriment and enjoyment went on as if no messengers mes-sengers from the east had arrived. ar-rived. "At about sunset the camp assembled for prayers, when President Pres-ident Wells made a few remarks in relation to the latest tidings from the states, upon the order of leaving the ground in the morning, morn-ing, and concluded with prayer." But not even the announcement of the "latest tidings from the states," though it reported the approach ap-proach of an army, and practical- |
