The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and ChildrenWaite, C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg)
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The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children
Waite, C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg)
Latter Day Saint churches; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
"Time will not permit me to elaborate the matter. I shall
barely sum up, and refer every member of this House, who may
have the least doubt about the guilt of the Mormons in this
massacre, and the other crimes to which I have alluded, to the
evidence published in the appendix hereto."
To the foregoing thrilling recital, I will only add:--The train
consisted of 40 wagons, 800 head of cattle, and about 60 horses and
mules. As near as can be ascertained, there were about 150 men and
women, besides many children. They passed through Salt Lake City, and
were there joined by some few Mormons, who were disaffected, and sought
to travel under their protection.
A revelation from Brigham Young, as Great Grand Archee, or God, was
despatched to President J. C. Haight, Bishop Higbee, and J. D. Lee,
commanding them to raise all the forces they could muster and trust,
follow those cursed gentiles (so read the revelation), attack them,
disguised as Indians, and with the arrows of the Almighty make a clean
sweep of them, and leave none to tell the tale; and if they needed any
assistance, they were commanded to hire the Indians as their allies,
promising them a share of the booty. They were to be neither slothful
nor negligent in their duty, and to be punctual in sending the teams
back to him before winter set in, for this was the mandate of Almighty
God.
On the following day a council of all the faithful was held at Cedar
City. Many attended from the neighboring settlements; the revelation was
read, and the destiny of the unsuspecting emigrants sealed. Plans were
suggested, discussed, and adopted, and the men designated to carry out
their hellish designs. Instructions were given for them to assemble at a
small spring, but a short distance to the left of the road leading into
the Meadows,--a number of intervening hills rendering it a fit place for
concealment. Here they painted and disguised themselves as Indians, and
when ready to commence operations, by a well-known Indian trail
proceeded to the Meadows.
For the benefit of those who may still be disposed to doubt the guilt of
Young and his Mormons in this transaction, the testimony is here
collated, and circumstances given, which go, not merely to implicate,
but to fasten conviction upon them, by "confirmations strong as proofs
from Holy Writ."
1. The evidence of Mormons themselves, engaged in the affair, as shown
by the statements of Judge Cradlebaugh and Deputy-Marshal Rodgers.
2. The statements of Indians in the neighborhood of the massacre: these
statements are shown, not only by Cradlebaugh and Rodgers, but by a
number of military officers, and by J. Forney, who was, in 1859,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory. To all these were
such statements freely and frequently made by the Indians.
3. The testimony of the children saved from the massacre.
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