Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-13

unfortunate father IN reSculng the Children AVH sAe
destruction that awaited them.
But her plans of operations were deep laid and
well matured in Mormon council, both IN Salt Lake
City and in st. Louis. And speak advlsediy wnen
saw it, for have the best evidence OF the TACT,
that the Mormon leaders, and then in the city,
were busi!y engaged in aiding and abetting those
parties in their nefarious work. And although the
most digent search was made in every direction,
we were unable 10 ascertain with any degree OF GER
tanty the whereabouts of the woman and children
until the 9th of March, when We received informa'
ton of their being in Houston, Texas Mr.. Mclean,
the father of the children, had arrived in this city
few days previously. Pratt was then here, buton
being informed of McLean's arrival ne concealed
himself warrant was obtained for him; and dill
:gent search made; but with the aid OF MS 'eho"'
apostles, he succeeded in making his escape :.
Mclean proceeded at once to Texas, but on MS
arrival there found that they had been gene some
three weeks; but fortunately he obtained list ofthe
fictitious names which she BORE and found letter
from Pratt Of which herewith furnish copy, d.
rected to her as Mrs. Lucy K. Parker
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 8, 1857.
DEAR MADAM: 1 am well, except colds. have
lust received yours of Feb. Is. Your correspon-
dence with Mrs Holiness of New Orleans, has prob
ably betrayed you before this as the Post Office Will
be watched, and your handwriting known. If you
and yours safe when this reaches you, cease cor
responding with N. o. Fly instantly from your pre-
sent vicinity, Northward Clea, up your track be-
hind you do not look back or write back, or know
any person back, neither in Houston nor elsewhere
Take stage or private conveyance, or any way you
can get to the Northward in safety and with speed
l shall direct no more letters to you at Houston My
next letter will be addressed to you at Fort Gibson,
GU the Arkansas River, Cherokee Nation, Indian
Territory Marvel not if am at the same place
myself before you get there. If not you can stop
there until come you hear from me. My name
is Mr. P. Parker. or if it cannot be otherwise, the
next name can be added You need not be a Nor
mon or bound for Utah, nor need any body know
your business. You will only have to stay in Fort
Gibson week two, and can hire your board or
earn it, as the may be. Only be reconcled
If Brother Grinnel or Brother Moody, the Elders
in Texas, wish to assist you let it be in money or
! in ready and speedy conveyance, or in boy and
| carriage, some means another to get to Fort
! Gibson, Arkansas River.
! NV carriage will await you there, if the Lord will.
! As to your clothing from New Orleans. have not
the most distant idea your fathe, will send you one
! rag But if he should, it is mere chance if Board
man ever hears from it !; there may be fifty Board
mans in the City. 1t is pity you did not give some
certain address, such, as Brother E. Snow, Box No.
$685. 1t will not do however, for you to write (back)
to your father, because the post mark will put him
on the Texas track. YOU can, however. write to
your father and request him to forward them to f.
Snow basement of Church, corner of Fourth-street
and Washington avenue, St. Louis, Mo- Date said
letter 10 St Louis, No. and endorse it TO +. Snow,
| and he can mail it here to the old gentleman. You
can indorse in separate note to Brother Snow his
! address, and a request to forward to him, in
| your father has forwarded them to some house in
St. Louis, you ask him to send letter to E.
| Snow, Box No. 333, St. Louis, Mo-, containing an
| order and directions to get them
| Brother Snow can then forward them to you this
season. Do not make any effort to get your clothes
unless you think there is some reason to hope they
would be sent, because it will be giving them too
much of clue to your relationship, &c. &c.
l think shall not start from here for Fort Glib
| till hear from YOU say the LIST of April.
Mrs. Sayers is we'll. She has sent the 500. l
paid it to Mr.. E.
My money prospects are as usual. Debt due in
St. Louis, S3l. Dick and Betsy are we'll and have
| mnistered we'll
| Latest news from home, Dec. f. Our folks all well.
Agatha sends her love to you. All the family united
and full of the spirit of the reformation Nothing
else thought of in Utah. All the trains in: much
! suffering among the II. Carts.
| Prest j. N. Grant died very suddenly on the
last day of November last 1t is heavy blow to
all. But he is gone to and is called a wider
and more useful field of labor
| Now cheer up, trust in God, seek his spirit, and
may he bless and preserve you and yours hcnceforth
| and forever; and may you be delivered from the
hand of the enemy and gathered home is my earnest
prayer and blessing in the lame Of Jesus Christ.
| Amen z.
| Should Providence order il so that you come to
the Mississippi, avoid landing in ST. Louis; land IN
some neighboring town. and write to E. Snow or
| to
The foregoing letter, together with other informa
ton received at Houston, afforded Mclean clue to
the whereabouts of the whole party. He started at
once for Fort Gibson, when, presenting his letters
he met with the warmeSt reception from the United
States officers and soldiers and from the entire COM
munity, and every possible assistance was rendered
him until he met the Mormon party and re captured
, his children. There being no law in that country
by which the arch fend could be brought to Justice
Mclean had only the alternative left him of being
exposed to his tormentings the remainder of his lfe
! or of administering justice to him in a summary
way. He chose the latter course and shot down the
distinguished po'ygamst, and departed with his
children to place them in security, when he will come
out before the world to receive whatever the conse-
quences of his act may be. Whether his action can
be justified upon Christian principles not, | do
not undertake to say, but il a be imagined
in which the taking of human life is usable, this
In my opinion, is one. Imagine an artiul polygamist
steatby nsinuating himself into the affections of
| the wife of an honorable and highminded man. in
| tuencing her to despise and abandon her own hus
band and friends, and smuggle off his goods to the
Mormon Church, and when their nefarious plans for
running off his innocent and beautiful children
discovered, and the heart broken father compelled
to part with them for their safety the villain takes
his wife and the mother of his babes to his own IL
centious embraces, thus breaking up and destroying
the happiness of family forever-(as he had done
In no less than four instances before) Infringing
row upon the gray hairs of parental affection.-And
not even content to stop there, but must come
the mountains, and by stealth rob the Injured hus
band and father of his last remaining jewels of aec
ton-to doom them to a life of infany and prostitu
ton! And tell me, where is the husband and father
with the heart and spirit of man, who would longer
forbear and suffer such tiend to live!
The public and the press of the public and the
country in which Mclean put end to the tormep-
tor of his life, unanimously sustained him in the act
correspondent, writing from the scene of action
says: I" No Jail could have held him in Arkansas
had he been arrested"