Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-12

is pity you did not give some certain
address. such for instance, as Brother f.
Snow. Box No. 338., Il will not do,
however. for you TO write back TO your
father, because the post-mark will put
him on the Texas track. on can, how
eyer.sRrite TO your father. and request
him to forward them 10 E. Snow, base
ment Of Church. corner Of Fourth-street
and Washington avenue. ST.. Louis. Mo.
Date said letter to 81. Louis, Mo-, and en-
dorse it to E. Snow, and he can mail it to
the old gentlemsns You can endorse in
q separate note to Brother Snow his ad-
dress. and request to forward to him,
or in case your father has forwarded
them ID some house in st. Louis, you can
ask him TO send a letter 10. 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 mako an eff.
fort 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 a clue to your relationship,
&c.
think 1 shall not start from here for
Fort Gibson. till hear from you. say the
21st of April. ~
Mrs. Sayers is we'll. She has sent the
500. Ipaid it to Mr.. E.
My money prospects are as usual
Debt due in ST: Louis, $l3l. Dick and
Betsy are we'll and have ministered WELL
Latest news from home, Dec. 4. Our
folks all we'll. Agatha sends her love to
you. All the family united and the full
spirit of the reformation" Nothing
else thought Of in Utah. All the
trains in much suffering among the H.
Carts. ~.
Prest. J. NJ. Grant died very suddenly
on the last day of November last. 1t is
heavy blow to all. But he is gone to
rest and is called to 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, henceforth and forever; and
may you be delivered from the hand Of
the enemy and gathered home, is my ear
nest prayer and blessing in the name of
Jesus Christ. Amen. 2.
! Should Province order it so that you
come to the Mississippi, avoid landing in
st. Louis !; land in some neighboring town,
and write to E. Snow or 10 me.
The foregoing letter. together with 9TH
er information received at Houston, af-
forded Mclean clue to the Whereabouts
of the whole party. He started at once
for Fort Gibson, when, en- presenting his
letters. he met with the warmest recep>
ton from the United States officers and
soldiers. and from the entire community,
and every possible assistance was render
ed him until he met the Mormon party
and re-captured his children. There be-
ing 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 life, or Of administering
justice to him in summary way. He
chose the latter course and shot down the
distinguished polygamist. and departed
with his children 10 place them in securi-
ty, when he will come out before the
world to receive whatever the consequent
ces of his act may be. Whether his &C
ton can be justified upon Christian prin-
ciples or not, do not undertake to say,
but il a case can be imagined in which
the taking Of human life is justi6able.
this, in my opinion, is one. Imagine au
artful polygamist steal!hily insinuating
himself into the affections of the wife OF
an honorable high minded man, inaueno.
ing her to despise and abandon her own
husband and friends, and smuggle off his
goods to the Mormon Church, and when
their nefarious plans for running off his
innocent and beautiful children were dis.
covered. and the heart broken father com
PEELED to part with them for their safety,
the william takes his wife and the mother
of his babes to his own licentious embra>
ces, thus breaking up and destroying the
happiness OF family forever-(ss he had
done in no less than four instances before
bringing sorrow upon the gray hairs Of
parental affection. And not even CONTEXT
to stop there, but must come over the
mountains, and by stealth rob the injured
husband and father Of his last remaining
Jewels OF afection-to doom them to a lie
OF infamy and prostitution And tell me.
where is the husband and father with the
heart and spirit Of man. who would lon
ger forbear and suffer such fend to live!
The public and press of the country in
which Mclean put an end to the tormen-
tor OF lis life, unanimously sustained him
in the act. A correspondent writing from
| the scene of action. says: mo Jail could
have held him in Arkansas, had he been
arrested"
have other instances of Mormon out
RACES equally revolving. which have been
perpetrated here in 81. Louis. and in 9th.
err places. which will give you in anoth-
er article.
G. G. WARD. City Missionary.