Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-06-05

one, TO retain the confidence Of the
American people. The error of their
character is, they are too confiding
All that is necessary to ensure their
support is tho creation ofa beliefthat
the measures of their agents arc in
tended TO promote their benefit But
as you say, "hic labor hoe opus est."
w. H. HARRISON.
TThe above was set mp from the
original, in the handwriting Of Gen.
Harrison. Eds. Tel. W
ALETTER FROM JUDGE DRUMMoND
Sin: A valued friend Of mine has
just presented mo an extract of a
communication from FERRAMoRF
LITTLE, of Great Salt Lake City,
which made It's appearance in some
one of the New York papers In which
this high functionary of Mormonism
this, Elder Of the Latter Days, this
member of the nquorum" of the
seventies" this spiritual brother-in-
law Of Gov. BrnGHAM YOUNG. this
fool, agent and abetter in tho blaclSest
crimes that tho maligncnt heart of
man can conceive, has had the church
duty'to perform in denying the al
legations in my communications 70
Attorney General BLACK In the
first place he asserts that the books
and records were not destroyed. |
assert thatthey were, that Mr.. LITTLE
well knew IL at the time of that black
outrage, and that in his capacity Of
Elder he sat in judgment on certain
members of the church and cut them
off, for the reason that they expressed
q degree of dissatisfaction at that
high-handed outrage of the High
Priesthood Of fMormonism.
Again he asserts that at the time
that he left Salt Lake there were no
persons in the Penitentiary Of Utah
save three Indians, who were con-
victed in A.. ID. 1854. This | assert,
is gratuitous and anunmitigated false
hood, and well-known by Mr.. LITTLE;
and thatther were ut least four young
men in the Utah Penitentiary who
were tried and convicted before ELIAS
Smith, tho Probate Justice of Great
Salt Lake City and County, in March,
A. d. 1856, and severally sentenced
for fourteen, sixteen and eighteen
months; and that, too, without those
men having committed any criminal
act known to the law books save the
Mormon Priesthood, and that they
were in the Penitentiary when he
left Salt Lake City, and that he knew
the fact.
Again: assert that man by the
name of LEWIS was tried and con-
victed before GEORGE PEACOCK, Pro
bate Judge of Manti County, in De-
cember last, for assault and battery,
and put in the Penitentiary of Utah
for five years time, and that before
he was incarcerated in the prison that
be was castrated by Mormon mob,
all Of which Mr.. LITTLE well knew
and no doubt had an active hand in
this bloody outrage. a
Again, he asserts that he never
heard anything of the murder of the
dumb boy, Whitehouse, by the Eng
lish Doctor named BAKER. / assert
that Mr.. LITTLE's connection with
that band Of Church licensed pirates
and murderers well-known as Danites
or Destroying Angels, is tuch as to
keep him fully and promptly posted
in all the nefarious acts of the Church
and in this case in particular, that
newell knew that BAKER was tried
and should have been hung for one of
the most brutal murders ever commit
ted by the hand of man; that the Ju-
rors did find him guilty of murder in
the second degree, and that he, BA-
KER, was sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for ten years; was started to the
Penitentiary in care of Deputy Mar
shall ANsoN CALL, on Wednesday,
and was promptly pardoned by Gov.
YoUNG without ever seeing the in
side of the Penitentiary, before the
following Sunday; that Hosea Stout
and John Bair were the lawyers who
defended Baker, and that Joseph A
Kelting was the counsel for the
Government on the tral; that Lewis
Bronson, VIM. Stevens, Allen Russell,
George Catlin, John Cavier, Chas.
Williams, Chas. Price, Jeremiah Hatch
John Mangum, Warren Snow, VIM.
Holden and Orville Cox, were the
Jurors who tried the case.
Again, Mr.. Little asserts that the
murder of Col. Babbitt, on the Plains,
last Fall, allfancy, &c. Mr.. Editor
wish it was so; that Col. Babbitt was
a bad man, and murderer, no man
will deny, neither did / expext Mr..
Little and his numerous licensed
coadjutors in crime to acknowledge
that they had murdered Babbitt and
Sutherland, while on the way to the
peaceful valleys Of the mountains"
but, Sir, il is the base, and cruel
act, the manner in which it was done,
of which Icomplain. IfBabbitt was
worthy of death, let him be tried by
constitutional jury of his country,
and not by a self-constituted court,
known as the Melchisadec Priesthood,
or higher law off Church whose code
is stained with the theblood ofcount-
less scores. Babbitt had been in and
out of the Church, as occasion seem
ed to require, for nearly twenty years,
and at times, when under the influence
ofliquor, told many solemn truths on
the subject and design ofMormonism,
among which were the secret oaths
administered to the male members Of
the Church when taking their endow-
ment degrees, all of which are preg-
nant with reasonable designs; and
| for this overt act the poor unfortu-
nate fellow lost his life, in strict obe-
dience TO the absolute ldw offhe Church
all of which Mr.. Little well knew.
In connection with this communi-
cation send you anaflidavit made by
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