The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-18
AFFAIRS I'M Utah.
Important Correspondence between
Rh.G Sherman and Brigham Young.
About the Murder OF Gentiles.

GEE'L SHERMAN TO BRIGHAM YOUNG.
ST. Louis, April 10, 1866.
To Brigham Young.
SIR: A telegram comes to me from
responsible officers that four men.
styled "Gentiles," have been muir
dered by Morm0ns, and that there is
apprehension of further danger from
this class. BY Gentiles I understand
American citizens not of your reli-
gi0us belief. | am bound to give pro-
lection to all citizens, regardless of
religious faith, and shall do so. These
murderers must be punished, and if
your people resort to measures OF IN
tlmidation, those must cease. All OF
cur people must haveAequal rights
within the limits of our National do
main. / know little or nothing of the
causes of local trouble In Utah, but
it is we'll for you to know that our
country is now full of tried and ex-
perienced soldiers, who would be
pleased at fair opportunity to avenge
any wrongs you may commit against
any VI our CiOiLCuS, CBCu III stifdbf e
mote region. | will soon have regu-
lar troops in Utah, and ON the road
leading there, when | hope we shall
receive reports on which to base accu-
rate opinions and / send you this
message, not as threat, but as a eau
ton. that a sensible man should heed.
w. I. SHERMAN,
Maj Gen'l Commanding Dept.
BRIGHAM YOUNG TO GEN. SHERMAN.
GREAT SALT LAKE Cry,
April IL, 1866.
Major General W. T. Sherman, st.
Louis, Mo-:
SIR-Your telegram of yesterday is
at hand, and. contents duly considered.
The reports that have reached you are
not reliable, satisfactory evidence OF
which / will telegraph you as soon as
the testimony Unreliable gentlemen,
not Mormons, can be had, say within
twenty-four hours. B. YOUNG.
GREAT SALT LAKE CRY,
Frers April II, 1866.
MdjOr General w. r. Sherman:
SIR am under many obligations
to you for your kindness in telegraph
ing me respecting reports which have
reached you from this place, as it at
fords me opportunity of stating facts.
As near as we can learn, there have
been kilograms sent from here to the
East which have not been reliable.
Your telegram gives us some idea OF
their purport. There have been NO
such assassinations as alluded to in
your dispatch. On March ~, q sol
der shot gentleman named Mayfield
and Mr.. Brassfeld came home and
seduced a Mormon's wife, and was
shot on the street by some unknown
person; but neither / nor the c0mmu-
nifty at large know any more about il
than an inhabitant of st. Louis. Citi-
gems who are not of our faith do not
suffer from intimidation here. In NO
other community could men pursue
the course many do here without ex-
periencing the vengeance of a vigi-
lance committee. The outrageous
ISLANDERS they have circulated against
us would have provoked such an out
break elsewhere.
There area few spectators here who
are anxious to make it appear that
American citizens lives are in danger
through religious fanaticism, hoping
thereby to have troops sent here tC
make money out of contracts. Gen
tiles lives are as safe here as Nor
mons and acts ofviolence occur more
rarely in this city than any other of it
size in any of the new States or Terri
tories. k#EH9 4fg4G
A mo on
MAN.
Major General Sherman:
SIR: We, the undersigned, resident
of Great Salt Lake City, and not mem
bers of the Norman Church, hav
read the above telegram of Mr.
Young, and freely certify that we full.
believe that citizens of every class
who simply attend to their legitimat
business, are as free from intimida
sion and as fully respected in thei
rights in this city as in any part of tn
United States:
w. Willard Smith, Lieutenant Colo
mel 18th U. S. ", commandin
Camp Douglas; Captain q. j. Ben
nett, G. 8. Vols. ~ s. Ranshaff
Co, merchants; Ellis & Bro, mer
chants; K. b. Kimball, merchant
Bodenburgh & Kahn, merchants
Walker Bros, merchants; E. L
Head, Superintendent Indian Al
fairs; Nounnan, Orr & Co, banl
6ers; j. Ell. Jones, merchant; j {
Hughes, representative of Hollads
& Halsey, Bankers; j. w. Calde
late Captain ~ G. Vols; M. {
Lewis, Assistant Adjutant Genera
U. S. Vols; Stebbins & Co., me
chants. w.
GEN. SHERMAN TO BRIGHAM YOUN
Brigham Young:
SIR-Yonr dispatch is received, az