Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-04
u Justice is Slow but Sure"-The
Mountain Meadows Massacre.

1t is astonishing that with the every
day lessons against crime, men still
persist In outraping their better nature
and ignore the rights of their fellow
men. Every day, people are murdered
every Gay people are robbed of their
property by ineendiary fires, by theft,
by trickery and other crooked ways,
and every day terrible justice is
meted out tere aud there as the case
demands, to the workers in crooked
ways.
There is no escape from the penalties
against crime. Thousands of we'll
authenticated cases can be produced
that are as plain evidence as can be
found, that by some unseen power the
evil doer is brought to an end that cor
responds to bis work.
A recent, striking, aud world wide
known care Of retritutIon was the end
of the life of the fends who stole
Charlie Ross. Now again the whole
world is startled by the retributive
hand of justice reaching out to vindi-
cate truth, and ieteach that there can
be no concealment Of wrong, and that
workers in crime reach their level
sooner or later.
Eighteen years ago one hundred and
thir'y-four emigrants on their way to
California we're murdered by Mormons
in Utah, at Mountain Meadows. 1t
was made to appear by the Mormons
that Indians did the deed. 1t now ap
pears that whatever Indians participa-
ted in the massacre did SO through
Mormon influence Prominent men OF
the Mormon church have been arraigned
in court, in Utah, where justice will
doubtless be meted ont to them for
their murderous work. The case was
opened in court week before last. We
lay before cur readers a portion of the
evidence of a man named Philip X.
Smith. He testified last Friday a
week as follows:
The Meadows are fcrty-ive miles south
of Cedar City. on the California road was
at the massacre, in September, 1857; heard
of the emigrants coming; the people were
forbidden TO trade with them; / felt badly
about il saw a few of them at Cedar City
this was on Friday afterwards heard ru-
mors of trouble; on Sunday it was the GUS
tom to have meetings of the president and
council, this bishops and council and the
high council; | WAS bishop, the question
as to their destination came up for discus
sion; lIaight, Higbee, Morreil, Allen, Willis,
myself, and others, were there; some OF
the brethren opposed destruction; ! did;
Haight jumped up and broke up the meet
ing; | asked what would be the conse-
quences of such an act; llaisht then got
mad and said; 80 The Indians were TO de-
stroy them;" on Monday Higbee, Haisht,
White ana 1 met and discussed the same
sahict again; opposed their destruction;
Haight relented and told White and | to
go ahead and tell the people that the emf
grants should GO safely through; We did so,
on the road We met John ID. Lee and told
him where we were going, he replied that
he had something ~ say about that matter;
We passed the emigrants at Iron Springs
next morning; We passed them again as We
came back; they had twenty or thirty wag-
ons, and numbered altogether hundred
persons; when near home We met Ira Alien;
he said that the doom Of the emigranta was
sealed and that the die Vas cast for their