Middletown transcript., 1875-08-28
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THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
MASSACRE.

fore. On the part Of Saint and Gentle
there is mingling Of rage, fear. hopt
and rejoicing for the truths revealed
When this trial (the Mountain Meadows
Massacre) began, it was evident that the
Mormon witnesses had determined ste
make clean breast Of it, and that i
they did the result would be an unpar-
alleled sensation. | confess, with oil
mg,rssearch into the matter. ! never
knewsi it was half 90 bad, bloody and
horrible. Wewho have written histo-
ries Of Utah have been charged with
laying on the coloring pretty heavy, but
epr hlsckest colors do not begin te
equal the reality. Even Mrs. G. v.
Waike,s narration. written in 1866,
though plentifully spiced With horrors,
fslls short Of the reality; no wonan's
imagination Of crime could come up to
what those men were capsule Of doing.
Ard aet il be renenhered, teq, that
this story told in court is not . Gentle
story. or. as Brigham Young would
say, "A d-d Gentle lie.' The wit
nesses are Mormons. and most Of
them in good standing to-day. And it
is perfectly safe to say that with the
strong Mormon inAuenees surrounding
them, and the church notoriously exert
iBg all its power to suppress Is much
of the story as possible, less rather
than more than the truth has bsSn elic-
tied. = For two days there
we're Thousands Of ugly rumors here.
One Was that j, the jury acquitted Lees
ID the face Of such positive testimony.
the miners would hke and hang him
and part Of the jury in two hours after.
. Dus ssalsrnsash al ths fcth
thsFa dos " : gniysEsal dstsFminatiop
Of all the aaoplssan. his seeast that in
some way .or. ether. justice must be
done.
Well ~, this has had one, good effect.
any how. II has, I think, determined
49, -
~ Mernon'lssdefs T. lei Tie verdict
60 according to the evidence. Thelew-
yers for the defense evidently think 50.
George @. Bates, the senior counsel.
openly saya the eese II hopeless; that
no evidence they have will mitigate the
case, and that Lee is . doomed man.
Bishop. the attorney from Phoebe, was
utterly ppmanned On listening to the
seatinony il court. It made him sick
At heart. The strspgest man for the
defense Is the Hon. J. q. Sntherland,
formerly Of Saginaw, Michlgab. He
is small, soft-voiced. and unpretend-
ing man, seemingly more aJudge than
IN advocate; Che was . Judge in
Michigan. IS.
Meanwhile, fresh bits Of evidence
against Brigham Young come to light
every day. Lgive nov only what has
bsep swarpto il court, orcsn BE- proved
beyond controversy by4documentss or
good men: First. the records show
that ~ soon as Brigham received notice
that be was to be removed from the
Governorship hescompepeed threaten
ing al snigrants Who might pass
through the Territory. He sgain and
again threatened death to all spostates.
A dozen old sermons. publishsd BY the
Mormons themselves, contained extracts
Of this character. Il can be shown
that he sent George a. Smith south
ahead of them to forbid the people
everywhere TO sell them supplies. and
sns man il here nov who was s'cut
of" for selling them small cheese!
Instead Of their having trouble with
he Indians, it Is fully shown that the
Indians sold them corn after the Saints
had refused it. Then, when the smi-
grants had got we'll on their var south.
Brigham made hi1 famous proclamation
# martial lsw. eoneluding With this
passage:
And no person; shall be permitted to
pass or repass into or through Of from
be Territory without : permit from
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