The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-24

High Council, both told me they saw
! Danes man. Eurers. James McGatfel
who was then a resident of Parowan, bu
through oppression has been forced +,
leave there, and is now a merchant il
Rahrsnsgul Valley, near Pioch, Nevada
knows these facts. About the last OF Au
gust, 1857, some ten days before thu
Mountain Meadow massacre, company
OF emigrants passed through Cedar City
Geo. A. s NTH, the first counsellor in the
church, and Brigham Young's right
hand man, came down from Salt Lake
City, preaching TO the different settle
ments, and at this time WAS in Washing.
ton county near where st George now
stands. He sent for me and l went tc
him and he asked me to take him tc
Cedar City by way of Fort Clara and the
Pinto settlements, as he must visit all the
settlements. We started on our way up
through the canyon and we saw herds
of Indians and he George A. Smith
remarked 70 me that these Indians, with
the advantage they had of rocks, could
use up large company of emigrants or
make it hot for them. Alter pausins :
for short time he said to me:
Brother Lee, what do you think the
brethren would do if company of emf
grants should ccme down through here
making threats? Don't you think they
would pitch into them2"
replied that they certainly would.
This seemed to please him, and he again
said to me:
"And YOU really think the brethren
would pitch into them?'
81 certainly DO" was my reply, "and
you had better instruct Col. Dame and
Hsight to attend to 1t that the emigrants
are permitted to pass, if you want them
to pass unmolested."
He then continued: 81 asked Isaac
(meaning Haight) the same qucs-
tion, and he answered me just as you do,
and l expected the boys would pitch
INTO them" again said to him shat he
had better say to Governor Young that
if he wanted the emigrant companies to
pass without molestation he must instruct
Colonel Dune or Major Haight to that
effect, for if they are not ordered other.
wise they would use them up, with the
help of the Indians. He told the peo-
pie not to sell their grain to the emf
grants nor to feed it TO their animals, as
they might expect a big fight next spring
with the United States. President
Young did not intend to !et the troops
into the territory. He said we are 60
ing to stand up for our rights, and will
no longer be imposed upon by our enc
mics, and want every man to be on hand
with his gun IN good order and his
powder dry, and instructed the people to
part with nothing that would sustain life.
From the first 10 the eleventh of Sep.
tember, 1857, messenger came to me
his name Was Sam Woodland told me
that President Isaac &. Haight
wanted me to be at Cedar City that
evening without fail. This was on Sat.
urday He told me that large company
of emigrants had gone South. l then
lived in Harmony, twenty miles south of
Cedar City. | obeyed the summons.
President Haight met me. 1t was near
sundown. We spent the night in an
open house on some blankets, where we
talked most all night. He told me that n
company Of emlgrants had passed
through some ten days before, threaten
ing the MormOns with destruction and
that one OF them had said he had helped
to kill old Joe Smith and his brother
Hiram; that other members of the COM
pany of emIgrants had helped drive the
Mormons out of Missouri; that others
had said they had come TO help John
sons army clear the Mormons out OF
Utah; that they had the halters ready to
hang old Brigham and Heber and would
have them strung up before the snow
blew: tha. one or two of the emigrants
called one of his oxen, pair of stays,
"Brignsm" and the other "lleber," ami
that some of the emigrants had used
all kinds of threats and profanity.
John NJ. Higbee, city marshal,
mad informed them that it was breach
of the city ordinance to use proiune
language, whereupOn one of them re-
piled that he did not care Il d-n 'o-
Mormon law, or the Mormons either;
that they had fought their way through
Indians and would do it through the ID
Mormons, and if their governor, old
Brigham, and his priests would not sell
them provisions, by Cd they would take
what they wanted any way, they cOu d
yet it; that thus raging one Of item let
loose his long whip and killed two
chickens and threw them into his wagon;
that the Widow Evans said, "Gentlemcn,
those are my chickens; please don't Kill
them; | am poor widow" that they
ordered her to shut up or they would
blow her id brains out, ect.; that they
had been raising. trouble with all the
settlements and Indians on their way;
that we were threatened on our north
by Johnson's army; that now our safety
depended on prompt and immediate ac-
tion; that company OF Indians had a.
ready gone south from Parowsn aud
Cedar City 70 surprise the emigrants VIC
were IA ut MouataIn Meadows and he
wantca ne 10 return iG the morning
(SundayJ and send Carl Schur;z, the
Indian interpreter, from my home,
TO rals" he Indians south at Harmony,
w aSnlGgt gtpn. ana SaNtc SIaFa, W yOiI t"'
indians from the north and make the
attack upou the emigrants at the Meadows
ssid to him, would il not be vel! tC
hold council of the brethern before
MAXIM a move" lie replied that
every Latter Day Saint that regarded
their covenants knew well their duty
and ths, the company OF cnigrart; bac
forfeited their live. by Their acts and that
Bishop z. X. Smith, khnger Smith
and Joel White had already gone By
way OF Pinto TO raise the lcdians in that
direction. and those that nad gone from
Parowan and here Will make the attack
and may be repui:ed. We cannot now
DELAY for the Council Of The brethren
Return Immediately and s:srt Car,
Schur;z Tel. him that | ordered you g
tell him 70 90, ard l waut you to Try
and get 10 him before the attack Is made
and make plan for tha Indians, ans
send Johnson, the Interpreter. 10 the
Meadows Us soon as be can ce go: Z
neip Carl Sehurtz manage the Indians
did Jus, arI was ordered. Tue In
dians from the north and about Hsrmo'
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