The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-27
The Official History of Salt
Lake City.-SeeOnd Part.

The second part Of TuIiidge's his
tory of Salt Lake City commence
with a brief review of the incident
attendant upon the settlement o.
Carson Valley by colonists from
Salt Lake in 1854 ).
1t proceeds thsn with an accom-
Of the great famine in 1855, and pre-,
sents q graphic pic ure of those
perilous and s0ul>trying times @
which the latter immigrants know
nothing by experience. The hand.
cart companies aid their terrible
sufferiDgs while journeying to Sal
Lake, are the next subjects treated
MIR. JOIN Chislett's narrative from
"The Rocky Mountain Saints,' de.
failing the terrors of the journey
and of the brave and generous con-
duct of the men who went to the
rescue, has been introduced to il
Iustrate tn seem which, whether
recorded or not, will never be for.
gotten by the people who directly
took part in ths his foric passeg
over the great plains, in that incle-
ment season. Many OF the rough
untutoI ed boys of Utah then maze
8 name for heroism of which theil
posierity will long speak with jus!
pride. a brief sketch of the life
and doings Of Jedediah M Grant
the first Mayor Of Salt Lake City.
comes next in ordsr.
Following comes the period oil
the Utah war. This narration com.
mences with the circular orders Of
General Winfield Scott, ON May %,
1857, from the headquarters Of the
army. The command of The expedi-
ton, being first gwen to Brig Gen.
W. S. Harne, was after wards trans
ferred to Colonel Albert Sidney
Johnson. The document defining
the course to be pursued by the ex-
petition, under date Of June goth,
1857, and signed George w. Lay,
lieutenant-cOlonel, aid de camp,
comes next. The author also gives
place to the letter Of w. M. f.
Magraw, the mail contractor, in
which he addresses the President
of the nation regarding the con
dition Of affairs in Utah, from
Independence, Missouri, October
Sd, 1856. Magraw therein assures
the President that, "There is no dis
gaising the fact, that there is left no
Vestige of law and order, no protec-
ton for life or property; the civil
laws Of the Territory are overshad-
owed and neutralized by a so-called
ecclesiastical organization, as de-
spotic, dangerous and damnable as
has ever been known to exist in any
country, and which Is running not
only those who do not subscribe to
their religious code, but is driving
the more moderate and orderly of
the Mormon community to despera.
tion." 81 have no
doubt that the time is near at hand,
and the elements rapidly combining
to bring about a state of affairs
which will result in indiscriminate
bloodshed, robbery and rapine, and
which in a brief space of time will
reduce that country to the condition
of bowling wilderness" n
''Many Of the inhabitants of the
Territory possess passions and ele.
ments of character calculated
to drive them to extremes,
and have the ability to conceive
and have the courage to carry out
the boldest measures for redress,
and 1 know that they will be at no
loss for a leader. When such as
these are driven by their wrongs to
vindicate, not only their rights as
citizens, but their pride of man
hood, the question of disparity in
numerical force is not considered
among their difficulties, and [ am
satisfied that recital Of their griev.
Rnces would form an apology, ifnot
sufficient justification, for the viola.
ton on their part of the usages OF
civilized communities" 81 have
felt free to thus address you, from
the fact that some slight requests
made of me when I last left WASH
ingtOn, on the subject Of tho affairs
OF Kansas, justified me Ia believing
that you had confidence in my in
and that what influence
could exert would not be- wanting
to terminate the unfortunate diffi>
culties in that Territory; 1 have the
pleasure Of assuring you that my
efforts were not spared"
Passing on, we come to the docu
from the encouragement,
Jere s. Black, who on the oath of
February, 1858, transmits to the
House Of Representatives, q letter
from Judge W. W. Drummond, le-
ferring to the resignation Of the lat
Ter from the Office of justice, as,
signing as reasons the most terrible
charges against the Mormon people.
Accompanying this, Is the affidavit
Of Curtis E. Bolton, deputy clerk
supreme court for Utah, denying
The allegations.
Document follows document, I'M
III the whole period is graphically
reproduced to the mind of the
reader, who will here find food for
thought, in the presentation OF
plain, unvarnished facts, explain
atory Of the somewhat anomalous
position occupied by the people of
Salt Lake and Utah. It wosld be
to give an idea of the