The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-31

anything sensational to tell, that is very
good. The writer then pretends to give
rapid sketch of the history of the church
through Missouri. He claims to have been
in Carthage Jail when JOSEPH and HYRUM
SMITH were assassinated, and thus describes
that event:
JOSEPH SMITH attempted to leap the window.
Two balls pierced him from the door, and one
entered his right breast from without. He fell
outward exclaiming: 20 LORD my GODr' He
alghted on his left side dead man. AT this
instant a cry was raised HE has leaped the
wlndow, and the mob on the stairs and in the
entry ran out. put my head out of the window
ana watched some seconds to see if there were
any signs of life in the loved Iexpected
TO be shot the next moment and went to the
door awaiting the onset. Butthe mob, terrified
at the result of its action, had retired.
Now, as it is well known that the only
men in the prison at the time of the assas-
sination above described were JOSEPH and
HYRUM SMITH, WILLARD RICHARDS and the
late President JOHN TAYLOR; and as both
Mr.. RICHARDS and President TAYLOR have
been dead for some years, it would be in
teresting to know who this other "Old
Mormon is who was present on that occa-
sion, and took SO heroic part.
The facts in the case are that this writer
for the american, be he who he may, is
shameless liar and theving fraud, who
lacks even the ingenuity to write his own
pretended account of these events. The
above description of the assassination of
JOSEPH SMITH was taken from the well
known description of that event by
W.T.
In JAIL" and this liar of the american
steals that account puts himself
IN MIR. RICHARDS place and repre-
sents himself as doing what Mr.. RICHARDS
did, trusting to the general ignorance of
the people in relation to Mormon history
for not being found out In like manner
he takes the late Colonel KANE's descrip-
ton of the deserted city of Nauvoo, to be
found in the gentleman's address before
the historical society of New York, like
wise his description of the encampment
about Council Bluffs, the call of the Nor
mon battalion and the subsequent start
across the plains. All this he appropriates
, as his own eXperlence-himself the hero.
, Having brought the Saints to Salt Lake
2 valley, he pretends to give an ascount of
, Utah's troubles with the general govern
| ment, and is either so profoundly ignorant
3 of the subject or utterly reckless in his
statements that he makes the occasion of
f Colonel STEPToE's advent into Salt Lake
the breaking out of what is known as the
: ~ tan War; when it is notorious the re-
I latlons between the colonel's command and
the Mormon people was most amicable
/ Turning from history we have this precious
writer dealing with doctrine-of course
with that favorite, though threadbare one
! blood atonement.
+ The doctrine did not spring from native cru
2 city; 1t became as much part of our duty as
plural marriages 1t is part of our dnty still;
and if the United States troops attacked US, or
, If there were Gentle uprising in Salt Lake
l city, we should take such reprisals as would
make the whole world thrill with horror You
: know that am not talking lightly. We have
3 done these deeds before and we shall do them
3 again.
: In proof that 1--WE have done these deeds
t before, and we shall do them again" he
! approvlngly quotes the Mountain Meadow
t Massa ere, which he relates with the relish
/ OF a fiend gloating over the disgusting de
: tails of a soul-sickening crime. 1t is need
t less to say that he attributes the horrible
: murder to the Mormon church.
Before dying, LEE furnished ar exact list of
! those Mormons who had partnership in the
0 massacre. Some OF them are alive to-day.
q They nod to me Familiarity on the streets of
! Salt Lake CITY, and 1 nod back to them. The
a United States government knows who they are
. and what they have done, and vet it has never
dared to arrest them or interfere with them.
hnr-a I
g mon church is stronger than the United States?
l Leaving reluctantly this dreadful and in
Il discriminate ma acre of men, women and
children, this sweet morsel that has been
to writers Of his class the climax in their
5 descriptions of alleged Mormon horrors,
. this precious writer of lies new and old
e comes again to the matter of fighting the
; United States:
= II we were forced to fight the Unit I'd States
9 we could rely on trength OF $4,000 males and
=. admirable strategic position, and the help OF
b! 20CO0 picked warriors from the surrounding
! Indian tribes. do no. say that we entertain
x the idea of fighting, but have relate some
i thing of our history to show that we should not
be AFRAID to defend our rel gion.
The sword of LABAN is lying quietly in its
sheath. Woe, say /, woe to the man or to the
government VIII Oh draws it,
Here the mendacious scoundrel pauses
, for the time for breath. Had he been con-
tent to lie simply about the Mormon eople
. as thousands of his class have done before
u him, the trash which he revamps would
{ not be worthy of notice But to the
crime of SANDER and calumny of an limo
cent people, he adds the damning villainy
of making it appear that what he utters
represents the Mormon position. 1t was
reserved for the publishers of the American
to lend themselves to this vilest of all
schemes for the misrepresentation of an
= unoffending community, and lead astray
tens of thousands in relation to the affairs
of Utah. Nay, more than that, they must
= have plotted the entire scheme with the
deliberate intention of working mischief to
the Mormons. He'll yawns for such writers
= and such publishers, and earth pains to be
! delivered of them. Meantime, would that
l gracious heaven put whip of scorpions in
every honest hand to lash the rascals
= naked through the world. Ii in the lowest
, depths there is a lower deep still opening
wide to receive earth's vilest sons; if
among the bubbiing cauldrons of sectarian
smoking hell there is one hotter than an
other, these publishers and writers, thrice
damned in falsehood, calumny and SANDER,
: will find their way to it.
t THE COMMON CAUSE