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Show 183 arrived at 11 AM & put up at Stains. Roads lined with people."2 Such was the bitterness and utter contempt many of the Mormons held for the man they believed was a Missouri mobber. But the gesture of coming into the settlements without his bayonets could not escape the admiration of the people of the Territory, and slowly he began to gain their respect. Alfred Cumming was everywhere treated with courtesy, but at the same time with great apprehension. It was the army that was the real concern of the Mormons. No matter who sat in the governor's chair in Salt Lake, Brigham Young was the real governor of the people, and Salt Lake may soon become a ghost town, anyway. Cumming even admitted his impotence to Brigham Young on April 28: "I can do nothing without your influence," he told the prophet.J Cumming himself was no real threat, but bis influence with the army was cause for concern, and until the army was dealt with the exodus was to continue. The exodus was in full operation when the governor arrived, and continued so until mid-May when Salt Lake County and the settlements north had been evacuated into the south. In the meantime, the army was thirsting for blood. At Camp Scott, Colonel Kane and Governor Cumming were universally detested as traitors who had been duped by, or sold out to, the Mormons. Kane was thought to be a Mormon spy by many in the military. When Kane arrived in the army encampment he had consentrated his efforts on softening the governor's hard line on the Mormon issue. He knew the military authorities were too bitter to effect a compromise. In doing so Kane drove a wedge between the civil and military authorities. Camming was soon at odds with Johnston over the handling of the Mormons, and when the governor was finally persuaded to go to Salt Lake without an army escort, the military was furious. The letters of Captain Gove, of Johnston's command, are filled with hate and contempt for Kane and Cumming: "If Gov. C. has |