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Show States goyernment, since tte this move on the part of the United seems been had stopped from going to Utah. It United States mails its from the of the A learned of approach that the Church officials who saw the troops members, perhaps mail carriers going eastward, at· Independence, Missouri, then obtaindetails on the march, and perhaps seems it th81 got little Ln From "tight-lippedll soldiers on the way, their destination, or of formation---perhaps they didn't really know of matter came to the. Word of t.he real purpose of the Army "invasion". while they were. at Silver Lake Brigham Young and the Saints with him, the arrival of the Mor (Brighton) celebrating the lOth anniversaryof About 2,500 the future salt Lake City. mon pioneers at the site of of these the and the at vanguard called were first, of these troops been as marched from Fort Leavenworth in July, l857---said to have as any expedition in U. S work their for and proviSioned well equipped history Illinois they had Of course the Mormons were alarmed. In Missouri and and their their from the property of bayonet been driven at the point and the offieered and militia; of homes by mobs largely composed and and local both state'officials; too often apparently upheld by to Government the protect U.S. of the part th little if an7 effort on Mormon mass emigration their rights. As we have already pointed out, the court trials and impris false followed ,to Utah, covering many years , had could be expected What onment, rapine, murder and other indignities. President of the the that seems it now? In the'then present instance, conditions in to relati1le United States had been greatly misinformed the Utah Government, officials sent to by Utah by lying and corrupt '* which may seem to }a?! teen accepted with little if any investigation. own .• • . . . Although * President James Buchanan was a native of Pennsylvania, favoed slaver.y he was strongly pro-slaver.y, and may have openly on its w was the time the dispatched At A in the Kansas.troubles. was a "hot" issue in Gomgress; and way to Utah, the slavery question have thought that this "Flower of Some the Civil War was portending. was sent to Utah, at least Northerners the American mostly Army", it would be inavailable in case of hostilities breaking partly, between the North and the South. out suddenly so was gi vem: Harney , the commandant at Fort Leavenworth, into service; but he command of the "Army of Utah", when it was ordered his atten did not set out dth it---perhaps troubles in Kansas required the vanguard; and Colonel E. B. Alexander was sent forward with tion. the well within drainage of seems to have remained with it until it was Albert Sidney Here the the Green River. Army was overtaken by Colonel General. w. Johnston, a proud and haughty "rebels", regardless of Southerner, evidently regarded and Issouri in the Illinois, their ejection sufferings the,y had endured Mountains of the \-.J'est. the and into the wilderness of the Indian Country Said Elder John Taylor, some years later, speaking of the coming of of t1\e Army :-- ''We were well infl1ned as to the object of the coming Johnston, who evidently superseded Harney. the Mormons as , in all their camps and knew what was intended even beThere was s' continuous boast among the men and officers, fore t my left the Missouri Ri ver of what they intended to do with the The houses were picked out that certain persons were to in Mormons. 1A_e Army. We had men ·habit;farms, property, and women were to have another grand Mormon Gbnquest; wives and daughters vineyards, fields, to be distributed.ri** and were our We were houses, gardens, orchards, to be the spoils". |
