The Genteel Gentile, Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857 - 1858

Genteel Gentile, page 044

I thought him to be." Milton D. Hammond Journal, 6 Ma; 1858, IDS Church Archive;,; Gove, Utah hx,u-diiioii, p. 145. See also Langley, To Utah toitli the Dragcca, pp. 118-19. 1 be hei "gentlem cws to Eli abeth v supported the gov as probably Jacob Fo n ey. >f tli grad Disti ally comt rbed th,it \of*Z a pe also like Cu ce policy ra he ing, h ad tirring up trouble for C ng to members of the Jucha g in camp b 7nar nlv n ll If to his ol neyGene'i the aclioi i friend al 1 eren SreTa'r ^of"sllte gcs to Washington iah S. Hlack in an e opposed to a pea lewis 'c to lus o attempt t ccabk sl d f'rie yet to you-if the express had gone, "I was at Fort Bridger this morng after I left you, & heard groups of officers talking in a loud & excited manner-Talking of the Governor's having compromised the honor of his country by his seeking peace on such terms as they chose to suppose he had." The "gentleman" said he had very little to say to any one, he was on his own business, & had already said very freely all he had to say on the matter, but that he wished you might know & be able to defend yourself by keeping the strictest record of your doings &l copies of all letters & papers you might write? "I would give any thing to see him for fifteen minutes & tell some things to him." "Will you write them & let me enclose them?" He declined. "Will you tell me. I will mention no names." He paused-"No-better not-Much that I virtually know, is only inferential. My end will be answered in coming here, if you warn him that I see reason to think a large party has arrayed itself against him & this procedure of his, & that he must be armed with defences against the misrepresentations, which take their rise chiefly, I believe in wounded pride. & some of which emanate from men he now, 1 have reason to believe, he esteems his friends. These defences will be chiefly in keeping the most careful & exact record of every thing which he is concerned in, & copies of even the smallest note he may write." He also said that he had heard letters giving these distorted views of your late course of procedure were preparing for Washington. He had also heard that Col. J was to send your letter to him (Col. J.) & a copy of the Col's reply to you to Washington by express immediately. He did not know there was anything in this, unfriendly to you, but he 44