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Show £ 86 loyal federal representative with the Indians is shown In their treatment of Dr# Garland Hurt. Dr. Hurt after martial law was proclaimed by Young on Septeaber 15. 1857 # was the only gentile offioial left in Utah. Unwilling to apply to the Korson leader for a passport, Hurt waa on the point of leaving hie agency on the Spanish For* to Join the federal eaap on the Sweetwater » when he was warned by the Indians that a party of llormons were going to Kill Mia. Be wae assisted by friendly Indians in making a very thrilling escape ae he described it, con* eluding!- • I felt it a duty which I owe to the Utnhs to aeke a fair * nd candid explanation of these faotsj for I doubt if over « n agent of the government in the Indian service witnessed slsilar attaohaent for hi a person, or jaore loyalty to thoas laws snd regulations which have been instituted for their governnent » than haa been » anifeeted on this oc-colon." ,... If the whole federal policy had been as friendly to the Indiana f\ a was ' Or, Hurt, their devotion would been have/ r* t aerely for him as an individual but for all - y • Bouse Executive Documents, 35 Cong., 1 Sees., vol, 1, Doc* H , p. SOS ( 95W |
