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Show 528 WESTERN WILDS. his wish. " We must judge him by his own utterances and those of his nearest friends. But there are direct evidences. First : His sermon that if emi-grants tried to cross the Territory he would " turn the Indians loose on them." Second: His admitted knowledge of the affair soon after it occurred, and failure to denounce or seek to have the guilty pun-ished. Third : His complete silence thereon in his next report as In-dian Agent. Fourth : His persistent falsehood for fifteen years after-wards in denying that the whites had any thing to do with it. Fifth : His continued attempts to deceive all who made inquiry into the mat-ter, and a score of other facts already mentioned. Collateral to the main issue, there are other crimes of which Brigham was undoubtedly guilty. The public files show that the year after the massacre he wrote to Indian Commissioner Denver charging the crime upon the In-dians this in accordance with the arrangement made with the mur-derers, of which Lee speaks and that he actually charged the Govern-, ment for the material tq, ken from the murdered emigrants and given to the Indians! Here is a clear case of perjury, proved by docu-mentary evidence. And for this also, had an honest jury been found in Utah, he would have been indicted. Nor is this all. In 1864 a member of the Indian Committee visited Utah, and to him Brigham made complaint that the Mormons had not been paid for their ex-penses in the late Indian wars. The official gave as a reason that charges against them were on file in connection with Mountain Mead-ows. Then Brigham called high heaven to witness that the Saints had nothing to do with that massacre " it was all the work of Indians." As late as 1869, the Deseret Neirs, Brigham Young's official organ, con-tained an article, written by Apostle George Q. Cannon, later a Dele-gate in Congress from Utah, bitterly denying that any Mormon was engaged. Thus the Mormon authorities went on year after year swearing to lies and publishing lies about Mountain Meadows, when, according to all the evidence on the trial, they knew the facts then as well as we know them now ! What rational explanation can be given of such crookedness, except that they had some sort of guilty connection with the actual participants? I have but touched upon the mass of evidence. Brigham Young has many apologists in the East, but among them all I have heard no attempt at explanation of these things. There is one man to whose life- long friendship the Mormons are more indebted for the immunity they enjoy than to any other one agency. Colonel ( since General) Thomas L. Kane, a gentleman of high character, accompa/ nied them |