Brigham Young writes to several Indian chiefs: "We have been informed that you have determined to take up the war hatchet, and to kill the whites who are peaceably traveling across the country; . . . It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong. I have always been your friend and have endeavored to do you good, and you must abide my command."
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[Original Source: The Saints and the Union: Utah Territory during the Civil War, by E.B. Long, University of Illinois Press (1981), p.187] and extracted from Brigham Young Letter Books, LDS Church Archives.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to note that Brigham asks for the chiefs to obey him instead of the Territorial Governor. Brigham the usurper.