Letter to Thomas Leiper Kane, 4 December 1849
Philadelphia
Col Kane
Dear Sir
I called Satudy & Mondy
at your Office to see you a few mom[en]ts I leave
this afternoon for New York. The subject I wished to
save a few words upon was this I have discovered of late
occasinally a threat made by the Editors of the various
Journals aganst the inhabitants of the State of Deserett
conveying an idea that they are vary Hostile to the Gover[n]ment
& that th[e]y take up & try men for being engaged in
the Missoure war or but I wish it to be disti[n]ctly
understood that all these things are composed & put forth
at this critical time for political effect in order to
preijudice the public mind & govnmet against us, d[u]ring this
session of congress supposing that the Citizens of Deseret are
at to great a distance to contradict Such any statemnt that
made may be made. and this is the ownly true light
in which such reports should be considered let them
eminate from whatever source they may for the Citizens
of Deseret have manifested their attachmet to the goverment &
Constitution of our Country by leaving their families
upon the prairie & going into the Mexican war at the
call of the preside Excutive of the Nation
Yours Truly
W Woodruff
