Salt Lake City, . Dear Brother Cannon. I have felt for a long time that I ought to write to you, and still I hardly felt that I had any news of importance to communicate, except what you get from the President's Office and the "News." But the same anxiety that formerly rested upon us concerning your labors while in Washington has not diminished since you went there this time. I listened with much interest this morning to the reading of your letter to President Taylor, concerning the plea of yourself, Brother Caine, and Judge Black before the House Judiciary committee and the uphill work Van Zile meets with in trying to carry out his hellish plan to rob the Saints of their civil and political rights. You and those associated with you in Washington still have the prayers of all Israel that dwells in these mountains for your success, and, which is better than all the rest, we know that God and the justified spirits made