the face of the Earth. for all men who are acquanted with him & his
cause well know ^firmly Believ^ that He will be honored both in time & Eternity by
God Amighty & good men while such Delivered Liars as Judge
Damned ^men as Judge^ will be Dead & Damned ^&^ people both by Godmen
& Devils A man who whas a Desire in his heart to destroy
an innocnt people by lying outrageously against them as Drummond
has, should take a little more pains to cover his track than
He has Done, to cover his track in order to be believed in any
thing for He has lied so extensively upon almost evry thing that
He has attempted to touch concerning Governor Young & Utah affairs
that it is not ownly clearly manifest to himself but to evry
body els in any wise acquainted with the cercustances upon which
He writes that he not ownly intended to tell lies but to tell big
ones for as covering the ^as big ones as He was capable of manufacturing,^ Death of Governor & his party
or Sharon or Babbitt, their are many who know ther is not
a word of truth in any thing He says about it. Not a hudith
part as much truth as ther was in the Remarks of a Lady in this city after Reading his Letters Accusing the Governor Mrs Young &
the Mormons of M[u]r[er]ding those men & this his Letter to Mrs Governor when she Remarked that they need no man warant
the Life of Judge Drummond should He come agin to this
Territory. For if He came in the capacity of pendent Juror
or judge, the men might all be left out of the Questin.
& the first woman that He got within 5 feet off would scold
him to death with a Buket of boiling water for his impositon
upon Mrs Governors if for Nothing Els. Were it not a part that
many Rapid Editons & prints are Ready to publish any falsehood
against the mormons However barefacedfor the purpose of keeping
up an excitemt against them without any Desire to Publish
any good about them when A man would be considered out of
business in Utah & dealing with small potatoes & few in a
hill to Devote five minutes time & a sheet of paper in writing about
such a man as Judge Drummond were it not a proven fact
from what we have Read of late from the productions of the press
that many Rapid Editons & prints are Ready to publish any
falshood no matter how barefaced or how contemptable the scene
from whence it came if they can ownly keep up an excitement
the face of the Earth. for all men who are acquanted with him & his
cause firmly Believ that He will be honored both in time & Eternity by
God Amighty & good men while such
Damned men as Judge will be Dead & Damned & people both by Godmen
& Devils A man whohas a Desire in his heart to destroy
an innocnt people by lying outrageously against them as Drummond
has, should take a little more pains than
He has Done, to cover his track in order to be believed in any
thing He has lied so extensively upon almost evry thing that
He has attempted to touch concerning Governor Young & Utah affairs
that it is not ownly clearly manifest to himself but to evry
body els in any wise acquainted with the cercustances upon which
He writes that he not ownly intended to tell lies but to tell big
ones for as covering the as big ones as He was capable of manufacturing, Death of Governor & his party
or Sharon or Babbitt, their are many who know ther is not
a word of truth in any thing He says about it. Not a hudith
part as much truth as ther was in the Remarks of a Lady in this
city after Reading his Letters Accusing Governor Young &
the Mormons of Murerding those men & this his Letter to Mrs
Governor when she Remarked that they need no man warant
the Life of Judge Drummond should He come agin to this
Territory. For if He came in the capacity of pendent Juror
or judge, the men might all be left out of the Questin.
& the first woman that He got within 5 feet off would scold
him to death with a Buket of boiling water for his impositon
upon Mrs Governors if for Nothing Els. Were it not a part that
many Rapid Editons & prints are Ready to publish any falsehood
against the mormons However barefacedfor the purpose of keeping
up an excitemt against them without any Desire to Publish
any good about them when A man would be considered out of
business in Utah & dealing with small potatoes & few in a
hill to Devote five minutes time in writing about
such a man as Judge Drummond were it not a proven fact
from what we have Read of late from the productions of the press
that many Editons & prints are Ready to publish any
falshood no matter how barefaced or how contemptable the scene
from whence it came if they can ownly keep up an excitement
"Letter to the Editor of the Western Standard, 3 July 1857," p. 5, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 4, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/E87Y