this is the man that writes to swallow up Utah
& build a gallows to Hang the Governr & all his true
friends upon But by way of conditions concerning him I would
ask ^how^ what will the Hon Judge disperse of his two Mrs Drummonds Real living wives immorals as He is inspired with such Holy
Honor against the mormons for Having more than one wife
Or is that ^become^ admissible in the Christian world in this last
age of civilization & Refinement with all men inasmuch as they
are not mormons. We would like to be informed upon this poi[n]t
as we have been so long from the civilized world that we may be
ignorant upon some of the po[i]nts of improvement
This is one singular characteristic with all men who eithr go out
of Utah or go through it who are Enemies to this people & that
is they just barly escape with ther lives yes they do Really
escape with their lives & so many of them of ^them^ to, this is singular
whn we consider that the mormons are such a Desperate Blod
thirsty people as our Enemies would fain make world beleve
but would there characters report this & feel this way if they did
not really Believe that if Justice had ben done then
they never would have left utah with ther lives I think
not. But really has they not any body ben killed in
Utah. If there has not ^been^, I think the people are sadly to
blame for since the opening of the Gold milnes of Calafornia the
whole country from Calafornia to Oregon has been so rifled with
Murderers & Robers & thievs that the good Christian people of
Calafornia have found it necssary to shout & find there
scores & Hundreds without Judge or Jury acording to Law & no
one has called them in question for it as told the Govenor
resopnsible for it, & it would be strange if ther was not any
one in Utah that should get killed without Judge or Jury
but then I will acknowledge ther is a great Diffence for
the people in Utah are mostly mormon & they have a
mormon Governor & the Christins would of come [throh]
that a Mormon Governor be held Responsible for the
death of any man & evry crime committed in his territory
while any man would at once be comitted fo & that Justly to
ownly ben for the Insane Hospital who should make any such
this is the man that writes to swallow up Utah
& build a gallows to Hang the Governr & all his true
friends upon But by way of conditions concerning him I would
ask how will the Hon Judge disperse of his two Mrs Drummonds
immorals as He is inspired with such Holy
Honor against the mormons for Having more than one wife
Or is that become admissible in the Christian world in this last
age of civilization & Refinement with all men inasmuch as they
are not mormons. We would like to be informed upon this point
as we have been so long from the civilized world that we may be
ignorant upon some of the points of improvement
This is one singular characteristic with all men who eithr go out
of Utah or go through it who are Enemies to this people & that
is they just barly escape with ther lives yes they do Really
escape with their lives & so many of them of them to, this is singular
whn we consider that the mormons are such a Desperate Blod
thirsty people as our Enemies would fain make world beleve
but would there characters report this & feel this way if they did
not really Believe that if Justice had ben done then
they never would have left utah with ther lives I think
not. But really has they not any body ben killed in
Utah. If there has not , I think the people are sadly to
blame for since the opening of the Gold mines of Calafornia the
whole country from Calafornia to Oregon has been so rifled with
Murderers & Robers & thievs that the good Christian people of
Calafornia have found it necssary to shout & find there
scores & Hundreds without Judge or Jury acording to Law & no
one has called them in question for it as told the Govenor
resopnsible, & it would be strange if ther was not any
one in Utah that should get killed without Judge or Jury
but then I will acknowledge ther is a great Diffence for
the people in Utah are mostly mormon & they have a
mormon Governor & the Christins would of come throh
that a Mormon Governor be held Responsible for the
death of any man & evry crime committed in his territory
while any man would at once be comitted & that Justly to
ownly ben for the Insane Hospital who should make any such
"Letter to the Editor of the Western Standard, 3 July 1857," p. 9, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 4, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/MwmO