The Shoreham,
Washington, D. C.,
July 11, 1894.

My dear Sir:

Having at last reached success in the passage through Congress of the bill
admitting Utah to Statehood, it is due to you to know something of the more important
details of the long and difficult contest. The victory which has been reached has come
only through the help of friends whose services can never be forgotten, and through a
patience and persistence of effort which I have never seen equalled. Indeed, in this
contest have been found nearly all the experiences of effort and resistance, of fidel-
ity as against conspiracy, of loyalty to friends as against temptation, and truly all
the experiences nearly that make up the struggles in human life and effort. Coming
into it at a comparatively late stage, and having passed through before many noted
contests, and not having the intense feeling of the struggle for home and independence
that you and your people have felt after so many long and weary years of waiting, I
have naturally been able to judge more impartially of the struggle, of the work of the
people who have figured in it, of the unworthiness of those who have failed in fidelity,
and of the debt of gratitude that all of you must forever owe to those who have stood
in the storm, and through the stress and trial of years overcoming every obstacle,
foiling every treachery, have brought you triumph at last. In my observation of your
people and my analysis of their character I should judge that they are peculiarly en-
dowed with the qualities of appreciation and gratitude. It has been a long and bitter
school in which they have been taught the value of friendship, and the withering, bitter,
unrelenting force of enmity. It is difficult even now to see, as in a few years it will
be impossible for any fair man to see, how remorselessly and persistently prejudice and
malice have followed you and your people in the crusade of over a generation against
you. As intelligent and Christian people, however, you have that quality which is the
most divine in human nature, the quality of forgiveness; and as I have watched this
struggle year after year and seen how strangely things have come out, how your enemies

The Shoreham, Washington, D. C., July 11, 1894.

My dear Sir:

Having at last reached success in the passage through Congress of the bill admitting Utah to Statehood, it is due to you to know something of the more important details of the long and difficult contest. The victory which has been reached has come only through the help of friends whose services can never be forgotten, and through a patience and persistence of effort which I have never seen equalled. Indeed, in this contest have been found nearly all the experiences of effort and resistance, of fidelity as against conspiracy, of loyalty to friends as against temptation, and truly all the experiences nearly that make up the struggles in human life and effort. Coming into it at a comparatively late stage, and having passed through before many noted contests, and not having the intense feeling of the struggle for home and independence that you and your people have felt after so many long and weary years of waiting, I have naturally been able to judge more impartially of the struggle, of the work of the people who have figured in it, of the unworthiness of those who have failed in fidelity, and of the debt of gratitude that all of you must forever owe to those who have stood in the storm, and through the stress and trial of years overcoming every obstacle, foiling every treachery, have brought you triumph at last. In my observation of your people and my analysis of their character I should judge that they are peculiarly endowed with the qualities of appreciation and gratitude. It has been a long and bitter school in which they have been taught the value of friendship, and the withering, bitter, unrelenting force of enmity. It is difficult even now to see, as in a few years it will be impossible for any fair man to see, how remorselessly and persistently prejudice and malice have followed you and your people in the crusade of over a generation against you. As intelligent and Christian people, however, you have that quality which is the most divine in human nature, the quality of forgiveness; and as I have watched this struggle year after year and seen how strangely things have come out, how your enemies