purely honorable purposes and yet for necessary things, were raised entirely from Repub-
lican sources because of friendship for your and your people and because of
confident faith that the Territory was to be identified with Republican policies and
ambitions. This help has come freely, has been used wisely, and without it success could
not possibly have been achieved. It has been used with as much honor and to as good re-
sults as conscience could suggest or honesty require.
In closing this letter, which is so long that fear it may weary you but yet
which I could not make shorter and which indeed I might have made longer under my sense
of fidelity to all the friends we have found, I am constrained by such a sense of appre-
ciation as I have never been called upon to feel before, to refer again to the strangely
loyal and successful and splendid service which over long years and in the face of every
obstacle and against impediments which would have dismayed any other man I have evenr
known, Colonel has served you and your people. It has been beautiful to me to see
such a friendship possible in the human heart. His ambition for your people, his deter-
mination to lift them up out of wrong into victory, to compensate them for the injustice
they have suffered, to make them known to all the American people for their honesty of
character and their purity of good intentions, and the dedication of his life to the end
of making the Mormon name as honorable and as accepted in honor in the sight of every
high minded American, have renewed my faith in human nature. It has inspired my own
heart to see how he has been actuated also by loving friendship and devotion to you. No
son whom I have ever known could be more loyal, and no son I have ever known has served
a father as well as he has served you. It has been, as he has constantly said to me,
not only his ambition to accomplish this desired vindication for your people, but also to
accomplish it in your time and under your Presidency, while you were still the shepherd
of your people and the hope of all our hearts.
Whatever appreciation you shall show to him, whatever honor you may offer to
him, it will be deserved. In addition to the gratitude you shall forever owe him, I
feel it as a sense of duty to you as well as to myself, and to the pledges I have every-
where made, to say that I think he should be sent on your own motion as one of the men
purely honorable purposes and yet for necessary things, were raised entirely from Republican sources because of friendship for your and your people and because of
confident faith that the Territory was to be identified with Republican policies and
ambitions. This help has come freely, has been used wisely, and without it success could
not possibly have been achieved. It has been used with as much honor and to as good results as conscience could suggest or honesty require.
In closing this letter, which is so long that fear it may weary you but yet
which I could not make shorter and which indeed I might have made longer under my sense
of fidelity to all the friends we have found, I am constrained by such a sense of appreciation as I have never been called upon to feel before, to refer again to the strangely
loyal and successful and splendid service which over long years and in the face of every
obstacle and against impediments which would have dismayed any other man I have ever
known, Colonel has served you and your people. It has been beautiful to me to see
such a friendship possible in the human heart. His ambition for your people, his determination to lift them up out of wrong into victory, to compensate them for the injustice
they have suffered, to make them known to all the American people for their honesty of
character and their purity of good intentions, and the dedication of his life to the end
of making the Mormon name as honorable and as accepted in honor in the sight of every
high minded American, have renewed my faith in human nature. It has inspired my own
heart to see how he has been actuated also by loving friendship and devotion to you. No
son whom I have ever known could be more loyal, and no son I have ever known has served
a father as well as he has served you. It has been, as he has constantly said to me,
not only his ambition to accomplish this desired vindication for your people, but also to
accomplish it in your time and under your Presidency, while you were still the shepherd
of your people and the hope of all our hearts.
Whatever appreciation you shall show to him, whatever honor you may offer to
him, it will be deserved. In addition to the gratitude you shall forever owe him, I
feel it as a sense of duty to you as well as to myself, and to the pledges I have everywhere made, to say that I think he should be sent on your own motion as one of the men