In article <
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Fair Play <
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> The Mountain Meadows massacre was a series of attacks on the
> Baker�Fancher emigrant wagon train at Mountain Meadows in southern
> Utah. The attacks culminated on September 11, 1857, with the mass
> slaughter of the emigrant party by the Iron County district of the
> Utah Territorial Militia and some local Native Americans.
>
> The wagon train�composed almost entirely of families from Arkansas�was
> bound for California on a route that passed through the Utah Territory
> during a turbulent period later known as the Utah War. After arriving
> in Salt Lake City, the Baker�Fancher party made their way south,
> eventually stopping to rest at Mountain Meadows. While the emigrants
> were camped at the meadow, nearby militia leaders, including Isaac C.
> Haight and John D. Lee, made plans to attack the wagon train.
>
> The militia, officially called the Nauvoo Legion, was composed of
> Utah's Mormon settlers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
> Latter-day Saints or LDS Church). Intending to give the appearance of
> Native American aggression, their plan was to arm some Southern Paiute
> Native Americans and persuade them to join with a larger party of
> their own militiamen�disguised as Native Americans�in an attack.
>
> During the initial assault on the wagon train, the emigrants fought
> back and a five-day siege ensued. Eventually fear spread among the
> militia's leaders that some emigrants had caught sight of white men,
> and had probably discovered who their attackers really were.
>
> This resulted in an order by militia commander William H. Dame for the
> emigrants' annihilation. Running low on water and provisions, the
> emigrants allowed a party of militiamen to enter their camp, who
> assured them of their safety and escorted them out of their hasty
> fortification. After walking a distance from the camp, the militiamen,
> with the help of auxiliary forces hiding nearby, attacked the
> emigrants.
>
> Intending to leave no witnesses of complicity by Mormons in the
> attacks, and to prevent reprisals that would further complicate the
> Utah War, the perpetrators killed all the adults and older children
> (totaling about 120 men, women, and children). Seventeen children, all
> younger than seven, were spared.
>
> Following the massacre the perpetrators hastily buried the victims,
> leaving their bodies vulnerable to wild animals and the climate. Local
> families took in the surviving children, and many of the victims'
> possessions were auctioned off.
>
> Investigations, temporarily interrupted by the American Civil War,
> resulted in nine indictments during 1874. Of the men indicted, only
> John D. Lee was tried in a court of law. After two trials in the Utah
> Territory, Lee was convicted by a jury and executed.
>
> Today historians attribute the massacre to a combination of factors
> including both war hysteria and strident Mormon teachings. Scholars
> still debate whether senior Mormon leadership, including Brigham
> Young, directly instigated the massacre or if responsibility lies with
> the local leaders of southern Utah.
>
> the LDS archives, as quoted in Quinn 1997, p. 247 (A Mormon who
> listened to a sermon by Young in 1849 recorded that Young said "if any
> one was catched stealing to shoot them dead on the spot and they
> should not be hurt for it.");
>
> Young 1856b, p. 247 (stating that a man would be justified in putting
> a javelin through his plural wife caught in the act of adultery, but
> anyone intending to "execute judgment�has got to have clean hands and
> a pure heart,�else they had better let the matter alone");
>
> Young 1857, p. 219 ("[I]f [your neighbor] needs help, help him; and
> if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the
> earth in order that he may be saved, spill it");
>
> I will tell you how it could be done, we could take the same law they
> have taken, viz., mobocracy, and if any miserable scounderels come
> here, cut their throats. (All the people said, Amen)."); Quinn 1997
>
> Mormons in Cedar City were taught that members should ignore dead
> bodies and go about their business. See Letter from Mary L. Campbell
> to Andrew Jenson
Yeah, and? Does that compare to Democrat Andrew Jackson's treatment of
the Cherokees? How many of them died on the Trail of Tears.
Leftards, batshit crazy and dogshit stupid, every single last one of you.
snicker