ght, so that we could talk in safety.

After we got to the Iron Works Haight told me about the train of
emigrants. He said that the emigrants were a rough and abusive
set of men. That they had, while traveling through Utah, been
abusive to the Mormons. That they had insulted many of the Mormon
women. That the abuses heaped upon the people by the emigrants
during their trip from Provo to Cedar City had been constant and
shameful; that they had burned fences and destroyed growing
crops; that they had poisoned the water, so that all people and
stock that drank of the water became sick, and many had died from
the effects of the poison. That these vile Gentiles publicly
proclaimed that they had the very pistol with which the Prophet
Joseph was murdered, and had threatened to kill Brigham and all
of the apostles. That, when in Cedar City, they said they would
hang Brigham by the neck until he was dead, before snow fell in
the Territory. They also said that Johnston was coming with his
army from the East, and they were going to return from California
with soldiers, as soon as possible, and desolate the land and
kill every Mormon man, woman, and child they could find in Utah.
That they violated the ordinances of the town of Cedar, and had,
by armed force, resisted the officers who tried to arrest them
for violating the law. That after leaving Cedar City the
emigrants camped in the company, or cooperative field just below
Cedar City, and burned the fencing, leaving the crops open to the
herds of stock. Also that they had given poisoned meat to the
Corn Creek tribe of Indians, which had killed several of them,
and that they and their Chief, Konosh, were on the trail of the
emigrants, and would soon attack them. These things, and much
more of like kind, Haight told me as we lay in the dark at the
old Iron Works.

Brother Haight said that unless something was done to prevent it
the emigrants would rob every one of the outlying settlements in
the south, and that the whole Mormon people were liable to be
butchered by the troops the emigrants would bring back with them
from California. I was then told that the Council had held a
meeting that day, to consider the matter, and it had been decided
by the authorities to arm the Indians, give them provisions and
ammunition, and send them after the emigrants. The Indians were
to give them a brush, and if they killed part or all of them, so
much the better.

"Brother Haight, who is your