6
sorry to know that you with others
had ben forced to flee from your
persecuters, leave your families and
seek that protection among the Red
Man that is denied you by the more
civilized race. It seems hard that our
fathers who went to Utah when it was
a desolate wilderness and by their
unceasing efforts redeemed the land from
its sterrility and made the desert blossom
as the rose are now involuntary
fugitives, not from justice but from
inquisitorial judges who would inc-
arcerate them in the penitentary just
as surly as they submitted to arrest. It
appears to me that suspicion no matter
how founded is sufficient cause for
6
sorry to know that you with others
had ben forced to flee from your
persecuters, leave your families and
seek that protection among the Red
Man that is denied you by the more
civilized race. It seems hard that our
fathers who went to Utah when it was
a desolate wilderness and by their
unceasing efforts redeemed the land from
its sterility and made the desert blossom
as the rose are now involuntary
fugitives, not from justice but from
inquisitorial judges who would incarcerate them in the penitentary just
as surly as they submitted to arrest. It
appears to me that suspicion no matter
how founded is sufficient cause for
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 23 February 1885," p. 6, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 19, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/p79y