. . a company of emigrants were traveling on the route to California. Nearly all of that company were destroyed by the Indians. That unfortunate affair has been laid to the charge of the whites. A certain judge that was then in this Territory wanted the whole army to accompany him to Iron county to try the whites for the murder of that company of emigrants . . . but to this day they have not touched the matter, for fear the Mormons would be acquitted from the charge of having any hand in it, and our enemies would thus be deprived of a favourite topic to talk about, when urging hostility against us. ‘The Mountain Meadow massacre! Only think of the Mountain Meadow massacre!!’ is their cry from one end of the land to the other.