"...I was here with George A. Smith. He was below at Washington, and requested me to come with him. Smith was preaching to the people about saving their grain, and that they were expecting war with the United States, and spoke of the emigrants passing through."

Your reported asked Lee what was George A. Smith's business at the Meadows? Lee said, "If you knew the situation and feelings of the people at the time you would know for yourself."

Reporter.—Did he preach hostile to the emigrants.

Lee.—He was visiting all the settlements and

PREACHING AGAINST THE EMIGRANTS.

I don't know that he meant those particular emigrants. . . . I have no right to say whether other participants in the massacre acted under orders or not.

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SOME OF IT WAS LEFT OUT,

in relation to Brigham Young. In speaking of himself as being sacrificed, he said: "I am a true believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I do not believe everything taught and practiced by Brigham Young. I do not care who hears it. They are my last words. It is so. I believe he is leading the people astray downward to destruction. But I believe the gospel as it was taught in its purity by Joseph Smith in former days. I have my reasons for it. I studied to make this man's (Brigham Young) will my pleasure for thirty years. See, now, what I have come to this day. I have been sacrificed in a cowardly and dastardly manner." He then spoke of the falsity of the evidence brought against him, and concluded: "There is a kind of alluring charm and magnetic influence which has come over the people, and I cannot compare it to anything else than

THE REPTILE,

which charms his prey till it captivates it, paralyzes it, and rushes to the jaws of death. I cannot compare it to anything else. It is so. I know it. I am satisfied of it." Lee compared Brigham Young to the reptile and the people to the prey. He had evidently studied his speech. He was deeply moved in speaking of his family.