Fanny Stenhouse writes that Brigham must have implicitly approved of the massacre.

Date
1878
Type
Book
Source
Fanny Stenhouse
Resigned
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Fanny Stenhouse, "Tell it All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism (Hartford, Conn: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1878), 337

Scribe/Publisher
A. D. Worthington & Co.
People
Brigham Young, William H. Dame, Fanny Stenhouse, John D. Lee, Isaac C. Haight
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

This is the story-most imperfectly told-for I dare not sketch its foulest details,-of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Brigham Young, who was at the time Governor of the Territory and also Indian Agent, made no report of the matter. Let that fact of itself speak for his innocence or guilt. Would any other governor or agent in another Territory have been thus silent? John D. Lee, and Dame, and Haight, and the other wretches have never been brought to trial or cut off from the Church, although their monstrous crime has never been a secret, nor have any endeavors been made to conceal it.

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