Brigham Young repeats what he heard Alfred Cumming tell Charles E. Sinclair: they did not want the guilty to be persecuted to paint the Church in negative light.
- Type
- Personal Journal / Diary
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim
- Reference
Brigham Young Office Journal, August 27, 1859, CR 1234 2, Church History Library
- Scribe/Publisher
- Unknown
- Transcription
The Policy of Gov. Cumming was referred to <by> The Prest. said that Gov. Cumming <had> told Chas. Sinclair that he did not care about bringing the guilty about the Mountain Meadow Massacre, but that he wanted all the time to injure the leading men of the Mormon Church
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