James H. Martineau indicates William Dame initially ordered the emigrant company be allowed to pass in peace.
- Type
- Letter
- Source
- James H. Martineau LDS
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- DirectLate
- Reference
James H. Martineau, Letter to F. E. Eldredge, July 23, 1907, rep. Useful to the Church and Kingdom: The Journals of James H. Martineau, Pioneer and Patriarch, 1850–1918, ed. Noel A. Carmack and Charles M. Hatch (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2023), 1276
- Scribe/Publisher
- Signature Books, James H. Martineau
- Audience
- F. E. Eldredge
PDF- Transcription
By Col. Dame's order ^direction^ I wrote an order directing that all possible means should be used to keep the peace until the emigrants should leave and proceed upon their journey, and remember perfectly part of that order, which was in these words, "Do not notice their threats, Words are but wind they injure no one; but if they (the emigrants) commit acts of violence against citizens inform me by express, and such measures will be adopted as will insure tranquility."
This order was directed to the authorities at Cedar City, from Col. Dame's head quarters in Parowan, 18 miles distant.
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