President Young said the people of the United States had sought our destruction and they had used every Exertion to parfe[c]t it Joseph & Hyrum Smith were Master Masons and they were put to death by masons or through their instigation and he gave the sign of distress & he was shot by masons while in the act and there were delegates from the various lodges in the union to see that he was put to death. [illegible] I hope to live to see the day when I can have power to make them do right they have got the blood of the prophets upon their heads & they have got to meet it.