Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Ronald W. Walker & Richard E. Turley & Glen M. Leonard

Author:Ronald W. Walker & Richard E. Turley & Glen M. Leonard
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-07-22T07:00:00+00:00

32. Nephi Johnson, JDL2-BT 1:77–79, JDL2-PS 2:80–81. In Lee’s posthumously published memoirs, edited by his attorney, the following passage appears:

After the dead were covered up or buried (but it was not much of a burial,) the brethren were called together, and a council was held at the emigrant camp. All the leading men made speeches; Colonel Dame, President Haight, Klingensmith, John M. Higbee, Hopkins and myself. The speeches were first—Thanks to God for delivering our enemies into our hands; next, thanking the brethren for their zeal in God’s cause; and then the necessity of always saying the Indians did it alone, and that the Mormons had nothing to do with it. The most of the speeches, however, were in the shape of exhortations and commands to keep the whole matter secret from every one but Brigham Young. It was voted unanimously that any man who should divulge the secret, or tell who was present, or do anything that would lead to a discovery of truth, should suffer death.

The brethren then all took a most solemn oath, binding themselves under the most dreadful and awful penalties, to keep the whole matter secret from every human being, as long as they should live. No man was to know the facts. The brethren were sworn not to talk of it among themselves, and each one swore to help kill all who proved to be traitors to the Church or people in this matter. (MU, 247–48.)

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