Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 335

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(UTAH.) Young, Brigham. Governor's Message to the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. 11 pages. 12mo, stitched; minor soiling to first two leaves, uncut on bottom edge. (MRS) [Salt Lake City, UT, 15 December 1857]
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Young expresses great frustration at his territory's treatment at the hands of the federal government, which has sent "a so-called army under mere color of law to force those officers upon us at the point of the bayonet." He complains that his territory has been made responsible for the support of its Indians, and indirectly seems to deny responsibility for the recent Mountain Meadows incident: "If we do not turn out and safely and without charge escort to their destination those passers-through who have cheated, and then poisoned and wantonly slain untutored savages, lying and corrupt presses throughout the Union will send forth against us a united and prolonged howl of base slander and false accusations, charging upon us all the murders and massacres occurring between the Missouri River and the Sierra Nevada mountains," adding that the Indians are "more sinned against than sinning." Flake 9352; McMurtrie, Utah 35 (traces only 3 copies); Streeter sale IV:2301 ("one of the great Mormon documents"). This may be the Streeter copy; the pencil note reading "excessively rare" appears to be in Streeter's hand, and the item was found in a Parke-Bernet envelope, but does not bear the Streeter bookplate.