But Cumming was the Federal Governor, and he, under a curious pretense of impartiality, sought to screen the Mormons from the demands of justice.

On one occasion he even went so far as to publish his protest against the use of the U.S.troops in aid of Cradlebaugh's proceedings.
Mrs.C.V.Waite closes her interesting detail of the great massacre with the following remark and accompanying summary of the testimony--and the summary is concise, accurate and reliable: "For the benefit of those who may still be disposed to doubt the guilt of Young and his Mormons in this transaction, the testimony is here collated and circumstances given which go not merely to implicate but to fasten conviction upon them by 'confirmations strong as proofs of Holy Writ:' "1.

The evidence of Mormons themselves, engaged in the affair, as shown by the statements of Judge Cradlebaugh and Deputy U.S.

Marshall Rodgers.
"2.

The failure of Brigham Young to embody any account of it in his Report as Superintendent of Indian Affairs.