"Dear Sir,—
"As you may need some facts not reported at length in the memorial and other documents, relating to the proposed Territory of Nevada, I herewith submit them.
"The Mormons and Anti-Mormons began the settlement of Western Utah in the latter part of 1854. The former, however, succeeded, in 1855, in obtaining a numerical majority; and the Legislature of Utah, on being informed of this fact, organized the whole western part of the Territory, under the name of Carson County, and Governor Young appointed Orson Hyde, the President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, its Probate Judge. Soon after the Judge arrived, adventurers from California, as well as from the Atlantic States, settled in Carson and other valleys on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, for the purpose of mining,
farming, and raising stock. As they increased very fast, the Mormons became alarmed, and determined to expel them.
"They therefore ordered them to leave the country. Of course the Christians, or Anti-Mormons refused to do so. The Mormons then assembled their forces, and attempted to expel them, vi et armis. The Anti-Mormons also organized, and fortified themselves, with a view of defending their lives and property against their assailants.
"For two weeks their armies camped nearly in sight of each other, without coming to a direct battle.
"By this time, news had reached the miners in California of this state of affairs, and a large number had determined to cross the mountains, and afford protection to the Anti-Mormons. On hearing this, the Mormons became satisfied that, unless they retraced their steps, they would be driven themselves from the country, instead of the Anti-Mormons. They therefore proposed a truce, and agreed that all should enjoy a common heritage in that part of the Territory.
"The Mormons now became satisfied that the Christians not only could, but would occupy these fertile valleys, on the ground that they were the common property of the United States. When the Legislature of Utah heard of this affair, that body, in violation of every constitutional right, repealed the county organization, recalled the Probate Judge, and removed all the county and court records to Salt Lake City, where they have ever since remained. Amongst these records were several indictments against certain persons for high crimes and misdemeanors. By this flagrant violation of all sacred, individual, collective, and constitutional rights, the people of Western Utah were not only denied all legal protection to life and property, but they were disfranchised. They have ever been unrepresented in the Legislature and in Congress. The history of our country presents no such a record of open defiance of law, and such cruelties to men under the form of laws.
"For years the Anti-Mormons have been applying, both to the Territorial Legislature and to Congress, for protection, without success.
"Their situation has ever been, and still is, peculiarly unsafe and annoying. Recently a Probate Judge was surreptitiously appointed for Carson Valley, with a view of reorganizing the