Sherman Logan you conveniently left this out
So when these Missourians traveling through Utah boasted that they had been active in the Missouri persecutions of the Mormons, those were the memories their words recalled.
But of greater concern were the acts of the Missouri Wildcats as they traveled farther through Utah—they began to destroy the Mormons’ crops and tear down the fences and to systematically poison the water springs.
Added to this were their repeated threats that they would bring hundreds of men back from California and would then kill every Mormon that was in the mountains.
At Corn Creek, 15 miles south of Fillmore, the Missourians put arsenic in the spring and strychnine in an ox carcass which was fed to local idians. Ten of the indians died, along with a Mormon settler. Many of the Mormon cattle drank the water and also died.
As theMissouri WIldcats traveled farther south they poisoned wells and springs at numerous places along their route.
To poison the water and destroy the meager crops in late summer, in that barren southern Utah outpost are, was literally an act of intended murder—for how could the settlers survive for more than a day or two in the heat of summer without water in that arid desert?
Do you read my posts?
I stated that whether the Missouri Wildcats did these things is debated, that it is likely some of the reports were unsubstantiated rumors, and that many of the Mormon men participating in the massacre probably believed all the rumors to be fact.
Tell me, when did bragging, boasting and perhaps even well poisoning justify killing 10 year old girls?
Resty, SL acknowledge that there may have been reasons that the Mormons involved in MMM did what they did; but he was quite correct that there is no excuse for what they did.
I, for one, will not try to rationalize evil, particularly when committed by those who profess to believe in the same faith as me.
What they did was evil. There is no defense.
It’s wise for us to acknowledge this, and move on.