Utah. 3. What the "Mormons" thought of the army. 4. How the army was
stopped.

Questions and Review.--1. Who was Judge Drummond? 2. What report did he
make to the government about Utah affairs? 3. What led President Buchanan
to send an army to Utah? 4. What was the object of sending this army? 5.
When did the Saints first hear of it? 6. What did the "Mormons" resolve to
do? 7. Why could they not trust the army? 8. What did the Utah militia do?
9. What was the object in annoying the troops? 10. What hindered the troops
from entering Salt Lake valley that year?




CHAPTER XXXIII.

THE "UTAH WAR," (CONCLUDED.)


When that friend of the Latter-day Saints, Colonel, afterwards General
Thomas L. Kane, heard of the troubles in Utah, he left his home in
Philadelphia and went to Washington to see the president. Though feeble in
health, he offered to go to Utah and try to settle the difficulties in a
peaceable manner. The offer was accepted. Colonel Kane arrived in Salt Lake
City in February, 1858, where he was gladly received. In the cold and snow
of that winter he went to the camp of the army and had a talk with the new
governor whom the president had appointed to take Brigham Young's place.
Colonel Kane told the officers with the army that they would be welcomed in
the valley and kindly treated, but the troops must not locate in or near
any settlement of the territory. The Colonel also convinced Governor