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Transcript for "Josephite Train from Utah," Salt Lake Daily Reporter, 15 July 1868, 2
The captain of the train furnished us the following particulars of their movements:
Cheyenne, July 8, 1868.
EDITOR LEADER: Be kind enough to say in our behalf that we arrived here safe this evening. Our company is from Malad Valley, Idaho, and Utah, having been on the road since the 23d of may. No stock lost, no Indian difficulties; our health is good at present; one child died at 1 p. m., to-day—the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Morgan, aged seven years.
We are often asked where we are from, and where we are going; in answer to which questions please say for us, we are from the land of Brigham's oppression, and that we are seeking homes where we may enjoy civil and religious liberty. We have long expended our time and labor, and exhausted our energies in enriching the so called President of the Mormon church, and have at length determined to leave that fountain head of falsehood, and endeavor to establish homes where our earnings may be applied to making ourselves and our families comfortable, and providing our children with liberal educations. Believing Brigham Young to be wrong, and having faith in the good results of our honest convictions and purposes, we left Deseret, and now find ourselves in a land of equal civil and religious liberty.
Capt. Of Train of Josephites.
P. S.—Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegraph please copy. W. W.