Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mountain Meadows Massacre" in English language version.
Is the spirit of the government and rule here despotic? In their use of the word, some may deem it so. It lays the ax at the root of the tree of sin and iniquity; judgment is dealt out against the transgression of the law of God. If that is despotism, then the policy of this people may be deemed despotic. But does not the government of God, as administered here, give to every person his rights?
'Terrorism' is not a word to be taken lightly. But the evidence, coupled with long-forgotten Mormon doctrines, demonstrate that the purpose of the Mountain Meadows atrocity was to strike fear into the hearts of intruders ....
Prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, the Mountain Meadows massacre was the largest act of domestic terrorism to ever occur on American soil.
September 11 will mark the anniversary of the most horrific terrorist attack in U.S. history. ... I refer to September 11, 1857. ... It was the most horrific terrorist attack in our nation's history, not as figured by body count, but in the way its victims were slain.
Prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, the Mountain Meadows massacre was the largest act of domestic terrorism to ever occur on American soil.
...it was made known by Higbee that the emigrants were to be wiped out.
[7] – outbreak of the Mormon War ... Mormons were already engaged in hostilities with the United States Army forces, [18] – were inciting unrest by intimating that the real purpose of the river expedition was to steal Indian lands ... [19] – Mormon rebels were among the Mohaves inciting them to murder and plunder ... [Thales] Haskell's impressions of his hosts as treacherous Yankees bent on plundering helpless Mormons.
Church leaders were adamant that the statement should not be construed as an apology. 'We don't use the word "apology". We used "profound regret"', church spokesman Mark Tuttle told The Associated Press.
If you were to inquire of the people who lived hereabouts, and lived in the country at that time, you would find, ... that some of this Arkansas company ...boasted of having to helped to kill Hyrum and Joseph Smith and the Mormons in Missouri, and that they never meant to leave the Territory until similar scenes were enacted here.
[After being asked by the interviewer if he believed in blood atonement, Young replied] "I do, and I believe that Lee has not half atoned for his great crime"
To this day, the Mormon Church has not officially admitted the extent of its members' responsibility for the massacre, even after construction workers at the site in 1999 unearthed evidence that more or less proved the case.
Apart from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, no single incident of civil terrorism—Americans killing Americans—has resulted in more deaths than the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Is the spirit of the government and rule here despotic? In their use of the word, some may deem it so. It lays the ax at the root of the tree of sin and iniquity; judgment is dealt out against the transgression of the law of God. If that is despotism, then the policy of this people may be deemed despotic. But does not the government of God, as administered here, give to every person his rights?
It is a stern fact that the people of the United States have shed the blood of the Prophets, driven out the Saints of God,...consequently I look for the Lord to use His whip on the refractory son called 'Uncle Sam';...
