1885 — Declaration of Grievances and Protest — Ratified and adopted in mass meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, May 2d, 1885

At a General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints held in Logan, Utah, on the 6th of April, 1885, it was unanimously resolved that a committee be appointed to draft a series of resolutions and a protest to the President of the United States, and to the nation, in which the wrongs of the people of this Territory have suffered and are still suffering, from the tyrannical conduct of Federal officials, should be set forth specifically and in detail, and to ask, in respectful language for the same treatment to which other citizens of the United States are entitled, and to report the same to a mass meeting to be afterwards called.

In accordance with this resolution, the undersigned were appointed a committee to draft an expression of the views of the people. They prepared the accompanying document, and submitted it to mass meetings called for the purpose and held in the several counties of the Territory on Saturday, May 2, 1885, by each of which it was unanimously ratified and adopted.

– Jno. T. Caine
– Wm. Jennings
– Feramoz Little
– Jas. Sharp
– Heber J. Grant
– John W. Taylor
– Orson F. Whitney
– Jno Q. Cannon
– Junius F. Wells
– Charles O. Card
– Abram Hatch
and others

Heber M. Wells, Secretary, John T. Caine, Chairman

8 pages; single sided print; long booklet; lifts up from the bottom (We’ve provided you with the cover, the first page, second page, and last page.)

Actually in quite good condition; very rare! When we listed this item there was one other online that we found at $1500.00.

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