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Critics claim that the Mormons' hostile attitude to the United States is revealed by death threats made against U.S. surveyor general David H. Burr. | Critics claim that the Mormons' hostile attitude to the United States is revealed by death threats made against U.S. surveyor general David H. Burr. | ||
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Burr did not mention any threats against his life even in his official report to Congress. These claims were made later, and are therefore suspicious. They may well have their roots more in anti-Mormon animus than in the facts. If the Mormons had threatened a federal appointee's life, why would he not report such behavior to the Congress which sent him? | Burr did not mention any threats against his life even in his official report to Congress. These claims were made later, and are therefore suspicious. They may well have their roots more in anti-Mormon animus than in the facts. If the Mormons had threatened a federal appointee's life, why would he not report such behavior to the Congress which sent him? |
Critics claim that the Mormons' hostile attitude to the United States is revealed by death threats made against U.S. surveyor general David H. Burr.
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Burr did not mention any threats against his life even in his official report to Congress. These claims were made later, and are therefore suspicious. They may well have their roots more in anti-Mormon animus than in the facts. If the Mormons had threatened a federal appointee's life, why would he not report such behavior to the Congress which sent him?
The appointment of a U.S. surveyor general raised some problems for the Saints in in Utah:
Worried that the government might be trying to use legal maneuvering to dispossess them of the land they had settled and improved, some Mormons may have tried to hamper Burr's work. In spring 1857, Burr would return to the east, claiming that he could not perform his duties and that his life had been threatened.
However, there is no independent confirmation of these claims, as one non-LDS historian noted:
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