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However, there is no independent confirmation of these claims, as one non-LDS historian noted: | However, there is no independent confirmation of these claims, as one non-LDS historian noted: | ||
− | :according to a writer in the Internat. Rev., Feb. 1882, p. 192, [Burr] met with such opposition that he was compelled to flee for his life. I find no confirmation of this statement, nor does Mr Burr mention any disagreement with the Mormon authorities in his report, in House Ex. Doc., 34th Cent. 3d Sess., i. pt i. pp. 542-9.{ | + | :according to a writer in the Internat. Rev., Feb. 1882, p. 192, [Burr] met with such opposition that he was compelled to flee for his life. I find no confirmation of this statement, nor does Mr Burr mention any disagreement with the Mormon authorities in his report, in House Ex. Doc., 34th Cent. 3d Sess., i. pt i. pp. 542-9.{{ref|howe.485.12}} |
==Conclusion== | ==Conclusion== |
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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.
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:
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?
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