Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p At the time of the Mountain Meadows massacre, Brigham Young, was serving as LDS Church President and would be replaced the following year by Alfred Cumming, as Governor of the Utah Territory. Evidence as to whether or not Brigham Young ordered the attack on the migrant column is conflicted.[citation needed] Historians still debate the autonomy and precise roles of local Cedar City LDS church officials in ordering the massacre and Young's concealing of evidence in its aftermath. Young's use of inflammatory and violent language in response to the Federal expedition (known as the Utah War) added to the tense atmosphere at the time of the attack. After the massacre, Young stated in public forums that God had taken vengeance on the Baker-Fancher party. It is unclear whether Young held this view because of a possible belief that this specific group posed a threat to colonists or that they were responsible for past crimes against Mormons. According to historian William P. MacKinnon, "After the war, Buchanan implied that face-to-face communications with Brigham Young might have averted the Utah War, and Young argued that a north-south telegraph line in Utah could have prevented the Mountain Meadows Massacre."</blockquote>. }
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- Brigham_Young_and_the_Mountain_Meadows_massacre abstract "At the time of the Mountain Meadows massacre, Brigham Young, was serving as LDS Church President and would be replaced the following year by Alfred Cumming, as Governor of the Utah Territory. Evidence as to whether or not Brigham Young ordered the attack on the migrant column is conflicted.[citation needed] Historians still debate the autonomy and precise roles of local Cedar City LDS church officials in ordering the massacre and Young's concealing of evidence in its aftermath. Young's use of inflammatory and violent language in response to the Federal expedition (known as the Utah War) added to the tense atmosphere at the time of the attack. After the massacre, Young stated in public forums that God had taken vengeance on the Baker-Fancher party. It is unclear whether Young held this view because of a possible belief that this specific group posed a threat to colonists or that they were responsible for past crimes against Mormons. According to historian William P. MacKinnon, "After the war, Buchanan implied that face-to-face communications with Brigham Young might have averted the Utah War, and Young argued that a north-south telegraph line in Utah could have prevented the Mountain Meadows Massacre."</blockquote>".