As they stood on the platform waiting for the call to board, President Woodruff put his arm around Golden, and asked, 'Brother Kimball, I've never been to the Southern States.  What's it like?  Tell me about the people of the South.  I understand the Civil War changed them.  What are your thoughts?'

Golden hadn't seen the Southerners at their best.  He had been chased, insulted and assaulted while on his first mission.  Once they even put him in an iron cage and hung if from a tree so folks could get a good look at a real, live Mormon.  Dixie had severely tested his Christian charity. "'President,' he said, 'if I had my way, I'd drown them all and do baptismal work for the dead.'