Show TEXAS fexas fider flo flogcher icher duncan to eljer elder robert cmpbell ELLIS co july 5 1856 I 1 have had a very severe attack of fever teer bat but b ift itt am better now I 1 am able to sit up most 1 of the day although though 31 my mind is 13 quite wandering and my body ody trembling the texas mission mi assion met here those of of us that remain for another arother year to take into consideration the best course to pursue pl itsue seeing that the people popie have become so hostile and almost closed their doors against us we held a few meetings some believed our doctrines but such persecution followed that those dare not be for fear of the blackjacks black jacks and cow whips A mob of 30 men came armed to take and blackjack black jack us but we have a god who reigns above that told told us to leave the settlement for tor a time which we did 1 I traveled upwards of one hundred miles and then returned when I 1 learned that on the next day after I 1 left a mob of 32 men armed with cam came e to ille lile the house four abreast and ad eight deep but dispersed Lis cis persed not finding the object of their search br wm C moody john and morris J have gone into the southern counties counties I 1 have not heard from them since they left I 1 do not expect that and wi will it ne return turn to this point until next spring I 1 expect to start the camp early next spang spi ing and intend to be in the valley by the last of july ely 1857 if there is no part of the world that wishes to hear the truth more than texas I 1 think that the gentiles have about counted ea es unworthy of eternal life I 1 believe that I 1 would rather travel amon amona the blue blu bellied yankees than amongst this ignorant ignorant 0 people |