Show never have haie been seen the south pass r but bat weare I 1 I 1 dierf perfectly aware that the officer lani vani sand soldiers ordered to io utah know nothing of the merits of the case know nothing correctly about the saints and feel obligated t to carry out the orders of their superiors in authority no matter how unjust those orders may be forthie port Fort these hse reasons our bret brethren hrin have as yet been restrained from harming those officers and soldiers else the late battle between the soldiers bot soT diera and a prairie fire which gen hain harney y may record as his looth would have been the prelude to their surrender or bein being wiped out to cut acut out the loathsome disgusting ulcer 2 the government should have sent those who have solely for their religion killed the prophets driven women an and d chi children idren laren the sick the aged t and the infirm time and again in the dead of winter and those who have exult exulted edin in such fiendish conduct with stephen A dougla douglas s at their head and they would long iong ago have been bien food for wolves all that we ask and all that we have ever asked of government is simply our constitutional rights and now if they continue in their efforts to deprive us of every privilege upon the earth our common inheritance they will learn that american citizens upon american soil will not be driven any further than they maybeN may be illing willing or than they may see bee fit to drive themselves who have we injured no person on the face of the earth but on the contrary we have ever striven and ara are striving to do good goed unto all so far as lies in our power as our words and works prove and ever have proved but an expedition can be bet on foot against utah i entirely based upon palpable falsehoods and knowingly so based utterly reckless of every thing but the selfish views and desires of the outrageously a wicked and utterly regardless of p I 1 th the cold snows privations and hardships that officers and soldiers may have to endure in carrying out their nefariously concocted schemes with such depraved characters it is hurrah for hell hel exterminate the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 men women and children without so much as even a heaning hearing cbearing it may be asked askea dont you expect that the united states will swallow you atone at ode one gulp if they do they will find us to be horned toads in their belly and able to soon dig our pur way out in bome direction as has ever hitherto been the case and a as will now dow more abundantly be the result which one ight imagine 4 that our enemies could comprehend from all past experience experience should they undertake to send ar armies liea in sufficient numbers to smother us under they will constantly have to furnish all their provision forage and every thing b they need for their sustenance in an isolated undesirable and desert country and be continually on the alert to keep it guarded on every side and with all that immense expenditure of the peoples means for the destruction of the innocent and with all that vast array of men ordered out to serve the devil what are they after perhaps the rest of mankind for the land we occupy is public domain in whose conquest we most mater materially lall laii assisted then what do our enemies expect to gain by it they already know that they will only gain a region that all other whites have rejected for settlement and one which the saints with the loftiest loft iest ing motives tives and the most untiring industry are occupying in every way exemplary to the whole human family but it may be that our ene enemies inies are hunting what in their estimation is a mere speck in creation 7 it if so why can they not understand that religious persecution has bas ever increased and strengthened the persecuted then why add sin to pin sin in futile efforts to overthrow those righteous principles they will not obey but which will prevail whether opposed or not and all the more rapidly the more they are opposed and the priests of the day do not dot indicate much faith in the god they profess to worship for they are calling upon civil and military aid to subdue a people they term deluded aside from the wicked and shortsighted short sighted contradiction between their professions and practice as manifested in ever urging on religious persecution against 0 the saints why do they not shout rend their garments and cut themselves for peradventure their god like ilke the gods 0 of the ancient priests of baal is asleep or on a long journay journey giving back leniency 5 and an unprecedented forbearance on our part have been invariably I 1 m manifested anif anit ested in t the he eyes of all alt peccie people abid and there must of necessity carne comb come a a p pernod period ehilt haid iz id limit when self preservation wilt will require a lun iun burhess burress lles fles s our af en enemies i the enemies or the unia union it ad of ivery avery g good v virtuous d pil principle pie plead add and ad wholesome law and regulation see I 1 th the e folly of their move movements ments menti and abase cease carr earr carrying ying on on theis infernal crusade against a people who only desire the best beat welfare of all mankind and again do we most res p eaf ully request the government of the united stat es if they design to persist in their present wicked crusade against ua us not to send a soldiery here hero who bo know nothing about us and who are in nowise concer cancer concerned ned in the miserable schemes now dow so popular but to call upon those priests editors officeholders office holders office hunters speculators c mormon lormon A eaters and of every huo hue all who delight in making a hell upon this earth to volunteer for such a devilish service for then a large amount of the bad blood in our nation would be readily and easily disposed of and uneasy spirits released to the I 1 befit peace and nd welfare of every g good as c 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