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Show 300 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. they are told in the orders, are to be treated as strangers, yea, even as enemies, and not as friends." And if there should be such a contest, if we should be called upon to defend our lives, our liberty, and our possessions, we would cut such off the first, and walk over their dead bodies to conquer the foe outside. Martial law is not enforced yet, although the whole Territory is in a state of war, apparently, but it is only the Utah [Indians] who have declared war on Utah [Territory]. Deseret has not yet declared war; how soon it will be declared is not for me to say; but we have a right, and it is our duty, to put ourselves in a state of self-defence. The few families that settled in Cedar Valley, at the" point of the mountains, were instructed to leave there, last spring. They have gone back again, upon then own responsibility, and now want to know what they must do. They have been told to do just as they have a mind to. Those who have taken their wives and children in the canons to live, have been told to remove them into the city ; and if you want to make shingles, or do any other work that requires you to remain there, have your gun in a situation that an Indian cannot creep up and steal it from you before you are aware, that you can be good for a few Indians if they should chance to come upon you. If I wished to live away from the body of the people, my first effort should be directed towards building a good and efficient fort. When new settlements were made in the eastern countries, they built them of timber, and they were called " block-houses." I would advise that every house in a new settlement should be |