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Show 70 But even if the Mormons were ready to purchase and could not legally do BO because the government continued to do nothing, they surely did not seek to mak « matters easier for the government to aot. Mor. pon Disloyalty Charged. In the Indian Affairs Report of 1S57 » D r• Garland Hunt, agent in the territory 2 sinoe February 1JS55* teir. s of Mormon missionaries among the Indian*; "* I have become satisfied that these saints have either accidentally or purposely created a distinction in the minds of the Indian tribes of this Territory, between the Mormons and the people of the United States that oannot act otherwise than prejudicial to the interests of the latter, and what, sir, may we expect of these missionaries? There is perhaps not a tribe on the continent that will not beHsited by one or more of them. I suspeot their final object will be to teach these wretchdd savages that they are the rightful owners of the American soil, and that it has been wrongfully taken from them by the whites, and that the Great Spirit has sent the Mormons among them to help them recover their rights. 1 Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of Utah, p. 4S5. a Whitney, Urson F. , History of Utah, vol. I, p. 5* K>. |