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Show 65 instrumental in getting them to sign. It appears that the gifts brought by Irish and the blunt rhetoric of Brigham Young were both influential. Young addressed them thus as he told them to sign: Ex Governor Young (Huntington Interpreter) San-pitch, Sow-e-ett, Tabby, and all of you. I want you to understand what I say to you. I am looking for your welfare. Do you see that the Mormons here are increasing? We have been and calculate to be friends all the time. If you do not sell your land to the Government, they will take it, whether you are willing to sell it or not. This is the way they have done in California and Oregon. They are willing to give you something for it and we want you to have it. If you go to Uintah, they will build you houses, make you a farm, give you cows, oxen, clothing, blankets and many other things you will want. And, then, the treaty that Colonel Irish has here, gives you the privilege of coming back here on a visit; you can fish, hunt, pick berries, dig roots and we can visit together. Kon-osh, San-pitch, Tabby and the rest of you, can come and see me when you please. The land does not belong to you, nor to me, nor to the Government! It belongs to the Lord. But our father at Washington is disposed to make you liberal presents to let the Mormons live here. We have not been able to pay you enough, although we have helped you a good deal. We have always fed you, and we have given you presents, just as much as we could; 'but now the great father is willing to give you more; knd it won't make one particle of difference whether you say they may have the land or not, because we shall increase, and we shall occupy this valley and the next, and the next, and so on until we occupy the whole of them; and we are willing you should live with us. If you will go over there and have your houses built and get your property and money, we are perfectly willing you should visit with us. Do you understand that, Kon-osh? Kon-osh (and others). We do. We feel to do you good; and know that this treaty is just as liberal and does everything for*y°u a n^ your people that can be done. If it were not so, I would not ask you to sign it. But as for the land, it is the Lord's and we shall occupy it, and spread abroad until we occupy the whole of it; and we want you and your children to live , so that you can live with us and our children. Now, if you can |