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Show ALMA. BOOK to wl request, gladly, that I may preserve my food war; oe "ther t and we will wage a war which shall be es . their ete? the subjecting the Nephites to our authority, 01 nal extinction. And as concerning that God Ce vo ity ae ’ have rejected, behold, we know not such a ox, eS nt ye; but if it so be that there is such a being, we yt but i in the city of Gid; therefore Moroni caused @stnall number of men which was appointed that Laman to go with m. f “ it came we the to pass that when it was evening, Lama n went ee which were over the Nephites, and behold, they “um coming, and they hailed him. .But ‘he saith unto tM; Pear not. Behold, fam a Lamanite. Behold, we have atped from the Nephites, and the sleepet h; and behold, we © took of their wine, and brought with us. Nowwhen the?"” mManites heard these words, they received: him ‘with joy.— ®y said unto him, Give us of your wine , that we may . _ aeoi ae Oe by those “wa oe then » rause thatmaple my pe w 7]ill I cause belong, government doth no war at be shall and ; shal lay down their weapons, Oe me" Hea vehare breathed sihotany threatnings agama’ eo my people; but behold, we fear not your threat ngs; never - to you Hd ling theless, 1 will grant to exchange prisoners yen U : rightly ~ Pea. and ‘subject yourselves to be governed murdered hy Amalickiah:; New Moroni caused that Laman (Noth menier of his Hien should go forth unto the cuards Were over the Nephites. Now the Nephites were cuarded OS ‘3 cas them of their right to the government, when it rightly And now behold, if ye will lay down yours" unto them. ' ; : 9 nom | And it came to pass that they found one, whose name aman; and he was one of the servants of the king which was was Peereh ‘ er ie ae that — wrong 4 40 I or beho x insomuch Se thers did their brethren, a armies, for {fear not your threatnings. men, that perhaps he might find a man which was a descend- ‘ato Laman among them. vf, Amalickiah, whom ye have murdered. Behold, Lal oi my his blood upon you; yea, and I will come upon J : aa “ ” am Ammoron, OG ope f 2 angry, and he wrote another ae Moroni; and these are the words which he wrote, ee er the king of the Lamanites ; I am the ui would not grant unto me mine epis- tle, behold,I will-give’ unto him according to my words ; yea, Iwill seek death among them, until they shall sue for peace. And now it came to pass that when Moroni had said these Words, he caused that a search should be made among his a : ¥ Guat this epistle, he was ohers ; “amdis Ammoron sed 8 Sd Now it came to pass that Ammoron, when he ee re people of the Nephites. leader of th * I am a ~. Moroni; ~~ Lam arr I close my epistle. ROSTER NES ’ Now Behold, ee and we will seek our land, the lands of our first inheritance behold, now, I am a bold Lamanite. ~ seek to destroy us more, we will seek to destroy you; yet And this war hath been waged, to avenge their wrongs, and to maintain, and to obtain their rights to the gdvernment; and I close my epistle to Moroni. (¥/ a Se Ye Now it came to pass that when Moroni had received this epistle, he was more angry, because he knew that Ammoron iad a perfect knowledge of his fraud; yea, he knew that Ammoron knew that it was not a just cause that bad caused him lowage a war against the people of Nephi. And he said, Beold, I will not exchange prisoners with Ammoron, save he will withdraw his purpose, as I have stated in my epistle ; for Iwill not grant unto him that he shall have any more power than what he hath got. Behold, I know the place where the Lamanites doth guard my people, which they have taken pris- ate )! J But beho we have only sought to defend ourselves. rusalem. 4 ger, and also my people; ye have sought to murder 7 x of Zoram, whom your fathers pressed and brought out of Je- i ‘he life for life; andI will give you battle, even until you are des Behold, I am in m) " troyed from off the face of the earth. is a Devil and a hell, behold, will he not send you there, to dwell with my brother, which ye have murdered, which ye have hinted that he hath gone to such a place? But behold, these things mattereth not. | am Ammoron, and a descendant . low you even into your own land, which is the land of our first inheritance; yea, and it shall be blood for blood; yea that he hath made us as well as you ; and if it so be that there ad And behold, if ye do not this, } will come it, | will exchange. against you with my armies; yea, even| will arm my womel and my children, and I will come against you, and | will fol- 379 peti thou art a child of hell; therefore 1 will close my epistle, by telling you that I will not exchange prisoners, save it be on conditions that ye will deliver up a man, and his wife, and his children, for one prisoner; if this be the case that ye will do ALMA. e* 7 soon be visited with death, for we will retain our cities and our lands; yea, and we will maintain our religion and the eause of our God. But behold, it supposeth me thatI talk to you concerning these things in vain ; or it supposeth me that OF SE OF em. BOOK |
