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Show 67 Chapter VII. THE UNITED STATES AND HORMOH HOSTILITIES While it is not the purpose of this thesis to relate the political history of Utah, a knowledge of the relations between the United States and Mormon governments is necessary to the understanding of the Indian situation. The Utah war of 1857 may be regarded both as an aoute expression of federal and Mormon hostility and as a phase of the Indian problem. This war was the culmination of the antagonism between the Americans and Mormons, noticeable in the reports of the Indian agents in Utah, an antagonism which Increased as time went on with the Indian land title remaining unextinguished by the government. The Land Title. As early as 1852, the Mormon legislature sent a memorial to Congress requesting the survey of the southern boundary of Utah. In 1853 we again find allusion to Utah's needs In the President's message to Congress. President Pierce recommended that the 1 Utah Territory: Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials, March 6, 1852, p. 405. |