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Show 80 June 30, 1257 " You have studiously endeavored to impress on the minds of the Indiana that tnere was a difference between your own sect, usually known as Mormons and the government, and other citizens of the United Sti. tes; that the fencer were their friends and the latter thoir enemies. ... ." You have been denouncing this government and threatening an armed resistance to the authorities eent out by the President. Indeed, unless you . and your coadjutor are most grossly misrepresented and your language misquoted, the appearance of those authorities among you is all" that is necessary to prompt you to an overt act of treason.".... " The troops are under the direction of the President and it is fair to presume that ho would not send them to help Utah Territory unless there wa3 a necessity for so doing « . nd if it be true that wherever the greatest number of troops are, there ere to be found the greatest number of hostile Indians, it arises from, the fact that the troops are necessary at such places to preserve the peace and to keep the Indians in subjection.... |