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Show 90 " I desire to allude .. to the course which has been pursued towards the Indians in the immediate vicinity of the settlements of Utah. Having become fully satisfied of the impracticability of sustaining peaceful relations with these tribes, by a course of policy which, at every step of its progress, was calculated to fill their minds with expectations that could not be realized, and which instead of bettering their condition, tended rather to lull then into supineness, and leave them in the end in a worse condition than they were when we found them, I waa admonished of the necessity of adopting some more practical course for their civilization. " Prior to my report of Deoember 13, 1855, it beoame evident that our relations with the Utahs were of a most delicate character, and but for the timely intervention of propositions which I made them for designating certain tracts of land as their future permanent homes, and to assist them in opening farms and putting in crops, there is soarcely a doubt that a general state of hostilites would have been commenced before this time, exposing |