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44 LETTER FROM PRESIDENT B. YOUNG. At this time we had established as good a form of govern-ment among the Santa Clara Indians, as their circumstances would permit. They worked for a living, and promised to be honest. If anyone stole, he either paid a price for what he had taken, or was stripped, tied to a tree and whipped, according to the magnitude of the offense. The Indians did the whipping, while I generally dictated the number and severity ofthe lashes. In the winter of 1856- 7, after the Indians had been trying for some time to follow our counsels, they said to me, " We cannot be good ; we must be Piutes. We want you to be kind to us. It may be that some of our children will be good, but we want to follow our old customs. ' ' They again began to paint themselves, and to abuse their women, as they had done before we went among them. Up to this time, Elder R. C. Allen had been president of the Southern Indian Mission, and had generally resided at Harmony. He had given me charge of the settlement on the Santa Clara Creek. The following letter shows his release, and my appointment to take his place, and exhibits the Indian policy of President Brigharn Young : ' ' PRESIDENT' s OFFICE, Great Salt Lake City, August 4, 1857. " ELDER JACOB HAMBLIN: You are hereby appointed to succeed Elder R. C. Allen ( whom I have released) as presi-dent of the Santa Clara Indian Mission. I wish you to enter upon the duties of your office immediately. " Continue the conciliatory policy towards the Indians which I have ever commended, and seek by works of righteousness, to obtain their love and confidence. Omit promises where you are not sure you can fill them ; and seek to unite the hearts of the brethren on that mission, and let all under your direction be united together in holy bonds of love and unity. 1 ' All is peace here, and the Lord is eminently blessing our labors ; grain is abundant, and our cities are alive with the busy hum of industry.