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Show 336 WESTERN WILDS. But if he comes, we'll have some fun, Du dah! To see him and his juries run, Duh dah ! Du dah day ! CHOKUS: Then let us be on hand By Brigham Young to stand; And if our enemies do appear, We'll sweep them from the land. " Old squaw- killer Harney is on the way, Duh dah! The Mormon people for to slay, Duh dah! Duh dah day! Now if he comes, the truth I'll tell, Duh dah! Our boys will drive him down to hell! Duh dah! Duh dah day!" But again were faith and hope vain. When the spring sun had dissolved the snow- packs from the passes of the Wasatch, the army entered the valley, while 30,000 Mormons were on their flight south-ward. Col. Thomas L. Kane had entered Utah from the south ; the Peace Commissioners, Powell and McCulloch, had promised amnesty, and Governor Cumming had entered Salt Lake City. But all in vain. The people continued their mad flight southward, while Gov. Gum-ming stood by the road- side, tears rolling down his cheeks at sight of their misery, and implored them to remain. It was midsummer be-fore any considerable number returned; with them Briarly and his family. But the mad proceedings of two years had not been without their influence on our friends. Thomas James began to ask himself, in all seriousness, if what he had witnessed could be the result of Di-vine guidance ; and in Utah it is emphatically true, that he who hesi-tates is lost to Mormonism. And now began that terrible conflict in the soul of the young man, through which more than one apostate has passed with tears of agony, with doubts and tremblings, with days of painful self- examination, and nights of restless tossing and vain de-bate. Could it be that all was a delusion ? That his father had died on the plains, that he and those near to him were laboring and suffer-ing and all for a dismal lie? Losses of friends, property, honors, all can be borne, and the strong man rise above them ; but who can tell the heart- rending agony of the devotee who has lost his God f He scarcely knew why, but in no long time he found himself in a small circle of those who suffered in the same way. Not that they sought each other, or confessed their secret doubts at once ; but little by little they grew to understand each other. They labored to convince them- |