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Show applying to Brigham Young for a passport-the ultimative of organizing an Indian escort suggested itself to any mind: the first conception of which grew out of the deep concern these untutored creatures had, for sometime manifested for my safety, and I was no more inclined to avail myself of this suggestion from the fact that several of the Chiefs of the Uinta Country were then on a visit at the farm soliciting me to accompany them to Utah Valley for the purpose of inspecting the adaptation of its climate and soil for the cultivation of grain, as they had become much pleased with the cause of policy we were pursuing with the Indians in Utah County. On the morning of the 27th ult. while I was yet discussing the prosperity of this resolution in my mind, some half dozen of the natives rushed into my office room exclaiming, friend! friend! the Mormons will kill you, and pointed to the window on the eastern side of the house. On looking out, to my surprise I saw some 75 or 100 armed dragoons stationed in the road about a mile from the house, and as I did not manifest quite as much concern as the Indians thought the occasion justified they gathered hold of me and gave me to understand that they would not let me stay any longer. I commenced arranging my official papers so as to be able to remove them instantly if necessary, for I did not understand what it all |