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Show . TERRITORY OF UTAH. 851 their merciless deeds may exceed anything- known to the history of, Indian barbarity. There is no part of our extended country more exposed to asvage ferocity than this great western thoroughfare, and there ia perhaps no class of our people more deserving the f o s t e r i ~c are of govern-ment than the emigrant citizen who, with a patriotic reliance on the stron apm of his country, seeks, through privations and dangers, to rear % er standard and establish her institutions upon her most dis-taut borders. Yet upon this road the lives and property of thousands of these citizens are annually exposed to the fkrocity of a race of men whose cruelty is scarcely a stride removed from that of cannibalism. But I desire to allude more particularly to the course which has been pursued towards the Indians in the immediate vicinity of the settle-ments in Utah. Raving 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 he realized, and which, instead of bettering their condition, tended rather to lull them into supineness, and leave them in the end in a worse condition than they were when we found them, I was admonished of the neczssity of adopting some more practical course for their civilition. Prior to my report of December 31, 1855, it bmme evident that our relations with the Utahs were of the 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 cro s, there is scarcely a doubt that a general state of hostilities won1 i' have been commenced before this time, exposing the exterior settlements to the most savage havoc, and rendering the prmemtion of the United Shtes snrveyain the Territory impossible without the aid of an armed force. Bnt, without authority from government for making perma-nent arrangements of this kind, and without funds to meet expendi-tures thus incurred, theadoption of auch a course was, to say the least of it, assuming high responsibilities. But the only apology I shall offer is, that the circumstances left me without an alternative. As early as the months of February and March, I proceeded to purchase stock and seed grain, with the view of carrying out my en-gagements with them in good faith, but owing to the severity of the I winter, and the lateness of spring, nothing of importance was done prior to the 1st of April, except to divert their attention from the in- I dncements which Tin-tic, the war chief, and his band were then offering, who had effected their escape into the desert with some hun-dred and flfty head of cattle, upon which they were then feasting 1 their allies. The lands selected on the Spanish Fork, being covered with s dense growth of brush wood, were more expensive to clear and lough than I had anticipated ; besides, the construction of a canal bringing the waters of the river upon the land for irrigating pur-poses, was a greater undertaking than at firat supposed. But a capa-cious canal has been completed, rendering a large tract of fertile land 1 mceptible of irrigation and cultivation. Its completion, however, was so late in the aeason, that a large portion of the crop seeded this |