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Show and agreed to meet me at Fort Bridgevonfchundred and thirteen miles southeast of Salt Lake City on the 1st of October-- I also sent Word to Sou-ei-ette to meet me there with his Warrior, promising to protect him, accordingly I repaired to the Fort and they met me there as per agreement-- These nations have been at Utah for many years and there seemed to a deadly hatred between them, after a Council of several hours during which time recounted their alledged causes of quarrel, I told them their Great Father wished them to be at Peace with all the different Nations of Indians, and with the Whites, and that they must not steal, which after smoking the Calumet of peace again, they all clasped hands and agreed to ? The Indians complained bitterly of the treatment they had received from the Mormon Settlers, from the time they first entered the Territory up to the present, such as driving them off their lands, stealing their stock etc. I can perhaps convey their ideas better by giving you the language of the Old Chief Sou-ei-ette, who raising himself up to his full height said to me, American-good! Mormon-no good! American-friend--Mormon-Kill-Steal- The Chief said they claimed all the lands upon which were settled by the Mormons and that they were driving them further every year, making use of their soil and what little timber there was, and expressed a wish of their Great Father was so powerfull, |