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Show INDIAN HOSTILITIES AND TEEACHEEY. 307 nity presents itself, killing and stealing children from the wandering bands that he has any power over, which also has its tendency to extinguish the race. Walker is hemmed in, be dare not go into California again. Dare he go e,ast to the Snakes ? No. Dare he go north ? No, for they would rejoice to kill him. Here he is, penned up in a small compass, surrounded by his enemies ; and now the elders of Israel long to eat up, as it were, him and his little- band. What are they ? They are a set of cursed fools. Do you not rather pity them ? They dare not move over a certain boundary, on any of the four points of the compass, for fear of-being killed; then they are killing one another, and making war upon this people that could- use them up, and they not be a breakfast spell for them if they felt so disposed. See their condition, and I ask you, do you not pity them ? From all appearance, there will not be an Indian left, in a short time, to steal a horse. Are they not fools, under these circumstances, to make war with their best friends ? Do you want to run after them to kill them ? I say, let them alone, for peradventure God may pour out His Spirit upon them, and show them the error of their ways. We may yet have to fight them, though they are of the house of Israel to whom the message of salvation is sent; for their wickedness is so great, that the Lord Almighty cannot get at the hearts of the older ones to teach them saving principles. Joseph Smith said we should have to fight them. He said," When this people mingle among the Lamanites, if they do not bow down in obedience to the Gospel, they will hunt them until there is but a small remnant of them left upon this continent." They have either got to bow down to the Gos- |