Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-12-13
The Mormons and Indians.

Late accounts from the Great Salt Lake City Civ.
details Of several affairs with the Indians in the out
skirts of the settlement, in some Of which Mormons
were sOrprized and kIed,and in.others the Indians
were attacked and routed with more or less loss.
Governor Brigham Young has recently Issued p,
address, in relation to The Indian difficulties OCCUPY
ing several columns of the Utah papers, which rs a
great curiosity We make the following character.
istic extract from il:
Ifyou we're TO see Walker Ia Chief Of one Of the
most troublesome tribes, I do you think Won would
Kill him2 You that want to kill him, will give
you mission to that effect. great MANY NAV
appear very bold, and desire TO 90 and bring me
Walkers head but they want all the people in Utah
to go with them. ] could point out thousands in this
Territory who would follow these Indians, and con-
tue to follow them, and leave the cattle TO be drove
of by the emgrants, and the grain to perish, and
thus subject the whole community to the rayages
Of famine and IFS consequent evils. ] have been
leased, and leased by men who will come 10 me and
say: "Jus give me 25, so, or 100 men, and ! will
60 aud fetch Walkers head" | do not want his
head, but wish him to do all the Devil wants him
to do, so far as the Lord will suffer him and the
Devil ito chastse this people for their good
say TO the Indians, as have often said to the
mob, go you length. You say you are going to kill
US all of. You say you are going TO obliierae the
Latter Day Saints, and wipe them from the earth.
Why don't you do il, you poor miserable curses2--
The mob only had power 10 drive them TO their du-
", and TO remember the Lord their God and that is
all the Indians can do. This people are worldly
minded; they want TO get rich in earthly substance
and are apt to forget their God, the pit from which
they were dug, and the rock from which they we're
hewn, every man turning 10 his own way. Seeming.
y the Lord IL Christening until we rrn and do hs
will. What are you willing to du3 Would Won be
willing 10 build Tort and al 20 in it 10 ye7 tell
you, you would have hell Of your own, and devils
enough to carry il Do yon puppose.you will ever
see the time you would do thai, and live al peace
with each other, and have the spirit NJ the Lord
enough 10 look each other ia the face, and saw with
a heart full Of kindness, "GoOd morning, kary.0
or Show do you do, Mariaq" You will be whpned
until yon have the spirit Of the Lord Jesus Christ
sufficiently 10 love your brethren and sisters freely,
men, women, and childrenl Until you can live At
peace with yohrseyes.an with every family around
you; untilyou can treat every child as though IL
were the tender Offspring OF your own body; every
man as your brolher, and every woman as yoor
sister; and until the young persons the old with
respect due to their parents, and all learn shake
hands with a warm heart, and a friendly grip, and
say God bless you from morning ill evening; until
each person can say 81 love you all; have no evil
N my heart TO nm individual; | can then send my
children 10 school with yours, and your chi
dren when they do wrong, as though they were my
own, and am willing you should correct mine, and
letps live together until are holy and sanci6ed
society" 1r-