we will not endure any more from these cursed scoundrels. He would rather the would stop, and we go to the wilderness to get our endowment than that another innocent man should be killed. If the time was come for the Saints to go forth and avenge the blood of our prophets and redeem Zion he would take one hundred men and sweep the State of so that there should not be a man left to tell the tale and he would not lose ten men.
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arose to offer a resolution as follows:— “Resolved that a committee of three be appointed to examine the geographical situation of the Southern and Western country and that they report to the next meeting the location of the country West of and West of the mountains, the amount of population, the government, and [p. [106]]