to influence us to say we will do thus and so and we will not do any other way. If men are set to lead a people it is not for them to consult and satisfy their own private feelings, but to use all the stratagem and cunning they are capable of to save the people. The mob are afraid that we will come upon them and execute vengeance upon them, and as we live and as the Lord lives it will be said, “your fears are come upon you”. We cant fix up stakes to go by, but we will have to act according to the circumstances all the time. If comes here with a hundred men to get us to to get into collision with the mob, and we keep away it will defeat them. We dont want the to [p. [375]]