Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On the the day on which we had concluded
to return we met the citizens to agree upon electing officers
President Young said he cared nothing about the feelings of the
nation who had driven us out. We should not follow in the
path of the political foolery. We should have one candidate
and but one as delegate to Congress. We can speak our
feelings freely here but when we vote let it be for the
candidate of our choice. Should we have two candidates
and they have about equal votes the United States would know
we had appostatized from our faith and union or the^at^ we
were trying to decieve them. We shall stand better in their
eyes to take our own indipendant course and act united^ly^.
If we have but one track the Saints will walk on it: if
we had two tracks there would be plenty of devils to run
on them. If we begin right we shall go right we
shall go right if we begin wrong we shall go wrong^.^
The United States are affraid of our union and so
is all the world
I^n^ speaking of the Indians he said
these Indians are the descendants of the old Gadianton
robbers who infested the mountains for more than
a thousand years
We dined together in the city of
