United States Army Colonel Alexander's letter threatens Church members with extermination if they oppose Army.
11th I spent most of the day in the office I corrected a sermon
for publication, read History Proof and c. I saw Brother
Holebrook In the evening He said two men had been killed
in the south by the Indians and that Bell and his company
had hard work to get along among them. Elder G. A. Smith
arived in the Evening called upon the president then called upon
me a short time in company with ^Bro Wall^
who has Just returned from a Mission in Australia brought
a company of Saints with him to Calafornia He there met
Dr Andrews and other Apostate mormons and they gathered
a mob and tried to kill him But He boldly maintained
his ground & got away from them, and came on with
the mail and his company is coming on Behind
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