He wished Capt Van Vliet to report at Washington Just
as things were here He said I have seen the suffering
of this people through the persecutions of the people of
the United States for the last 25 years and I will not
bear it any longer. we have always treated the United
States officers well but they have constantly lied abo-
ut us & tried to destroy us all the time. we would still
have received their govornors & officers if they had
sent them here without an Army but inasmuch as
they are now disposed to send an Armey here to
hold us still while others run their read hot Iron
into us & then kill us we will now say that we will
not have neither their soldiers Armies or officers
any more here at all, and you may tel them so we will
Just fight for our liberty & rights from this day forth whenever
I think of letting their troops come in here and their
officers I can see nothing but death & darkness before me and
before this people but when I say they shall not come here
light bursts upon me and I can see life before me & this
people and this is the way all of this people feel. the intention
of the Government is to destroy us & this we are determin
they shall not do. If the government of the United
States persists in sending Armies to destroy us in the name
of the Lord we shall conquer them. if the Government
calls for volunteers in Calafornia & the people turn out to come
to destroy us they will find their own buildings in flames before
they get far from home & so throughout the United States
again if they commence the war I shall not hold the Indians
still by the [w]rist any longer for white men to shoot at them but
I shall let them go ahead & do as they please and I shall
carry the war into their own land and they will want to let
out the Job before they get half through and even should an
Armey of 50000 men get into this valley when they got
here they would find nothing but a Barren waste we
should burn evry thing that was wood & evry acre of
grass they would burn and you may tell them that they
must bring with them their forage for their animals
for they will not find any thing to eat in this Territory
when they come, again you may tell them they must stop
all emigration across this continent for they cannot travel
in safety the Indians will kill all that attempt it. You may
tell Judge Douglass that when He comes here again to enter
into a treaty of peace we shall dictate those terms of peace
& not him as He did before.

Capt Van Vleit said that
if our Government pushed forward this thing & made war
upon us He should withdraw from the Army for he would
not have a hand in sheding the Blood of American citizens
After closing HeHis remarks President Young said God had
set up his kingdom upon the Earth & it was here & the Lord
would sustain that kingdom & he would destroy all that
fought against it And if the Armies of the United [States] came
against us the Lord would permit them to be destroyed at the
close of the remarks the President said to Capt Van Vleit as citizens
we are friends & shook hands in a Friendly manner and

He wished Capt Van Vliet to report at Washington Just as things were here He said I have seen the suffering of this people through the Persecutions of the people of the United States for the last 25 years and I will not bear it any longer. we have always treated the United States officers well but they have constantly lied about us & tried to destroy us all the time. we would still have received their govornors & officers if they had sent them here without an Army but inasmuch as they are now disposed to send an Armey here to hold us still while others run their read hot Iron into us & then kill us we will now say that we will not have neither their soldiers Armies or officers any more here at all, and you may tel them so we will Just fight for our liberty & rights from this day forth whenever I think of letting their troops come in here and their officers I can see nothing but death & darkness before me and before this people but when I say they shall not come here light bursts upon me and I can see life before me & this people and this is the way all of this people feel. the intention of the Government is to destroy us & this we are determin they shall not do. If the government of the United States persists in sending Armies to destroy us in the name of the Lord we shall conquer them. if the Government calls for volunteers in Calafornia & the people turn out to come to destroy us they will find their own buildings in flames before they get far from home & so throughout the United States again if they commence the war I shall not hold the Indians still by the wrist any longer for white men to shoot at them but I shall let them go ahead & do as they please and I shall carry the war into their own land and they will want to let out the Job before they get half through and even should an Armey of 50000 men get into this valley when they got here they would find nothing but a Barren waste we should burn evry thing that was wood & evry acre of grass that would burn and you may tell them that they must bring with them their forage for their animals for they will not find any thing to eat in this Territory when they come, again you may tell them they must stop all emigration across this continent for they cannot travel in safety the Indians will kill all that attempt it. You may tell Judge Douglass that when He comes here again to enter into a treaty of peace we shall dictate those terms of peace & not him as He did before.

Capt Van Vleit said that if our Government pushed forward this thing & made war upon us He should withdraw from the Army for he would not have a hand in sheding the Blood of American Citizens After closingHis remarks President Young said God had set up his kingdom upon the Earth & it was here & the Lord would sustain that kingdom & he would destroy all that fought against it And if the Armies of the United States came against us the Lord would permit them to be destroyed at the close of the remarks the President said to Capt Van Vleit as citizens we are friends & shook hands in a Friendly manner and