the jurisdiction of the we are safe, for the present, and that is all we ask. But in regard to our final location, it was Josephs mind that the head of was the place for us where we could have commercial advantages, but he also proposed other places for our consideration, but that was his mind. As to the distance we have brethren in the church who have ships that we can have to bring the saints in from all parts of the world. As to suffering any more of the oppression and tyranny of the gentiles, he is just bent, and sworn to it, that just so soon as we can secure our women and children and put them where they will be safe, we will put our warriors into the field and never cease our operations untill we have swept the scoundrels off from the face of the earth. In regard to the course these brethren shall take [p. [140]]