By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further.

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.