her Higbee said:

"I have the evidence of God's approval of our mission. It is
God's will that we carry out our instructions to the letter." He
then said to me: "Brother Lee, I am ordered by President Haight
to inform you that you shall receive a crown of celestial glory
for your faithfulness, and your eternal joy shall be complete." I
was much shaken by this promise.

The meeting was then addressed by me. I spoke in about this
language:

"Brethren, we have been sent to perform a duty. It is a duty that
we owe God and our Church and people. The orders are that the
emigrants must die. Our leaders speak with inspired tongues, and
their words come from the God of Heaven. We have no right to
question what they have commanded us to do; it is our duty to
obey. On Wednesday night two of the emigrants got out of camp and
started back to Cedar City for assistance to withstand the Indian
attacks; they had reached Richards' Springs when they met
Brothers William C. Stewart, Joel White, and Benjamin Arthur,
three of our Danite brethren from Cedar City. The men stated
their business to the brethren, and as their horses were drinking
at the spring Brothers Stewart, feeling for the glory of God and
the upbuilding of the Kingdom of God on earth, shot and killed
one of the emigrants, a young man by the name of Aden. When Aden
fell from his horse Brother Joel White shot and wounded the other
Gentile; but he got away, and returned to his camp and reported
that the Mormons were helping the Indians in all they were doing.
Now the emigrants will report these facts in California if we let
them go. We must kill them all, and our orders are to get them
out by stratagem if no other thing can be done to put them in our
power."

The plan of action had been agreed upon, and it was this: The
emigrants were to be decoyed from their stronghold under a
promise of protection. Brother Bateman was to carry a flag of
truce and demand a parley, and then I was to go and arrange the
terms of surrender. I was to demand that all the children who
were so young they could not talk should be put into a wagon, and
the wounded were likewise to be put into another. Then the arms
and ammunition of the emigrants must be put into a third; I
agreeing that the Mormons would protect the emigrants from the
Indians and conduct them to Cedar City in safety, where they
would be safe until an opportunity came for sending them to
California.

It was understood that whe