We
were eight days in making the journey (80 miles), and it was
pitiful to behold the women & children who suffered exceedingly
as they were all obliged to walk, with the exception of the
sick.... I had three regular ministers of the gospel in my party,
and ... we have preaching or prayer meeting every night while
on the march, and you may well imagine that under the peculiar
circumstances of the case, among those sublime mountains and
in the deep forest with the thunder often roaring in the distance,
that nothing could be more solemn and impressive. And I always
looked on with ... awe, lest their prayers which I felt... ascending
to Heaven and calling for justice to Him who alone can &
will grant it... [might] fall upon my guilty head as one of
the instruments of oppression.
