Government to purchase their lands. This committee is therefore led to take a brief view of the South and Western part of North America, together with the Floridas, , West India Islands and the adjacent Islands to the Gulf of Mexico, together with the Lamanites bordering on the United Territories from Green Bay to the Mexican Gulf, all crying with one voice through the medium of their cheifs. give us an understanding of your doctrine and principles for we perceive that your ways are equal and your righteousness far exceeds the righteousness of all the Missionaries that we have yet become acquainted with, that your conduct with one another is like that of ours [p. [14]]