“I wish such characters [outsiders] would let the boys have a chance to lay their hands on them.
“If men come here and do not behave themselves, they will not only find the Danites, whom they talk so much about, biting the horses’ heels, but the scoundrels will find something biting their heels.”
Note: This speech was delivered only two months prior to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which happened on 11 September 1857. Genesis 49:17 reads: “Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.”
