. . . we shall never be ruled over by them from this day forth . . . You ladies, too, will certainly have to do your part, or back out. I told you last Saturday to arm yourselves; and if you cannot do it any other way, sell some of your fine bonnets, fine dresses, and buy yourselves a good dirk, a pistol, or some other instrument of war. Arm your boys and arm yourselves universally, and that, too, with the weapons of war; . . . if we live our religion, and do as we are told, those men will never come over those mountains; for we shall slay the poor devils before they get there.