. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. ?—.•rvT^tS^-. 1 :^m^ 512 HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN case prepare ourselves to kill his, though for this we were to be threatenedby death. The most convenient manner of dealing with us would be to establishus in one place where we might live and labor in peace. All State obliga-tions in the form of taxes we would pay, only we cannot be soldiers. If the Government were to find it impossible to consent to this, thenlet it give us the right of emigration into one of the foreign countries. Wewould willingly go to England or (which is mo
. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. ?—.•rvT^tS^-. 1 :^m^ 512 HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN case prepare ourselves to kill his, though for this we were to be threatenedby death. The most convenient manner of dealing with us would be to establishus in one place where we might live and labor in peace. All State obliga-tions in the form of taxes we would pay, only we cannot be soldiers. If the Government were to find it impossible to consent to this, thenlet it give us the right of emigration into one of the foreign countries. Wewould willingly go to England or (which is most convenient) to America,where we have a great number of brothers in the Lord Jesus Christ. From the fulness of my soul I pray the Lord for the welfare of thyfamily. The servant of Christ, Petek. (living in exile in the Government of Tobolsk). Perhaps this petition may have had something to do with the ultimategrant of permission to the Doukhobors to leave the country, but until thevery last their sufferings for conscience sake were extreme. So manyof their
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