| Show I 1 RE REMAKES NA by elder george A smith nowery bowery 1 sanday afternoon september 13 1857 i iett BErOa TED EJ V LONG the last tait time I 1 believe belleve brethren aad lad and sisters that thai I 1 had bad the privilege vile 96 of speaking speak ipg ipp from this stand was the day previous to my roy starting for dor the southern country we were then expect ind ihL a visit from a very formidable force forc directly from the h e stats of missouri it waked up in mym my mind ind the feelings that 1 I tied lied to tor have say from ten to twenty years ngo ago ago in hearin bearin hearing 9 the constan t annoy ance anca of an approaching enemy and according accord ilig to we tia tib report which has been published ofay of may ray marks I 1 talked rather strong but one ona tiling is evident if lad iad not talk taik strong bistrong it was wag not because I 1 dla did not feel feol on the occasion cashion oc i 1 I 1 left the next morning morning aad and we bended wended n ded dea my way southward I 1 visited v cited jj he different settlements hurriedly until I 1 reached parowan carowan in the ahe c county of iron the place of the first settlement in il i the southern part of the territory wilsa wilen I 1 arrived therm there it appeared that some i 90 me rumo rudof ron mon eon I spirit of 1 d B i i 1 i surprise air lir prise prisa had bad reached thein for there were active operations pe rations going oil on seemingly preparing for some hing that was near at hand As I 1 drove in at he gate I 1 beheld the military on oil the square ex and was immediately surrounded by the iron battalion which seemed to have held its awn very well s since ince it was wag organized zed sed in that place lace V they had assembled together under the im that their country was about to be in abed by an army froin from the united states and hat chat it was necessary to make preparation by ex each others arms and to make every thing ready by preparing to strike M W any diorec ion lon conand and march to as might be necessary in the usie defence of their homes As it will bal well recollected I 1 was the president of he the company that first made the tile settlement there I 1 was received with every feeling if f enthusiasm and I 1 never found them in better spirits they were will anny moment to touch ire lre ire lre to their homes and tilde themselves inthe mountains noun tai tak ns and to defend their country to the last extremity now therb there had been no such as that when I 1 went away but tile tiie spirit seemed to burn in n my bones to visit all these settlements in that tbt bouthern region col dame was wag about organic ng the military of that district under the he law of last winter As the col was going along to or anize the military I 1 got into the carriage ind and went on a mission of to preach to the pro nto peo neo ae ale when I 1 got to 10 cedar I 1 found the battalions on parade para vand land the col talked to them and completed acted the new organization I 1 I 1 on the follo following wim wlm day I 1 addressed the saints at heir meeting house I 1 never had greater liberty of speech to proclaim to tile the people my feelings and views and in spite of all I 1 could do I 1 found myself preaching a military discourse and I 1 told them in case caso of invasion it might ba be necessary to set fire to our property and hide bide in the mountains mount ains dins ad and leave our enemies to do the tha best they could it seemed to be hailed with the same enthusiasm that it was at baroun parowan Pa roan rowan that was the same sabbath that br young was preaching the same kind 0 of doctrine and alid I 1 am perfectly perfect fy satisfied that all the tha districts jn in the southern country would have given him their unanimous vote ote I 1 I 1 then went to harmony br dame dam 1 e preached tp to the military and I 1 to the civil powers and I 1 must say that my discourse partook of the tho military more mora than the tha religious but it seemed that iwas I 1 was perfectly perfecio per fecil y running over with it and lien llen hence e I 1 had bad to say som something ethino about it I 1 then wet wei went I 1 t over a lovely country and past over peters Petr ls leap leip and some other such lovely places it is rather rough but I 1 could not but admire its extreme beauty and I 1 think if the lord had got up all the tho rough rocky and the broken fragments of the tho earth in one ona ho he might have drooped drori ped it down d wn there when I 1 reached tho the cotton country I 1 had bad pre pr pravio previously ay learned that they were failing in their attempts to naise raisa cotton and that the waters of the rio virgin were po poisoning i sonim bonim the cotton but I 1 learned that the seed h had d not come como up but what had come up perhaps one third of it was exceedingly ir fine e the difficulty was that their cotton ily was ll 11 planted very late and the sun heated the sand for the soil is nothing but the red sand of sahara sahira sah lra ira they planted ia in the sand as there was no where else to plant it and the sun was scorching it but they found that all alt that was necessary was to keep the sand wet and when they poured on 6 the water the cotton grew and old cotton growers told me that they had never seen a better prospect for cotton for the time it had been planted in the world and this is the condition of things in hat that country and the prospect is that they will li have pretty good cotton and anti about the third thud of a crop and the next year they will bo be able to raise lots of cotton for they will be there early enough and have seed that can ba be depended upon the corn in tuise taise field which was planted early was 18 feet high if the sand was not wet it would all blow biow away tile the country seemed very hot lot to me otherwise I 1 enjoyed the tile visit very well weli but the tha brethren insisted that it was a very cool ca spell while I 1 was there I 1 preached to them in washington city and I 1 thank the tha lurd lard for the desert holes hoies that we live in and for all theland that can be watered in all ail arn am to but hut h few hundred acres there are but a few roads wide that can be watered in a place but I 1 teil tell tel tei you when the tiie day comes that the saints need hills to be covered w with ith vegetation they have only to falth faith and god will turn the them m hito into fruitful fields we washington in ilie the night and tile tha brethren tou tola me if I 1 had seen the tha roads I 1 would not travel th them ern but 1 I oid told old them I 1 did not want to see gee the roads ro fd for fori 1 I was determined to go ahe id we traveled trav elid eika 10 miles and camped by a small spring called aliens Al leblo spring erlna some indians ook took our horses horsek we told them we were a afraid they would get into botne corn fields they told us they would put them where they would get plenty to eat eab e at and do ao no mischief the indians brought t our oil oli r horas early lir hirthe ilie morning and we arrived at iau iua ite oba wik bap ils lis as the indians call fort fart clavana ciara and ha found cheif ther crops cuffe I 1 agra ng nor for of water I 1 saw beau beautiful t ifal indigo indigo cotton and aad corn and the stalks of the corn weye were wee dry while the use ears were green and aitto fot fit to boil boll k we alo aio aiso ala lied had ii a glorious inter interview vew in this as in other wun tiie tile the natives of the desert we remained ladr the day and then hen proceeded down J acoba tt T t a ift cent kanyon to where aj hie e california rod jw irs s tile tiia slag sing S sanu sang lag vau clara and end nd thon followay fol ool towa lowa w un th hsu ta tit clara ciara lara iara in tite ille ho dark of the nig nir inan river nver upon whose wt ogil banki ank auk milij itrano 0 de desperation pe ration have been en 6 1 iced wed f f 4 I 1 0 e I 1 1 nihl we vre pre derl y som some 1 ig jj 9 or tile hie D t v hit bit t wern b 0 v ai na was wag i noo soo hoo won i ni lit liti th y tok t ok c f our 9 ak cuir duik as u strop gires fires and us corn and made madeus us as comfortable as ai they could and ind 1 I never ate better corn or better mel mei melons rn s i in n my life we stopped over night with 11 eulem eelem in and d not one of them asked me ro for a thing which is is remarkable as the tile indians are intolerable beggars but I 1 was wag treated as well as if I 1 had been among the saints and I 1 never enjoyed a treat better we pursued our vis visit t to the mountain meadows and there were kindly treated by the f fam am alies or the missionaries who lived at this place on account of the abundant grass for their stock I 1 then went vent to penter and anti there addres addressed sled a house full fall of people in the evening a and aud nd then theil proceeded to cedar the tho next day they had iad heart heard they were ivere going to have an army of f dragoons dra ce down from the east on to the town the major seer seemed fied ried very sung sang nine about tile the matter I 1 asked hirale this rumor should prove true if i lie he was not going to wait for instructions he replied alie d there was wa s no time tune to wait for any instruct illon and lie he was going to take lake his battalion and use them up before they could get down through tile tiie kenyons kan for said lie he if they are coming here hers they are coming for no good I 1 admired his grit but bue I 1 thou thought glit he be would not have the privilege of using them up for want of an opportunity I 1 aiso also visited the saints at par and preached to them and Iii lil every place felt the same spirit I 1 then came over to beaver which is a basw settlement and the day previus bul bui an indian came in and tod told them there were shod horses tracks tricks at a spring over the big mountains about 20 29 milea miles to the tile east major farnsworth suppo supposing bing sing that a bad body of men in the neighborhood and that these were the tracks of the scouts they immediately went vent over the mountains abd Abil tra traced ed the horses hortes tracks until they ascertained they came from Pa parowan carowan Paro rowan vvan I 1 do not dof know whether the tho inhabitants of parowan carowan intended to whip a regiment of dragoons or not but it ie is is certain bertlin they thoy thelara are wide awake and are i not going to be taken by surprise there was only ole one oie thing that I 1 dreaded and that was a spirit in the ha breasts of cometo some to wish that their enemies might ani t come co m i e and give them a chance to fight and take vengeance for the thi cruelties cruel ties hat that had llad been inflicted upon us in the states they did feel that they hated to owe a debt and wid not be able ahle to pay it and they thay felt like an old man maa that lives ilves at t provo br jameson who lias has carried a few ounces of lead in b his is body ever since the hauns mill massacre in af missouri fis i sou ri and he wants to pay it back with usury liguri and he undertook to preach at provo and prayed that god would send them along for he wanted to h have ave a 1 chance at thern them now I 1 never felt so but hut I 1 do not know but it is on account of my extreme ex timidity for I 1 would a great deil deal rather that thu the lie lord would fight the battles than me and I 1 feel to io pray that lie he will p punish u nih them with that hell which is 13 to want to i and ant cant and it is my prayer and wish all the time that this may be their doom this is what I 1 want to inculcate all the time and at the same came time if tho the lord lori brings us iu in collision with them and it is his wili wiil let lot us take hold field not in the spirit of revenge or anger but simply to avenge god of his enemies and to protect our holnes homes and fire sides but I 1 am perfectly aware that all the settlements tle ments I 1 visited in the south fillmore included one single sentence is ig enough to put every man in motion in fact a word is enough to set jn n motion every man mail or set a torch to every building where the I 1 safety of this people is jeopardized I 1 have understood that there are balca balta half a dozen fellows in provo that have but one wife each and that they are not for fighting because they say this trouble has come on account of plurality well I 1 pity them because I 1 know the women will leave them thet and that it would not be buta but bui a few days before there would wad be he so many broken hearted disconsolate menz men for the women among tho the latter day saints will not live with such men I 1 I 1 have rejoiced and enio enjo enjoyed ad myie on hib his this visit to the as much as at a any ny time lime for I 1 perceive a h hearts hearty arty billiu willingness ness to do and sacrifice anything that was hiis required bequir d for the preservation of zion and whenever I 1 got up to preach I 1 was full and it seemed as if I 1 could not stop sto eto and before I 1 got through ii r would I 1 will say to the brethren and I 1 feel to return to my heavenly father layf rupi franke that lie has thus far frustrated the designs of our enemies and I 1 know that he has got tile hie power to bield and to frustrate them thern at his will aud and I 1 know if wa we are humble and united and moved upon by the tile right spirit god will fight our battles and if ariy any of us are called to lay down our lives in iv the defence of our reli rell religion glon gion gadwill god goa will save buffin ue in celestial glory and lie he will vill preserve us though all the word be against pres B young that is frue true rue rup 1 I hese these are my feelings and anti thi this 3 is my faith no matter what day nor hour bour we are called toi togo logo tor go lato into the presence of our father in heaven lor for every nian man and woman that has lias not gat at a religion that thit is worth more than their mortal lives and unless we are willing to sacrifice all that thac pertains to these temporal feelings we are not of salvation why there was an honest dutchman came to me ihli morning and lie he had just i n S t heard beard that the president had concluded to let iet 1 I I 1 the soldiers in here his heart bad sunk duhin him at the thought ando and add 0 says lie he ican I 1 live to hee vee those troops come in here he ire can live through wa a great many things besides that god will protect his people and lie he will fight thair their battles and if ho he wants a little blittle help I 1 presume that he will find us ready beady I 1 have preached to the brethren to live their religion and trust in god and keep their powder ury dry I 1 borrowed it from cromwell be read tead ready to d defend efe nd israel Is raeland and when we have havo done all wei wee can the tile lord will do the balance why say he the awid it is for you to uncle mirrl S im has 25 millions of people and oi 01 dupius su pi us money in a tile tha treasury and AM sands of pm vi in the country that are aching to 10 be e killed we e ue used d to talk to them in this way W when h enbe ende we i d down in ill their gir ml midst d s td an and then w when en it came caffi e to the sticking point we would bow how t to thein them and what did we we get by it br taylor told you that thousands had sus suf suffered fared in consequence I 1 tell you yon we have suffered more waste of life and property than we will to face the music and let iet at them do db their curs edest and tind then every honest dutchman and every man mail will get all he wants afi and many of us yankees will get gat many of our dirty tricks purged and pruned out of us and our will vanish it will all fail for everything that we have in our hearts that is not night right will be bp purged out for our interest will be e centered in the kiRg doin doln of god when I 1 was back ciack in washington last season I 1 had a iong long with senator douglas and he i is a kind of personification of |
