| Show REMARKS by ir president r ur brigham elgham young youns bowery nowery sad sunday a y aiu alu orning aib ruing september IS 13 1857 br BY 1 T Y LONG before the meeting closes I 1 want to make malic a few xe marks remarks my feelings are so complicated that I 1 want to say a few words and I 1 do not want to I 1 want to talk and I 1 do not want to talk you recollect hearing one of the eidel s state upon the hie stand not notions long iong sirce since that lie he came into lle ile lie the church mad and had llad been mad ever since and I 1 am too this morning to preach 1 I have been in this kingdom a good while twenty five years and upwards and I 1 have been driven from place to place my brethren have llave been driven my sisters have been driven we have been scattered and peeled and every time tima without any provocation upon our part pirt only that we were united obedient to the laws of lle ile the lie land and striving to worship god mobs repeatedly gathered against this people but they never had llad any power to prevail until governors issued their orders and called out a force under the he letter of fhe the law but breaking brea bre akine kinc the spirit to hold hoid the mentions still while infernal scamps scalps cut their throats throaty I 1 have had bad all that before me through the night past and it makes me too angry to preach also to see that we are hi in a government ident whose are always trying to injure ure us while we are constantly at the defiance of a all ail I 1 hell to prove any just grounds for their hostility against us and yet the they are organizing their forces to come here and protect infernal scamps scalps who are anxious to come and kill whom they please destroy whom they please and finally exterminate the mormons cormons Mor mons edid idid I 1 did not riot arrive till late and br taylor was then preaching upon this subject and I 1 was giad glad onh ont of it if he e has you good principles this people are free they are not in bondage to any government on gods footstool we have transgressed no law and we have no occasion to do so neither neit nelt lier iier do we intend to but as for any nations lons coming to destroy this people god almighty i n i g aty being my helper they cannot come here the congregation responded by a loud amen that is mv my feeling upon that point on the nth of J july uly last a number of us went to big cottonwood cotton gotton wood kanyon to pass the annever sary odbur of our arrival int into this valley ten years years ago oo 00 o o the of last july a few of the elders arrived here and began to plow pi aw and to plant deeds to 0 o raise food to sustain themselves whilst speaking peaking lo 10 the brethren on that day I 1 said faid inadvertently if the hie people of the united states will let us alone for ton ten years we will ask no of them and ten years from that very day we had a message by br ars smoot stoddard and rockwell that the government had stopped t the he mail and that they had ordered 2500 troops to cd come me here and hold the cormons mormons Mor Alor mons still while priests politicians speculator speculators whoremongers und and uni every mean filthy character that could be raked up tip should come here antl and anti kill off the mor mons mors I 1 did not think about what I 1 had bad said tun ten vears years ago till I 1 heard that the Pres president dent ct of fhe the unita united stales states had so unjustly ordered hoops here and then 1 said when my former ex pi assion came caune to my mind in the name of israels god we ask no odds of them I 1 do riot not often get angry but when I 1 do I 1 am righteously angry and the bosom of the almighty burns with anger towards those scoundrels and they shall be consumed iu in the tha name cf israels god we have borne enough of their oppression arid ardd hellish bellish abuse and we will not bsarany bear beur any more of it for there is no just law requiring further forbe forve forbearance arance on our part aud and I 1 am not going go ng to have haie troops here to protect the priests and a hellish rabble in efi eff effort orts orto to drive us from the tha land we possess for the lord does joes not want us to be driven and has said if you will igert assert isert your rights and anti 1 beep keep my commandments you never ngn agn again be brought into bondage by your entres enties ene ent zes res 1 the e officer in command of the tha united states army on is its way to utah di detailed tailed one of his staff captain van anet who is now on the stand to collig comb come here and learn whether lie he could pro procure cute cure the nece necessary supplies for the army dia ala many 11 of vou are already awara aware of this and some of you U have bave been previously acquainted with willi the captain captain van vliet vilet visited us in winter quarters now florence and it if I 1 remember correctly lie he was then officiating as assistant quarter master lie he is again in in our midst in the capacity of assistant quarter master from the day of his hia visit to winter quarters many of this thi people have become personally acquaint acquainted edwith with him hiim both through casual intercourse with and working for him he has invariably treated them kindly as lie he would a baptist a methodist or any oti tl cr person for that bisbis is bis his character ile fie has bas always alva aiva ys been found to be free and frank franic and to be a nian man that wi wishes ashes to do right and no doubt lie would deal deai out justice to all it if lie he had the power many of you 5 ou have labored for him and found him to be a kind good man and I 1 understand that he lie has much influence in the army through his kidd kind treatment to the soldiers sold ers ile he freaa treats them as human beings 11 while there are those who treat them worse than brute beasts well the inquiry is what is the news what is the tiie conclusion it is thiap this ave we have to trust in god I 1 am not in the east least concerned as lo 10 the result it we put our trust in god the administrators of our government have issued orders for marching troops and expending much leasure treasure and all predicated upon halsebo falsehoods while every honorable man would have first made all an economical and peaceful inquiry into the circumstances cum stances and even now every honorable man would use all his influence to avert the present unjust and entirely groundless movement against us u but captains majors colonels and other subordinate sub tub ordinate officers have bava not the power wicked per ner persons solely for the accomplishment of their schemes have had the power to array biltl ula ulo uia government araIn acain against st us through their lying rrth irid end misrepresentation bat but citizens z unorganized into lato ciquia cl cines iines and parties no matter how good their and wishes have not riot he the power to awol the biow blow when the Administration of our gove government rement is arrayed against us unless they will al aio alo aho o unite urite against the few well organized scoundrels who are plundering our treasury and fast urging our country to dissolution we have got to protect ourselves by the tile strength of our god do not be concerned in the least leas t with regard to all the affairs that are before you for we wo hall shall live and grow finely as said a certain woman who weighed but two pounds when an infant and was put in a quart cup cub upon being asked whether she lived 0 yes she said 41 lived and crew finely it will also be said of the lutter latter day saints they lived arid any grew finely you are taught from sabbath to sabbath what to do and if you do that all will be well there is only one thing to f fear ear and that is that you will not be faithful to the kingdom of god we have that kingdom and it will spread its balmy wings ivings over thousands shousan Is and millions who yet heard the gospel and they will find israel to be the the head and not the tail tall what is the cause of the hostile feeling against this people br taylor has been telling you on god has restored the gospel 0 of salvation to earth again that unites the hearts of the people brings together those of dafter different nations notwithstanding their various traditions and their different manners arid and customs and makes them of one heart and of one mind arid and what follows all hell is moved against them because the kingdoms of this world the kingdoms of darkness are in danger all hell bell is moved against this people because we are of one heart and of one mind the faith of the gospel of jesus christ is calculated to unite the people in one and to bring them back to the unity and faith of those who obe obeyed the gospel anciently and finally to bring them back to glory then do you wonder that all the sects of the day lay are enraged against us I 1 have told you that I 1 do not wonder neither do I 1 wonder thab thai governors and rulers are enraged at oar success are there any democrats any whigs whims any methodists any baptists or a anything like the what parties earties arties artles and sects of the day among us its no what is there those who want to do the will of their father in heaven Il leaven and arid when they can know his will their faith is one their hope is one and they are one in all sll things it is not alone the united states that ig is in fear because of the union that exists with this people but hut all europe trembles this day in consequence of the faith there is here some may think that it is riot not so but I 1 know more about the united states than men do who come here direct from washington I 1 read their history and their feelings f every day you need not think that the world are not opposed to us you need riot not think that politicians are not opposed to us for they are we have haves havea ent sent a delegate to congress during the past six years arthas and has there thero ever been an opposing botein his election no the peo pie only want to know who the right man is and then they will support him dr bernhisel sel sei is our delegate and has it cost him biro 1 anus anaa of dollars dollari to gain hla hia election no it has not cost him a single singla collary dollar no not so much bucl I 1 as a red cent we think that he is the most suitable man for us to send to washl washington neton naton and ana we say let us bend send him and he is unanimously elected and if we had a thousand officers to elect it if we had to elect the president of the united states you would never see a dissenting vote parties in in our government have no better idea than to think the republic stands all the firmer upon opposition but I 1 say that it is not so A republican government consi stain stein letting the people rule hy by their united voice without a dissension in learning what is for the best and doing it that estrue is true republicanism lican ism do not be an angry y I 1 will wil permit you to be as ina ink aary ry as aa I 1 am do not get so angry that you cannot cannot pram may way do not allow yourselves to become so angry t talt 3 at you uon von c cannot annot feed an enemy even your worst if i an opportunity should present itself thero there is a wicked angen anger angered mad there is a righteous anger the lord does doea to noT noe suffer wicked anger to be bel in his heart b but ut there is anger in his bosom and he will hold a controversy with the nations and will sift i them and no power can sf stay ay his hist hand the government of our country will go by the board through its ite own corruptions corrupt ions and no power can save it if we can avert the blow for another season beason it is probable that our enemies will have enough to attend to at home bome without worrying the latter day saints have faith and all will be well weil with ua I 1 would like this people to have faith enough to turn away their enemies I 1 have pray prayed e f fervently er vently about this matter for athas been said that the trompa troops would come but I 1 have said sald that it if my mv faith will prevent it they shall riot not come if god will turn them whithersoever he will BO so that they do not come here I 1 shall be perr perfectly estly satisfied but another man steps up ip and says to the one that prays for d our dur ur enemies to be turned away lb brother rother you are a coward damn them let them come for I 1 want fight hight to them herein you perceive a conflict in our faith and that should not be it if there vas yas was a perfect union of our f aith faith our enemies never could cross the rocky mountains or it if ibay y undertook to come some other way they never could cross the sierra nevada mountains nor the basin rim on our north nor the deserts at the he south but says one 11 want to fight do all such persons know that they are not right if they will examine their hearts they will find a wicked ali all anger ler and malice there and they cannot get into the kingdom of god with those feelings learn to control yourselves learn to be in the hands bands of god as clay ip 19 the hands of the potter and if he will turn our enemies away praised be his name but if it should become a duty to take the sword let us do it manfully and in the strength of israels god then one will chase a thousand and two will put ten thousand to flight the day will be in which a man will go out and say to an army of 0 a hundred thousand men do thus and so or we are upon you and they will hear bear the rumbling of chariots and arid the rushing of troops as in the davs of ell eli elijah ab you recollect recollect of a prophets telling what bre bred bread d and meal should be sold for in a straitened city the tile following day the enemy thought that ther tiler were millions of the israelites after them for they heald beat d the rolling of chariot wheels the hie I 1 clashi clashing rg of armor and the trampling of horses and they fled tile the prophet had told the king that lie he would be hodden to death deal h in the gate and he lie was and a measure of meal was sold in the city for a penny in fulfilment fulfillment of tile he word of the lord the tile doctrines of salvation are the same now as thy they were vere in the days of adam or eljah eijah or jesus w ahen en lie he was upon tile tiie earth while br taylor was speaking orthe sectarian world it occurred to my mind that tile the wick wiek ick lck ed do not know any more than tile the dumb brutes compa comparatively speaking but it js is our to hunt up and gather ou out t ait air the honest portion of he the nations of the earth and give them salvation we may very properly say that the sectarian sec tarlan tatian world do not know anything correctly so far as pertains to salvation ask them where heaven is where they are going to when they die where paradise is and there is not a priest in the world that can answer your questions ask them hem what kind of a being our heaven HeaVeD heavenly lY father is i and they cannot tell you so much as balsams Bala ams ass told him they are more ignorant than children we have the knowledge ot of those things I 1 and we have llave the greatest reason to be thankful of any people upon the face of the eaith if others ought to do right we more be full of love and anti ot of compassion compas siou to your fellow beings bongs full of kindness such as human beings can possess for that is our bu business bubines sines tile the only business that we have on hand liand is to build up tip the tile kingdom of god and prepare the way of tile the son of man if you do your duty in this respect you need not be afraid of mobs nor of forces sent out in violation of he file very genius of our free i lions holding you till mobs kill you mobs yes for whre where is there the least particle of antho authority tho rity either in our or laws for sending troops here or even for appointing civil officers officers contrary to the tha voluntary consent 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