Show remarks hy by pres brigham young bowery sunday at hernoon ter noon sep 13 REPORTED by J V LONG LONC I 1 would like very well to hear some of thoy thos h est rest or of the brethren speak if I 1 had bad entirely got over 01 er being angry and had patience pa tience tierce to sit and hear bear I 1 think however that I 1 shall be able to calm cairn and prid control my feelings though I 1 do not expect to become entirely settled until the affairs around me are settled it is a pretty bold stand for this people to take fake to say that they will not riot he be controlled by the tiie corrupt administrators of our general government we will be controlled by if they will be bar controlled by the constitution and laws but they will not riot many of them do not care any more about tile the constitution and the laws that they make than they do about the laws of another nation that class trample the rights of tile the people under noder their feet while there are also many who would like to honor lionor them all we have ever for is our constitutional rights dewish we wish the laws of our government honored and wo we have ever honored them but they ahey are trampled under foot by administrators I 1 there cannot be a more damnable dastardly order issued than was issued by the he administration to this people while they were in an indian country in 1846 before we left nauvoo not less than two united states senators senator cama to receive a from us that we would leave tha united states and then while we were doing our best beat to leave leae their borders the tile poor low degraded curses sent a requisition for five li undred of our men to go and ard and fight their battles that was president Pies ident polk and lie he is now weltering in hell bell with old zachary taylor where the present administrators will soon be tf if they do not repent liars have rep reported that this people have committed treason and upon their lies the president has ordered out troops to aid in officering cering this territory and if those officers are ike hae maily many who have haie previously been sent here and we have hava reason to believe that they are or they would not come when wilen they know they are ryot not wanted they are poor miserable blacklegs brolien broken down political hacks backs robbers and whoremongers men that til it are not fit for civilized society so they must dra dia qoon goon thern them upon us for officers I 1 feel that I 1 wont bear such cursed treatment and arid that is enough e to say ay for we nye are just as free as the mountain air I 1 do not lift my voice against the tile great and glorious government guaranteed to every by our constitution but against those corrupt administrators who trample the constitution arid and just laws under their feet aney care no more about them than ihan they do about the government of france bat they walk thain under their feet willi with imn impunity ity and the most of the characters 1 they hae have sent gent here as officers ceis cais cared no more about the laws of our country andoe and of this territory than they did d id about the laws of china but wa walked allied them under their feet with all the recklessness of despots I 1 do not want to be angry nor to have my nayfee fee ings wrought up but I 1 cannot keep quiet under the continued outrageous tyranny of the wicked 1 I have said that if the brethren will have falth faith the he lord will fight I 1 our battles and we will hav hava fk the privilege of hiiri r here in peace I 1 have haie counted the tha cost to this people of a colli collision I 1 slon sion with willi our enemies but I 1 cannot begin to cou con count nt tha cost it will ba to them I 1 have told you that if this people will live their religion all will be welli well weil and I 1 have told you that if there is any man or woman that is not W willing illing to destroy anything and everything of their property that would be of use to an enemy if left t I 1 wanted them to go out of the territory and I 1 again say so to danfor when the time comes to burll burri and lay waste our improvements if any rulx man undertakes under tal tai e s to shield his lie he will be sheared down for judgment will be laid to the line arid and righteousness to the tha pl plummet unmet now the faini hearted can go in n peace but should that time come they must before I 1 will suffer what I 1 have in times gone by there shall shail not be one building nor one foot of lumber nor a stick nor a tree nor a particle of grass and hay that wiil will burn left in reach of our enemies I 1 am sworn if driven to extremity to utterly lataste la lay yaste waste in tha iha name of israels god I 1 know that the tile saints both the brethren and sisters pray that our enemies may not come coine heie here for their entrance is des deigned gried by our government to be the prelude to the introduction of abominations and death and you cannot ta talk I 1 k to a brot brother or een ei en to a sister but bat that she will tell you that tha t if ir she consents in her feelings to have our enemies come here heie she feels uncomfortable and her heart sinks within her if I 1 consent in my feelings to 10 have them come here my heart sinks within me my buoyant spirits are gone and 1 1 l I have no comi comfort 0 rt for I 1 know the hellish designs concealed under un dertha the ire are present q nt movement but we are fr free C e and every man says stand by the kingdom 1 when this is s the he case everyman every man is like a troop the they y are lika like lions admit of corrupt ad administrators ending sending fro iro droops op s hero and what would be the result all hell would follow after I 1 naturally dislike to have any trouble and would not were I 1 not oot obliged to but we are obliged to defend ourselves the persecution of our oppressors or have our constitutional ri rights lits rent from us and ourselves destroyed we must roust either summer suffer bat or stand up and maintain tile the kingdom of god on the earth we have known all the time that the kingdoms of darkness were opposed to the kingdom of god that the powers of earth and hell bell were combined against it christ aid baal bual cannot make fri friends e nus with each other you cannot mix ml x oil and water righteousness arld and wickedness this is tile the kingdom of god all others aro are of the devil they never can be united in this world nor in any other there is no possibility of the ibe two kingdoms becoming one those who be beleve here and obey the gospel of the elieson son of god and forsake all for its interests belong to the fhe kin kingdom odom of god and all the rest belong to 0 o the other othar kingdom there is a distinction anti anil uie hie ilie llie hiie must be drw drawn V and you and I 1 have bare to stand up to it even though it may take from us our right eyes and ti richt right hands we must up to tile the line and maintain the he kingdom of god or we will all go to destruction to together ether I 1 am perfectly willing that the brethren should atop al all li improvements if they tiley choose and spend a fow fw years in seeing what our enemies will do though their efforts against us will only tend to use them up the faster but if the he people prefer it thy th y may stop their improvements and ta take ke care of their wheat arl all and cache a supply of or grain flour lour ac where no other oilier persons can find it I 1 though hou h we can raise grain crain here all the time yes uli nil the time suppose that our enemies send troops here they will have to transport all that will be requisite to sustain them tilam over ever one winter for I 1 will promise romi e 1 I 1 em before they come that there shall not be 0 ohe one a particle of forage nor one oue mouthful of food for them should they come they will have to bring all their provisions and forage and nd though they start their teams with as heavy loads as they tiley can draw there is no team that call can bring enough to sustain itself to say nothing of the tile men if it there were no more men here than there are in the seminole nation our enemies never could use us up but they could use up themselves which they will do the seminoles Semi Sem moles noles a lettla tribe of a few hundred in florida have cost ost our government Go I 1 suppose iu in the neighborhood of a and they they are HO nearer being conquered than when the he war commenced and what few have removed have leen been induced to do so by compromise and aud it would be far cheapest for the government to pay the tita tha debts they lio iio honestly nestly owe us and leave us unmolested molested in the tile peaceful enjoyment of our rights would not our enemies feel well in going to the tha kenyons for wood the first night to cook their suppers with the ilea mea puts me in mind of an anecdote told by one brown about tile the man who took the fort firt barrel of whiskey up the Mis missoula souli river on a log raft t they might stay amid blac blackened desolation till they ate up what they brou brought 9 lit and then they would bave have to go back it has been asked I 1 have you counted the cost yes Ys for ourselves but I 1 cannot begin bein be in to count it for our enemies it will cost them all they have in this world and will land them in hell bell iu in the world to come edme while the tiie only trouble with vs us is is that we have two or three ti times more men than we ried need for using up all who can come here to deprive us of our rights As I 1 said this morning tell ten years ago on his this ground I 1 stated that we would not ask any odds oddi of our enemies in ten teu years from that date and the i next time that I 1 thought of it was ten years ante anne afterwards awards to aday a day they are gre now sending I 1 their hi r troops was the he news and it directly occurred to me will you ask any odds of them na no in the name of israels god we will not for as as soon as we ask asic odds we get ends of bayonets when rhen we have asked them for bread they have given us stones and when we have aelcea them for meat they have given us scorpions and what is the use in our asking any more I 1 do not ask any ans odds of those choso who are striving to deprive us of 0 every every vestie vestige of freedom and to destroy us from the earth su suppose appose that we should now bow down and they should order their troops back and then send a governor and other officers here how long would it be before some miserable scamp camp would get into a fuss fuis with the indians in utah bounly or in fit some somo other county and get hilled then iha tha governor would order out the militia probably two or three hundred men to kill off those indians indiana well weli the brethren knowing that th the agg aggressor rossor is is a weta man do not want to 0 o turn out nut and eke gen harney kill the squads squaws and tuey luey say we shall not go then the governor would say they have committed treason and it would be send au an army here and shoot and hang anoni 1 our oar enemies are determined to bring us lito tato collis collison on with the government so that they cau eau kill us but they shall not come coma here if 11 be the troops are now this side of laramie remember that the sweetwater is this tins side of that place th ey must have some place to winter for they cannot come through here this season ve ito could go oa out ont taid aid ald use usa theo them up tip and ic would not require fifty men to do it but probably we shall no not have occasion to take that course for we do not want to kill men mail they may winter in in peace at someplace east of us but hut when spring comes they must go back to tile tiie states or at any rat rata they must leave the mountains we have no desire to kill men but we wish to keep the devils from killing us if you hear that they are near the upper crossing of the platte they ther will probably stay there till they can collect troops we will say ray that 9 and 3 equal 17 aud and if that ia h so how long will it take to get those troops here let an arithmetician figure out how bow orl long iong oil it will be before 9 0 and 3 will make 17 for that will be just as soon as our enemies wiil will get troops hare bare we have got to be called tie tle trea so ners by y our enemies mies joseph was ta taken an u up six times if I 1 leg member ril rii rightly itly on the charge of treason once he lie was brought into court by b some iome enemies who thought they could prove that he committed adultery and that they termed treason at another time our brethren wanted to vote in davies county Mis nis missouri souil souli and said they would cast their votes ana have their rights with other citizens whereupon joseph was taken tip up for treason another time lime be he was taken up on a charge of high treason and when lie he camb cama before the grand jury his enemies wanted to prove that he had more than one cue wife as gove that at that was high creasor our our bur enemies are constantly yelling rebellion treason trea no matter how peaceful orderly arid and loyal we may be and now to come out in open opposition to their cursed corrupt practices will of course be counted treason but let lea me eil ell tell you that the rai ral real actual treason is committed in washington by tile the administrators of our government sending an army to take the lives of innocent citizen citizens every man mail is allowed by the constitution ution to have what religion he pleases and to profess what religion he pleases pie ses that liberty is guaranteed by t the e constitution but you I 1 mor mons an army must be sent against you because you are latter day saints yes an army must ba be sent to drive us from the earth there is bim big high treason in IV washington ashington and ana if the law was carried out it would hang op tip many of them and the very act of james K polk in taking of our men while we were making our way out of the country under an agreement forced upon us would hare have liun hung him between the heavens li eavens arll aril ani the earth if the laws had been faithfully executed arid and now if they can send a force against this people we have efery constitutional lul tut ional lonal and leai legal leal right tight to send them to hell and we calculate to send them there when I 1 get over being angry I 1 may preach something el sebut the past travels and sufferings of this people through are before me itie I 1 am not speaking of the government but of the corrupt administrators of or the government they make me think of a sign in new york upon which was lettered all manner of twisting and turning done here it is just j so in washington city they can twist and turn in any tiny and every way to suit their helli heili hellish ii appetites were I 1 an officer sent to utah for the purpose of aiding the unhallowed oppression of the tile innocent and in this connection I 1 disclaim all personalities I 1 would know we the facts in the case before I 1 made any hostile move and sooner than side with tyranny and murder mur derl derI 1 would resign my ray commission and say take it ft and stick it in four dour your boot and go to hell and I 1 will go my ray way and I 1 would rather go and raise my ray own potatoes for m my wives and children than to hold office under unter such a set of administrators arid and bow down to their wicked designs though if I 1 were of the world I 1 would probably do as the rest do I 1 have already told you that the main cause of an army being now sent here is a political scheme for tor the purpose of getting money out of the united states treasury politicians and traders combine to lay plans no matter how devilish for getting gretting their hands into the treasury of the united states that they may have money with which to sow corruption and gratify their debauched natures some men do not realize what they are doing I 1 said a few weeks ago 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