| Show i I 1 REMARKS 1 by ny pre pres ei nr ighani young tabernacle acle sunday morning oct is IS 1857 57 BY J T V LONG I 1 purpose to have read lo 10 0 o you this morning some of the communications that have passed between our enemies and ourselves for tile the people are arc anxious to know the feelings of the two wo parties they are sery very anxious to learn the news I 1 a am in perfectly willing L that they tiley should know all for in my feelings and yours are very different from those of tile tiie you are aware that among the nations the soldiers are never permitted lo 10 know anything about the plans plarl bof the officers statesmen withhold from their constituents every policy can and the statement of one of them is verily true pertaining to their use of the english language that is to secrete ideas instead of revealing them men alen study to talk a great iea deal lea when at the same game time they know but very little and often P even eri ell strive to conceal the little ahey do know among its other othen cap capabilities abilities the E english tig ilg is h language ari arl guage is better adapted than any other in existence to the using of thousands of j words without conveying an idea if tira the government of the lle ile lie united states have sent bent soldiers to this territory I 1 do not know it for I 1 have had no official notice ot of such a circumstance and you will perceive that I 1 treat them accordingly if they are sent by government they are sent expressly to destroy this people and if they are not sent by the government they have ame come expressly to destroy this people therefore I 1 shall treat them then as illare informed the of 0 bicer in command the same saine as though they were an avowed mob not as I 1 would those who have heretofore mobbed w but as parties who have come to mob us its now I 1 have informed colonel alexander that had bad his command been the men who wilo have heretofore mobbed us band and the iving icing scribble scribblers rs and the wicked rabble who have all tile the day long been trying to incite mobs against us they never would have seen the south pass you will perceive from the communications which br john jolia T caine calne will read the f feeling of or the two parties par tips myself representing the Latt Latter erDay ernay dax Dav saints and col alexander the cefi effi cers cera of what he states to bo e a portion of the united states arm army whether itis it is or not I 1 have no bl business MineSS to know and shall shau not know until I 1 am officially notified br caine will now nor read the principal letters in the order bet bt best s t adapted to your comprehending their purport br caine read an unofficial letter from dent briglan Bri Brig gLam ham bam youns yount to col alexander dated J oct 14 one from lt geni wells wella to prest frest yount young dated oct 15 one from froin col alexander to go gov GOT y young dated oct 12 arid and one from froin gov young to col alexander dated oct gut 16 there are a good food maily miny m many any iny here who bave have not witnessed the scenes of persecution that some of us have I 1 ivas wog asking father morley this mor morning nine wilether whether lie he thought the tile enemy could now ride into our fields and through L ohr our gardens and shoot down mar our cattle and plunder and burn buria our housea house as they the y did in missouri mim Mic when whan oie ole h moh mob ynos iu in missouri commenced burn fins ing I 1 our habitations we frequently sent to the governor petit petitioning zoning him to stop but ins instead tead of doing that he rendered rende reade red them assistance by order ordering ing a about bout men to go and lay waste the tha city of far west and destroy men women and children those orders geni berill clark dark had bough though at their close cie the governor said to him 11 1 I shall leava leave it discretionary with vou whether yoa you kill all the ivion bons boas or not noty we saw them coming and soine some thought they were ant lit todis to disperse the mob in answer to our petition but the mob ere ere cre expecting expect ino them and seemed to understand th t he h movement the te first act that I 1 saw geni benl darks array per pey perform form was to throe throve A down aown half halt amlie amile a ami nile of fence that opened d into a six dex ix hundred acre fie field ld of corn the mob birgid mir gid kid i d with the army array and they rode and drove their au dials into and through li that corn field at night they took the rails and burned them for firewood hir fir and ard let their horses run hoosein loo sein seln the field tahl I 1 saw and arid knew hence j I 1 was waa jast jest w apking aking fattier morley whether lie thought our enemies corrid now ide lide into the corn fleida of the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons he said that he thought they could not tili till lii bli saing makes me nse say fallt hl bijah to god it is pretty hard for ins aisle te come here with nothing and wr we have cono conn ns near comici coming 9 here with nothing as the loid did to creating the heavens aud and the earth out of nothing noth moth irig 1119 and I 1 have frequently thought a liftig higher eigher I 1 do riot not think that ile lie was under the thy necessity of borrowing but I 1 was I 1 olev oley thit that the lord ims imi material maate rui rul enough to build all al lia ila fi wants but I 1 had almost nol noi bolling no hiag ling soni of or u worked in the temple in nauvoo all nil five days lys before we it ifft lift ft chith gave gare us but little liuia opportunity for outfit though wadzy madzy lahny labny were crossing the niver river before that time lime 1 if I 1 remember r rightly i I 1 then owned one span of horses and a bu tit gy that br daniel spencer gave lave ule soe I 1 traded lor for wagons other thing that I 1 needed and for an old horse horses I 1 then had three horses and three devons I 1 boight and borrowed abd aad traded and got ot the brethren to help me tile out anda and golm gola goo many others borrowed on my credit soft ice it to say eay we wt left our houses and lands and thou thousands sandl sandi and am thousands of bushels of grain this nig year has haa made me think of the season beason that we were obliged to leave nauvoo that was one of the most roost productive seasons ever known in the state of illinois it has been asked me by some of the brethren do you von think we shall have to leave our fine chopi crops the earth seems to be loaded as well aa as it was in nauvoo we have not got to leave we hall hal not riot be obliged to leave our crops and our houses bouses to our enemies we can sustain ourselves selves jt makes me rejoice that we areno vf iv ill in a situation that it if this people will live as they should live they will vill no more have to be driven as we have been hitherto should we ever be obliged the decree of my heart is is that there shall naught be left for our enemies but the ashes of or all that will burn the congregation responded amen they shall not have my house nor my f furniture as they have had bad hitherto that privilege gives me joy and comfort and I 1 will now say to those who are not acquainted with such scenes for many of youarn not riot that it if you see the time that you aie afe are obliged to lay waste and leave your hoies homes you sll sli vil sa say sax v I 1 right in the time and afterwards that you on ne never felt so well in your lives jor for th the e spirit and power of god gadwill will rest upon you in in proportion to the necessity of the case I 1 know that those who have been in our past troubles those who have bebenin the midst of death and destitution cagear testimony that they never enjoyed so much of the spirit of the lord at any other time in their lives I 1 do not know that anybody complained in nauvoo except br kimball and he be was only sorry that the war closed so soon for we had our eyes upon a good many of those infernal scoundrels and anti we wanted to sod them we have haye sought for peace all th the day long iong and I 1 have sought for peace with the army now on our borders and have warned them that we all roost most firmly believe that they are sent here solely with a view to destroy this people tho thol i they may mav be ignorant of that fact and though we mayl may believe belleve that they are sent by the government e of 0 the united states yet I 1 as governor of this territory have no business to know any such thing until I 1 am notified by proper authority at washington I 1 have a right 4 treat them as a mob just as though they ey bad been raised and officered in dils Alis missouri and arid sent here expressly to destroy this people we have been beeri very merciful and very lenient to them As I 1 informed them in in my roy unofficial letter bad they been those who mobbed ua its in missouri they thes never would have seen the south pass we had plenty of boys on hand and the mode of warfare they would have met inet with they are not riot acquainted with I 1 would fust just as soon tell them as to tell you my mode of warfare As the lord god lives we will waste our gur enemies by millions if they send them here to destroy us and not riot a man of ua be hurt that is the method I 1 intend to pur sue aue do you want to know what is going to be done with the enemies now on our borders if they come here I 1 will tell you what will be done aa as soon as they start to come coma corm corn into our settlements let sleep depart from their eyes and a slumber lumber from their eyelids until they sleep in i death for they ha hageleen veleen have been beeb warned and forewarn ed that we will not tamely submit to being des ties st royed men dieh shall be secreted here and there and shall waste away our enemies in the namo name of israels Israel 3 god I 1 have thought that perhaps the lord designs to f furnish us a little clochin clothing t and ammunition and tf if he does be will permit our enemies to try to cohne coine in here but if lie he sees that that would be an injury to us he will turn thom them I 1 nother another li way I 1 intend to publish the communications between the army and myself for I 1 wish the whole united states to understand jt it col alexander complains of our mode of warfare they hav have etwo two or more mote field batteries of artillery with them and they want us to form a line of battle in an open plain and arid give them a fair chance to shoot shook us I 1 iid ild did lid not riot tell the colonel what hat I 1 thought but bot if lie he had a spark of sense he must bea be a fool to think that we will ever do any such thing I 1 am going to observe the old maxim he that fights and runs away lives to fight another day 5 should our enemies venture upon violent measures measure 9 1 I design 11 to so manage affairs that none of 0 our ur boss will be killed and in my answer to the colonel I 1 have told him pretty plainly what we shall do under cartain certain tairi contin ge ric TIC e 9 did he not granny it off admirably about the pris prisoners otters when he be wrote I 1 need not assure you that not a hair of their heads will be hurt he e dare not riot hurt them neither haa baa he the first particle article articie of reason for hurting thero thern lie ile has hai released and sent in the younker younger brother with an express under tinder the alleged consideration of his havin having V a wife and three ch children idren entirely dependent upon him I 1 wonder that the colonel one ode had not a young officer to send with him the boy boys report their order of march to be the loth infantry in front th ohp baggage ba ae in the tile center the ath ih fantry infantry in the reap rear and d several flanking companies traveling through te the brush as best they can dont you think they would look well coming from the united states in in that gay way way that is the way in which they were traveling tra ahng af at our last advices advises ad ai vices and it was wa s said that their picket guard deci declaron arod they would not watch if the soldiers knew the facts in the case cage as do their officers cers cerp they would probably near nearly lyall all ali leave the army but the officers keep the soldiers old oid in the dark the me last report is that the officers had been telling the men that I 1 had bad written a very favorable letter to col alexander and that they were intending to come ii in ri when I 1 think thick are they in your houses are they in your your fields I 1 can answer no they axe are in tiie the mountains they are in the cold and snow and if they continue as those officers appear to intend to tp upon the side of despotism ar and they justly ought to be served as we i would bould i serve all but iv wi ari arp are here herm and we are aref carefree free rp a as br kimball eim kim bail bali bill h has as said just as free in in one sense as we ever shall be ile we need not noi think that we ar are always going doingo f 0 ba be ua molested unmolested sted by the efforts ol 01 mobs until wickedness ick lck edness is swept from this arab if wp 11 aliye vii iii we shail shall see we tho natio nations 5 of the earth ji ar i i rayed against this people for that thae time tinie rn must st come in lit f fulfillment of f prophecy tell about war commencing bitter arid relentless war w ar was waged against joseph smith before he had received the plates of the book of mormon and from that time till now the wicked have only fallen sack lack at times to gain strength and lind learn how to attack the kingdom of god col alexander preached to me a little stating in in his letter 11 1 I warn you that the blood sred seed shed in this contest will be upon your head but that warning gave me ro no thought but it if the blood of those sold bold soldiers i ers ig is shed it will bo upon the heads of their officers what they tiley will do dp I 1 luither neither know nor care carp for it will lii ill be just as the loid god wills it if it he sees that we need their substance he will turn urn things to that end and if he designs thern atheni to be wiped out he will either cause them to undertake to come here bere orwill overrule some other plan to accomplish that end grid another year I 1 am going to prepare for the worst and I 1 want you to prepare to cache our grain and lay waste this territory for I 1 am doter determined ter mined if driven to that extremity that our enemies shall find nothing flut gut heaps of ashes and arid ruins bruins we wiil will be so prepared that ia in a few davs days all call can be consumed I 1 shall shail request tho thu bishops to see that the fhe people in their wards are prodded ded with two or three years provisions there is already enough anoush raised in many places this season to supply the people from two to three years and arid I 1 wish them to toke take care of it though I 1 expect thit that in all probability we will raise a great many crops before our enemies again attempt to come here to disturb us and I 1 expect that we are fully able lo 10 defend ourselves ala aia that our enemies will not be able to come within a 1 bund hund of us I 1 know that ten men such as I 1 could name and select could stop them before they got gut to laramie and if we had bad seen fit to have sent such men this season they alone could very easily have so stopped our enemies hat they never would have got through tha iha black hills I 1 count five such men inen equal to twenty five and believe that two of 0 them could put ten thousand to flight I 1 believe we ye are now where that could be done I 1 m will ill iii take five or ten such as I 1 can name and if two can put ten thousand to fl flight ight I 1 am sure that ten tea 3 are pr perfectly estly able to do it who has sought for war have lave we no wo we haap babp preached the gospel to saints and strangers when str strangers auks anks would come and andi farry arry arrs loag enough to hear it we do not 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