San Andreas independent., 1857-11-28
The Mormons.

already well established in the minds of
almost every one: that the Mormons are
traitors in spirit and feeling, and are now,
by declarations and acts, in a state of
open rebellion to the authorities and laws
of the United States Even those who
were disposed to treat the matter in the
most favorable light, and were unwilling
to believe that this class of people could
be so lost to every feeling of humanity, as
to commit the horrible deeds that have
been laid to their charge; or who could
not think that the leaders of the Latter
Day Saints would so far forget their own
safety as to resist the authorities of the
general government, are now compelled,
from the accumulative evidence before
them, to admit that this fanatieal people,
led on by designing scoundrels, are capa-
BILE, not only of committing deeds of mur-
der and bloodshed in the name of rcli-
gion, but actually have the assurance to
beard Uncle Sam and openly bid defiance
to his authority.
Turn, twist and present the matter in
what shape we may, it is impossible to
come to any other conclusion than that the
government is upon the eve of war with
the deluded people of Salt Lake, war
against fanaticism-the most bloody of
all wars-and which will, perhaps, only
terminate with the utter extinction of the
Mormon people, or, at least, their being
expelled from the Territory of the United
States. If some persons are disposed to
treat their bold assertions and defiant
preachings as so much windy bombast,
and find some excuse for their instigating
and assisting the Indians in the murder
of emigrants, and that all this does not
mean resistance and defiance to the GOV
ernment, they can no longer harbor Il
doubt, when they take into consideration
the strenuous efforts the Mormons are
making to prepare themselves for any
emergency, by the concentrating of all
their followers at Salt Lake, the provid-
ing themselves with arms and ammuni-
tion, the building of forts, the drilling of
their men, &c.
c. G. Langdon, who was clerk in the
United States Surveyors office, and resi-
ded two years at Salt Lake city, was COM
PEELED to escape in the dark hour of night
from their midst, in order to save his
life, leaving his wife and child behind.
He lately arrived in Placeryille, destitute,
and almost worn out and famished. In
speaking of their preparations to resist
the government troops, he says: I" Wis
tied the arsenal and found they had a
fair display of artillery. also visited
their public and private workshops, saw
them casting cannon-shot and manufac-
turing grape and canister in great abun-
dance, and some fifty or more men max
ing Colts dragoon-size revolvers-so close
a resemblance to the genuine, that
careful eye could hardly distinguish the
difference"
Of the manner in which they feel and
talk in relation to the government and
people of the United States, we publish
few samples as spoken by their leaders
in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City, in
the months of September and October.
There is high treason in Washington and,
if the law was carried out, it would hang up
many of them. And the very act of James X.
Polk, in taking five hundred of our men while
we were making our way out of the country,
under an agreement forced upon u.s. would
have hung him between the heavens and the
earth, if the laws had been faithfully exccu-
ted. And now, if they can send a force against
this people. we have every Constitutional and
legal right to send them to HE'LL and we calcu-
late to send them there.-Brigham Young.
They say that their army is legal, and say
that such statement is as false as hell, and
~ ANeeSH eto oH Olu puuphlu tIlstt
been frozen seven times and then melted in
harvest sun. Come on with your thousands
OF Illegally ordered troops, and will promise
you, IN the name of Israers God, that YOU will
melt away as the snow before July sum-
Brigham Toung
Before we left Nauvoo no less than two II
.. Senators came to receive n pledge from us
that we would leave the United States. and
then, while we were doing our best to leave
their borders, the poor, low, degraded curses
sent requisition for FIVE hundred of our men
to go and fight their battlesl That was Presi-
dent Polk, and he is now weltering in hell
with old Zachary Taylor, where the present
administration will soon be, if they do not re-
pent.-Brigham Young.
Our enemies had better count the cost for
if they continue the job, they will want 70 lot
it out to sub-contractors before they pet half
through with it. If they persist in sending
troops here, want the people in the West
and in the East to understand that il will no,
be safe for them to cross the Plains.--Briohou,
Young.
We commenced, last Sunday. to declare
that we are a free people, and we will be free
from this day henceforth and forever. and
never will come under that yoke again. tell
you, as my soul lives the bow-pn has drop