Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-18
LATER FROM UTAH.

Resist the Troops to the Last-Utahnot to
abandoned.
We have received file of the Deseret Nes's
to October 7th, containing, among other inter-
esting items, reports Of several violent speeches
delivered by Brigham Young on Sunday, the
18th Of September, extracts from which will
be found below. The M0rmons seem to be
animated, as by common impulse, to resist the
troops.
BRIGHAM rouSG's VIEW OF THE UTAH EXPEDITION
The following are the material portions of
Brigham Young's Sermon delivered during Cap
tain Van Yliet's stay in Utah:
RESISTANCE TO THE TROOPS.
This people are free; they are not in bondage
to any government on Gods foOtstool. We
never transgressed any law, and we have no occa-
sion to do SO, neither do we intend to; but as
for any nations coming to destroy this people,
God Almighty being my helper, they cannot
come here. The congregation responded, by
loud Amen.l That is my feeling upon that
point:
do not often get angry, but when do am
righteously angry, aud the bosom of the AL
mighty burns with anger towards those sound
rels, and they shall be consumed, in the name OF
Israers God. We have borne enough of their
oppression and hellish abuse, and we will not
bear any more of it, for there is no just law re-
quiring further forbearance on our part. And
atm not going to have troops here to protect
US from the land we possess, for the Lord does
not want us to be driven, and has said, ''if you
will assert your rights and keep my command
ments, you shall never again be brought into
bondage by your enemies"
FAITH RECOMMENDED TO THE SAINTS.
If there was perfect union of our faith, our
enemies never could cross the Rocky Noun
taius, or if they undertook to come some other
way they never could cross the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, nor the Basin Rim on four North.
nor the deserts at the South. But says one, 81
want to fight" Do all such persons know that
they are not right?
THE SENDING oFTKooPs DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
If you do your duty in this respect you need
not be afraid of mobs, nor Of forces sent out in
violation of the very genius of our free institu-
tons, holding you till mobs kill you. Mobs?
Yes for ,cAere Is there the least particle Of du-
th0rity, either in our constitution or LdtCs, for
sending troops here, or eC6H for appointing cirlt
officers contrary to tile voluntary consent o.. the
gOrerned We came here without any help
from our enemies, and we intend to stay as long
as we please.
BRIGHAM DEFIEs THEM.
They say that their array is legal, and l say
that such statement is as false as hell, and that
they are as rotten as an old pumpkin that has
been frozen screen times and then melted an a
harvest sun. Come on with your thousands of
Illegally ordered troops, and l will promise you
in the name of Israels God, that you Shatt melt
Gaody as the SnOlo before d July sun,
PERMISSION TO RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES.
If it were any use l would ask whether
there is one person in this congregation who
wants to go to the United States, but l know
that I should not find any. But [ will pledge
myself that if there is a man, woman child
that wants to go back to the states, if they will
pay their debts and not steal anything, they can
go: and if they are poor and honest we will help
them to go.
TIE MoRMoxs REFUSE TO LEAVE UTAH,
When was written to in Nauvoo by the
President of the United States, through another
person, inquiring, "wher" you going Mr..
Ynuns"" replied that did not know where
should land. We had men in England trying
to negotiate for landowners Island, and we sent
a ship load of Saints round Cape Horn to Cali
fornia. Men in authority asked, ''wherc are
you going to? " eve may go to California, or
to Vanc0uver's Island" when the Pioneer
company reached Green river, we met Samuel
Brannan and few others from California, and
they wanted us to go there. remarked, let US
go to California and we cannot stay there over
five years, but let us stay in the mountains and
VIC can raise our own potatoes aud eat them,
and calculate to stay here. We are still on
the backbone Of the animal, where the bone and
sinew are, and we intend to stay here, and all
hell cannot help themselves
We are not to be prosecuted as we have been.
We can say, "GOme mob, and we can sweeten
you up right suddenly" They never did any
thing against Joseph till they had ostenSlbly
legalized mob, and shall treat every army
and every armed company that attempts to come
here mob. The congregation responded
"Amen."l
WRONG UPON THE NoRMoNs.
There cannot be a more damnable, GastardIy or
der issued than was issued by the administration
to this people while they were in an Indian coun-
try in 1916. Before we left Nauvoo, not less
than two United States Senators came to receive
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