Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-16
BRIGHAM YOUNG BREATHEs war,

BRIGHAM YOUNG BREATHES WAR;
We have received file of the Deseret News
to October 9Th, 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 Mormons seem to be ami
mated, as by common impulse, to resist the
troops
The following are the material portions of
Brigham YOung's sermon delivered during
Capt Van Nliet's stay in Utah:
RESISTANCE To THE TROOPS
Ihls people are free they are not in bond
age to any government on God footstool We
have traRsgressed no law, and we have no oc-
caslOn To do So neither do we intend to but
a'for any nation scoming to destroy this people,
God Almighty being my help they cannot come
here The congregation responded by loud
Amen.
PATH RECOMMENDED To THE SAINTS.
III there was perfect union of our faith
our enemies never could cross the Rocky Noun
talns, or II they undertook to come some other
way tney never could cross the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, nor the Basin Rim on our north
nor the deserts at the south But saws one
" want TO fight" Do all such persons know
that they are not right?
THE SENDING OF TROOPS DECLARED USEONsrI-
TUTIOSAL.
Ii 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 insti-
tuuons, holding you till mObs kill YOU Mobs
les, for where is there the least particle of au-
thOrity, either in our constitution or laws for
sending troops here, or even for appointing
civil officers contrary to the voluntary consent
OF the governed We came here without any
help from our enemies, and we intend to stay
as long as we please.
BRIGHAM pEFIEs THEM
They say that their army Is legal, and saw
that such statement Is as false as hell, and
that they arc As rotten an old pumpkin that
has been frozen seven times and then melted
In harvest sun Come with your thou
sands Of Illegally ordered troops, and / will
promise you, IN the name Of 1srael's God, that
go" shall melt array az Tie snO1c before a JnIy
PERMISSION TO RETURN To THE UNITED STATES.
Ii 1t were any use would ask whether there
Is one person IN this congregation who wants to
90 To the United States, but | know that |
should not find any. But L will pledge myself
that If there is man. woman or child that
wants to go back To the States if they will nav
thor debts and not steal anything, they can go,
and II they are poor and honest we will help
them to GO
THE NORNOSs REFUSE TO LEAVE UTAH
When L was written to in Nauvoo by the
President OF the United States, through another
person, Inquiring, where arc you going Mr.
Young" replied that L did not know where
We should land. We had men in England try-
ing to negotiate fer Yancouver's Island, and
We sent a ship load of Saints round Cane Horn
10 California. Men in authority asked where
are you going to !' We may 20 to CaIifor
ma. or TO NancOuver's Island When the
Pioneer company reached Green river we met
Samuel Brannan and few others from Cali
fornIa, and they wanted US to 90 there L re-
marked, let Us 90 to California and we cannot
stay there over five years but let us stay in the
mountains and we can raise our own potatoes
and eat them, and | calculate to stay here
We are still on the backbone Of tho animal.
where the bone and sinew are and we intend
10 stay here, and all hell cannot help them.
selves.
We are not to be prosecuted as we have been
We can say. Come a mob. and we can
sWeeten yOu up right suddenly" They never
did anything against Joseph till they had os-
tensioiy legalILed a mob, and / shall treat
every army and every armed company that at
tempts to come here a mob THE conprega-
tion responded Amen.'I
WKOSGS UPON THE NoRMoSs
There cannot be a more damnabIe dastardIv
order Issued than Was issued by the admins
tratlon to this people while they were in an
Indian country In 1910. Before we left Nauvoo
not less than two United States Senators came
to receive pledge from us that we would leave
the United States, and then while we were do
ing our best 10 leave their borders the moor
low, degraded curses sent 4 requisition for five
hundred OF our men to go and fight their bat
ues That was President Polk, and he is now
6eiterlng In hell with old Zachary TayIor.
where the present administration will soon be.
II they do not repent.
THE FAIST-HEARTED WARNED To LEAVE
have told you that it this people will live
their religion, all will be well and have told
you that II there is any man or woman that is
not willing To destroy anything and everything
a. hair fhof IL
enemy If left, L wanted them to 90 ont of the
territory, and again say to-day. for when the
time comes 10 burn and lay waste our improve
ments, n any man undertakes to shield his he
will be sheared down. for 3. Judgment will be
Ia to the line and righteousness to the plum
met Now the faint-nearted can go in peace.
but should that time come, they must not in
terfere. Before / will suffer what l have in
times gone by, there shall not be one building.
nor one foot Of lumber, nor a stick, nor a tree,
nor particle of grass and hay, that will burn,
lett In reach Of our enemies. | am sworn if
driven to extremity, to utterly lay waste in
the name Of Israel's God.
PREPARATIONS TO OPPOSE THE TROOPS
suPPOse that our enemies send 80, 900 troops
here, they will have to transport all that will
be TequISIte to sustain them over one winter
Tor will PROMISE them, before they come, that
there shall not be one particle Of forage nor one
In0uthful Of food for them should thew come
They will have TO bring all their provisions and
forage though they start their teams with ns
heavy loads rs they cGn draw, there is no team
that can bring enough to sustain itself to say
nothing Of the men. If 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 SemnOles, little tribe Of few hundred
IN Florida, have cost our government L sup
pose, in the neighbOrhOod Of SI00, ,OOO, 600, and
they are no nearer being conquered than when
the war commenced.
NEw USE YOR THE DAGUERREAG ARr-For
some time, says the Boston Medical and Surci-
cal Journal, the daguerreotype has conferred
much benefit upon the profession, by enabling
practitioners to secure representations Of dis
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