, 1857-06-26
Utah.


SAYINGS OF BRIGHAM THE PROPHET.
/ Brigham the Prophet still storms and
raves at the GentiIes in the Temple at
Great Salt Lake City, and hurls naughty
defiance against all the outside world.
Hear him:
True we have more wives than one, and
what of thatY They have their scores Of
thousands of prostitutes; we have none.
But polygamy they are uncOnstitutionalIy
striving to prevent; when they will accom-
plsh their object is not for me to say.
They have already presented resolution
in Congress that no man in any Of the ter
ritories of the United States shall be al
lowed to have more than. one wife, under
penalty not exceeding FIVE years impris-
onmcnt and FIVE hundred dollars fine. How
will they get rid of this awful evil in Utahi
They will have to expend about three
hundred millions Of dollars for building
prison, for we must all go to prison. And
after they have expended that amount for
prison, and rooted it over from the sum
nit of the Rocky Mountains to the summit
Of the Sierra Nevada, we will dig out and
go preaching through the world. A
voice on the stand: "What will become Of
the women? Will they go to prison with
us2" Brother Heber seems concerned
about the women's going with US, for we
shall be here together.
''Mormonism" is true, and all hell can
not prevent it. All the devils servants on
the earth may do all they can, as Brother
Claxton has Just said, after twenty-six
years faithful operation and exertion by
our enemies, including the time when Jo-
seph had scarcely a man to stand by him,
aud when the persecution was as severe on
him as 1t ever was in the world, what have
they accomplished?
They have succeeded 10 making rs an
organized territory, and they are determ-
ined to make US an independent State or
Government, and as the Lord lives It viii
be so. The congregation shouted Amen.l
l say, as the Lord lives, we are bound TO
become q sovereign State in the Union, or
an independent nation by ourselves; and
let them drive Us from the place IL they
can; they cannot do it. do not throw
this out as a banter. You Gentiles and
hickory and Eastwood Mormons can write
it down If you please, but write 1t as
speak il.
/ want to see the Elders lire on butter
milk and potatoes, and when they return
be more faithful. But they 60 as missiona-
ries Of the kingdom Of God, and when
they have been gone year or two many
Of them come back merchants, and how
they swell; how popular Mormonism Is,
Se can get trusted in st Louis ten thous-
and dollars well as not, and 10 New York
Brother BFigham's word Is 50 good that We
can get all the goods we want Mormon
ism Is becoming quite popular" Yes, and
so are hell and the works Of the devil
When Mormonism ends favor with the
wicked in this land Il Is gone into the
shade; but until the power Of The priest
hood Is gone, Mormonism viii never bo-
come popular with the wicked Mormon
ism Is not farthing better than It was 10
the days Of Joseph.
Brother Heber, n recent discourse.
pitched furiousIy into the exiravaganco of
women in Utah, which, In consequence Of
the extent Of some Of the households
there pinched rather severely. He dis
courses in this wise:
"If / would suffer It. / should have to
lay out $500 yearly for morocco shoes and
bootees al from three to Eve dollars a pair.
for the women could not wash without put
ting on o pair Of fne shoes. How many
times have l told you these thingsi And
Brother Brigham has told you They are
on my mind all the time, and I cannot get
them Oh, bat mast keep telling yon until
my mission Is complete; I cannot help IL
foresee the consequences Of an unWiso
course. as plainly as / see your faces today
The prophet Brigham gives the follow
ing sensible advice to those Mormons who
wish to emigrate to this country;
at is reported that many are going
away.-I say, gentlemen and ladies, you
who wish to 20 to California, or The States,
20 10 welcome. had rather you would
70 than stay. wish every one to 60 who
prefers doing 50, and II they go Ike gen
tlemen, they 60 with my best feelings; but
If they 60 like rascals and knaVes, they
cannot have them. have never reques-
ted but two things Of those who l6afe.
namely, to pay their debts and not 10 steal.
That Is all / have requested Of them1