Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-11-04

We l'tsefst, rue rHhii
be Deseret-shs shall DO no more Utah; We
will have our own names. DO you hear
III
! fronting TO all Of YOU they are most glori
the feelings within me are glorious
We are the people 81 Deseret, and it is for
va 10 say wbether tie people will have
| Bro brigham for our Governor, or these
poor, miserable devils they are reported TO
| be trying 10 bring here. You must know
they are miserable devils to have TO come
here under arms, but they shall not rule
over US, nor come into this Territory.
TO Arms
| We are going 10 have our own governor
henceforth. brigham Young was then our
governor HHber g. Kimball was Chief jus.
ticc and It. Governor ! WASH big man
then fit a. big NJ Bro Morley did in the
| Legislature The tao, is, he does not under
stand their gable; If he does, he under.
stand more thar do.
tn for us to say, according to our rights
under the Constitution whether we viii
have those cursed Gcntles 10 rule over rs
or not
| want you 70 publish this, Mr. editor
am giving you little Of my feelings.
for want you to know TINT you are under
| no more obligation TO receive those men
than Bro Brigham's fami'yis to receive
another man, and TO reject him as their
husband, their father, their benefactor
know that what have said has inform
ed many Of your minds. and choose to pre-
sent my ideas by comparison.
have a right - say the Gentiles shall
never rule over me, although this people
might admit Of their coming here l have
| "a right to say also that we shall never be
| ruled over by them from this day forth,
while grass grows or water runs; never no
never. Voices, amen"
Well, we bave rot to sustain these Amens
and we have got to sustain these vows-
YOU ladies, too, will certainly have to do
your part, or back out 1 told you last Sun
day 10 arm yourselves, and if you cannot do
it any other way, sell some Of your fine bon
nets. fine dresses, and buy yourselves a good
dirk, pistol or some other instrument Of
war.
Arm your boys and arm yourselves uni
vcrsalIy, and that too, with the weapons of
war, for We may be brought to the test to
sec if we will stand up To the line.
wEARE THE STATE
Let me tell You, if God designs that lara
81 should now become free. they will come
and strike the blow, and if He does not. they
will not come. That is ms true as that book
pointing TO the Bble)
60 to work and lay up your grain, and do
not lay il out in fine clothes, nor any other
| kind of fine things, but make homespuE
trousers and peticoais.
What would please me more than for my
family, instead Of wanting me to 90 to the
store for pctticoats and short gowns, to see
them so to work and make some good home
spun? What would be prettier than some
Of the English striped linsey and a bonnet
made of our own straw Those are the
women would choose for wives.
| " you want virtue, 90 into the farming
country, for there it is homcspun. Farming
districts contain the essence and virtue Of
old England.
do not know as YOU know what home
spun H. but it is that which is spun at home,
and il is for your welfare. both IGen women
and children, to make your own clothing
1t l. also for your salvation to equip your
selves according to law
Now will tell you, have about hun
dred shots on hand all the time; ! have
three or II ur hiteen shooters and three or
four rcvolvers right in the room where |
sleep, and the devil does not like to sleep
there for he is afraid they will go off half
| cooked
II You lay bowie knife or revolver un-
der Your pillow at night, YOU will not be
troubled with many unplea SAINT dreams. nor
the nightmare, for there is nothing the devil
Is so much afraid of as tho weapons of
death.
You may take this some Of Heber's
Wild visions, If you please. have acknowl-
eyed myself as one of the people and now
say we Will take our own name, and we
VIII not lie false named any more We are
the kingdom Of God, and We are the State
Of DeSoret. and we will have you, Brother
Brigham, as our Governor, Just so long as
you i've We will not have any other Gov
| ernor.
mean just what l say, and the people
say they will not have any other Governor,
and especially ono that has to come here I'M
der arms, for we consider any MAJ poor
| damned curse that has to come here under
arms to rule us. These are my feelings. and
II anybody votes against it they are not of
US; but there are but four or five but what
vote for us, and they are apostates and will
90 overheard. There is not a child but
what goes with Us in these things
When We reject Brother Brigham Young
we reject the head, but we will not do ii,
for the body shall dwell together, and we
are members of that body, and he shall be
our Governor just so long as God Almighty
will have him to be. Those who are in IA
vor of it, raise your right hands. The
vote was unanimous.
You may try it just as long as you like
and it will be Just so every time, except
those fonr or five; and they will never vote
Can point them outl Yes, can. have
had my eye on them ever since they came
into the congregation.
Brigham himself is equally sanguine, and
not less savage. Here is a specimen of one
ERIGHAMs PROPHECIES
God is at the helm. This is the mighty
ship Zion You stick to the ship and honor
II and SEQ that you are in favor with tn.
ship Zion. and you need not worry ahou,
anything else God has the hearts of In.
children of men in his hands; he puts hooks
in their jaws and turns them about at hi
pleasure. God is here, the Holy Ghost i
mere ana rests upon thls people, and am
witness to it. know that the Holy Ghos
dwells in the hearts of this people; and tn,
world are afraid of the union that exist
among this people. They were afraid o
that in the days of Joseph, and it has beel
their fear all the time. You might take ,
Democrat. a Republican. ranting Metho
dist and an old, iff-necked ranting Presby
terrain and when they come to consider JOS
eph Smith and the Saints, they saw tina
they were one in faith, and it scared then
all. They would say, eve are Methodsts
Baptists and Presbyteribns but we are O
different politics; in our churches NAV b,
found all kinds Of politics, but you, JOSEPH
Smith alter mems politics; you chang.
: them and mako The III o,an