Mariposa Democrat., 1857-12-17
RM0N NDER.

BY the mail which arrived at Los Angeles on the
ith inst from Salt Lake. copies of the Deseret Neos
brought which contain the following specimens
Of Mormon thunder:
From the language in the following extract, taken
from the Neirs Of Oct. l4th it would seem as if the
people of the territory had already commenced the
work Of demolishing their own property. There are
also intimations sufficiently significant that saints or
their red right hand, the Indians-had set the
prairie on fire around the cncampment. 1t says
"And do our enemies foolishly imagine that the
Saints will deny their faith forego the rights guaran-
teed them by Constitution and every Just
human law and tamey suffer themselves to be tyran.
nized over foreverl One might easily suppose that
The prompt racatng and burning Of our property
would demonstrate that we have told them the truth
and that there are principles which we prize far high
than do those pershable things which they have
set their hearts upon. If they can take hint they
may he satisfied that we are not going 10 be again
rode over by mobs-that we have not been fooling in
this matter. and as President buchanan was plainly
informed, that will not again suffer such scoun-
drels have been to again be put in authority
over us, for that all the objection made in the
Memorial and Resolutions which high officer in our
Government said breathed a defiant spirit We defy
him to find aught Of defiance therein except to black
hearted corruption.
:" If the officers and troops uselessy unjustly and
Illegally ordered TO Utah. take the hint and
are ready TO 60 back, ceasng they should, to aid
corrupt demagogues and spectators in tyrannizing
American citizens, they will receive every requ
site assistance to enable them to return to where they
properly belong and to where their services may
soon be really needed. If this just and liberal propo
sition be not accepted and acted upon they have al
ready what they may expect, should they persist
in carrying out the unhallowed designs of corrupt ad
ministrators of Government who are urged by of
cehunte spectators and the devil to crush out ev
cry constitutional right-every vestge Of truth and
liberty.
Had the mob now on our borders been the hypo
critical priests the rotten politicians and cursed spec
ulators who have urged on this movement they would
long ago have been utterly wasted-they would never
have seen the South Pass Our brethren have YET
been restrained from harming those officers and sol
ders else the late battle between the soldiers and the
prairie fre-which Gen. Harvey may record as his
lOGth-would have been the prelude to their surren
der or being wiped out. To cut out the loathsome
disgusting ulcer, Government should have sent those
who have, solely for their religion killed the Prophets
driven women and children the sick, the aged anG
the inirm, time and again in the dead Of winter ant
those who have exulted in such fendish conduct witt
Stephen A. Douglas at their head, and they would
long ago have been food for wolves"
From remarks by President Heber c. Kimba OIL
Sunday, Sept. n, we take the following:
"Those troops seem to feel determined to com,
here. There about 400 of them, and with thel
officers and servants altogether there will be upwards
of 2O00. Captain Van Vliet advised them to turn il
somewhere and fix up and stay for the winter, but HI
had orders about the matter therefore all be coult
do was to give them good COUNSEL but when he foun(
they could not be prevailed upon to take his advice
he told them that if they attempted to come in here
we should slay them. When they heard this, they
shouted with anger aud the next day travelled thirty
miles towards this place; they made two days marcl
in one
Brigham Young says, in a sermon delivered on th'
27th of Sept In relation to those soldiers coming
they never can come so long the Lord God Almgh
ty gives strength TO resist them; and that is NO
althere is man that can rule over this people bu
brigham Young" The congregation shouted amen
AT a meeting in the Bowery, October 9th, Brigham
Young sustained, by the unanimous vote of th'
people, as Prophet, Seer, and Reyeator,"