Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-31
Home views of the Mormons.

and the questions connected Herewith.
President Heber Kimball delivered ser
mon Sept. goth, at the Bowery, in which
the great effort was to impress upon tht
people that Brigham Young holds the keys
of light and truth, and the necessity of i'm
piicitly obeying him.
THE DEVIL Is COMING WITH ALL HIS FORCES
VIII our enemies come among US! They
won't come this year, they may try as
much as they please.
President B. Young, Except we lei
them in."l
No never can they come here, except We
let them.
Well, as the evil is measurably turned
away this year, if the Saints will be faithful
they will be foiled next year, and ther
more abundantly the year after that and SC
on; but they will keep sending theG troop:
and forces from year to year and from time
to time, and you need not lay down YOU
watch. The day has come when the devi
is coming with all his combined forces; he
has laid siege against the kingdom O.
God, and it never will cease till this king
dom triumphs.
1t is for you to be just as good judges
of the truth as 1 am, and you will be if the
truth dwell in you.
WIVES ENOUGH TO WHIP UNCLE SAM.
Do 1 want 10 shed the blood of my
brethren and sisters or to see it shed? No
and neither do you unless the Holy Ghost
dictates for us to shed the blood of our en-
emies, then it is just as right as it is for us
to partake of the sacrament. But l wish
they would take the hint and 60 the Other
way and not attempt to come here. We
do not want to hurt them, but if they come
upon US ard we have to repel them by
force of arms, God Almighty will give us
the power to do it; now mark it.
You know 1 said l had wives enough to
whip the United States and why? Be-
cause they will whip themselves, and my
wives would not have to resist them.
This is good day, and what is there
for us to do? 1t is for us to take course
to lay up our grain, our corn, our barly and
our oats.
THEY SHALL SUFFER ALL THAT WE HAVE
l have said for years that never, no new
er again will be subject to such cursed
scoundrels as the United States Govern
ment have sent here as officers. I say, in
the name of Israel's God, will not.
TVoices. &c mannl
James Buchanan now occupies the chair
of state; he and his counselors, his coad-
jutoas, his cabinet and congress have met
and planned the destruction Of this place,
of br. Brigham and his associates in partic-
ular, and the priests of the day say amen
to it, and the whole people of the United
States are under condemnation. They
consented to the death of Joseph, Hyrum,
David, Farley and lots of r,en, women and
children from Nauvoo TO this place, and
the world have consented to ii, and they
say it is just.
When we were poor and lived on cow
hides and cattle, skunks and thistle roots,
br. Brigham and his brethren padded this
way and that way and sought out this
place.
While we were in Winter Quarters, 500
men were demanded; they travelled over
the plains and gained part of Mexico,
which is this land. Then came grasshop-
pers and crickets and eat up our crops and
our enemies have all the time been saying
that it is just, they deserve it.
Now, brethren, if you can comprehend
what have said, they shall suffer all that
We have, and it shall be doubled upon them,
and then it shall be pressed down.
PUT IN YOUR BUsTLEs.
We want the ladies to bring in their sur
plus clothes for br. Eddington to sell for
wheat and other grain. ] speak of the fe-
males because they have got the most
clothes in their hands. If you have got
five dresses, hand two over to him and let
him buy wheat, corn, barley, pork, mutton,
tallow, &C., and then he will pay you in
those articles for your coats: jackets, pam
falcons and bustles! Just put in your
bustles there and get them full of wheat
instead of bran.
Go and take your clothes, and do not
be afraid that you will never get any more,
for let me tell you that if you will lay up
these stores you will have clothing till it
shall be drug and trouble to you.
Elder Wilford preached in the Bowery,
Sunday, Sept. 27th.
THE UNITED STATES WILL BE SHATTERED.
We have as good leaders as we need
There never was better leader given to
Israel, nor one more capable of leading
this people to salvation, than Brigham
Young; he is filled with the Spirit of God
day by day.
If the United States make War upon
this people, the Lord will hold them re-
sponsible for it, and the measure they
mete will be measured unto them again,
and if they are ripe and the cup of their
iniquity full they will be shattered to
pieces, their union broken up and destroy
ed. They will be visited with thunder
and lightning and hail and the judgments
of God, and every man that will draw his
sword against his neighbor will be obliged
to flee TO Zion.
They are sending their armies here to
destroy us, but l ask no man to weep for
Utah or spend their sympathy for US, not
even my relatives or the priests, the doc
tors, lawyers, or editors. No, not even
one soul, from the president of the United
States down through the whole nation,
who have given consent to our death, for
they have plenty to bear themselves and
their children. The Lord will teach them
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