Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-16
highly Important from utah!
Defiant Speeches of Brigham Young.
DelernaInation % Iay ,vnste &c TerFitory.
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| As but few can be in our offices to learn the
news that is brought in, l will say that on the
/ I'd Friday last, messenger arrived with the m
telligence that the soldiers were going up Hams
Fork. Previous to that had sent by Lleuten-
ant General Wells. a copy of the proclamation
proclaiming martial law and ordering the troops
not to comet here. They treated it as supPo-
sed they would. They say they are sent by the
President, are subject to superior officers, ana
intend to abide their instructions, and lexPect
they viii until some other power checks thcir
! progress
except it is to get u little nearer our enemies,
and for the troops to undertake to come in here.
Ihave told you before, and. tell you now,
that the result will he that Mormonism will be
higher and greater in power than ever 1t was
before Our enemies will sink while VIC in
crease in power and strength, and enjoy an in
fluence that we never enjoyed before, and the
Lord will have His own way In bringing about
these things know that all will be made
right, and an all-wise, overriding Providence
will bring us off victorious. he has led us to
victory and peace, and has given us power and
Influence that we sustain ourselves against
all that can come to annoy, destroy, desolate,
and drive the Saints of God. God will fight
our battles, and BE will dot Just rs he pleases,
On the 9Th of October Brigham Young deliv7
cred the following speech in the Tabernacle, in
relation to the advance of the United States
troops into the Territory. He said:
Ipurpose to have read to you this morning
some of the communications that have passed
between our enemies and ourselves, for the peo-
pie are anxious to know the feelings of the two
parties-they are very anxious to learn the
news am perfectly willing that they should
know all, for my feelings and yours are very diff
ferent from those of the world. You are aware
that among the nations, the soldiers are never
permitted to know anything about the plans of
tho officers; statesmen withhold from their con-
stituents every policy they possibly can, aHd
the statement of one of them is very true per-
tanning to their use of the English language,
Iiint TO- TO secrete ideas instead ofrevealing them.
If the Government or tlo 'uHited States have
for have had no official notice Of such cir!
cumstance, and you will perceive that l treat
them accordingly. If,they are sent by Govern
ment they are sent expressly to destroy this
people; and if they are not sent by the Govern
ment, they have come expressly to destroy this
people; therefore, shall treat them, as l have
informed the officer in command, the same as
though they lrere an dUOtoed rnOb-not as would
those who have heretofore mobbed us, but as
parties who have come to mob US now.
have informed Col. Alexander that, had his
command been the men who have heretofore
mobbed US, and the lying scribblers, and the
wicked rabblc who have all the day long been
trying to incte mobs against us, they never
would have seen the South Pass.
We have sought for peace all the day long,
and have sought for peace with the army now
on your borders, and have warned them thatw
all most firmly believe that they are sent here
solely with aview to destroy this people, though
they may be ignorant of that fact. And though
we may believe that they sent by the Gov
eminent of the United States yet / as Govern
| or of this Territory have no business to know
any such thing, until am notified by proper
authority at Washington l have right to
treat them as mob, just us though they had
been raised and Differed in Missouri and sent
here expressly to destroy thispeople. Wehave
been very merciful and very lenient to them
| As informed them in my unofficial letter, had
they been those mobocrats who mobbed us in
Missouri, they never would have seen the South
| Pass We had plenty of boys on hand, and the
mode of warfare they would have met with they
are not acquainted with.
1 would Just as soon tell them us tell you of
my mode of warfare. AS the Lord God lives
we will waste our enemies by millions, il they
send them here to destroy us, and not man of
us to be hurt That is the method I intend to
pursue. Do you want to know what is going
to be done with the enemies now on our bor-
dess2 If they come here will tell you what
I will be done. AS soon as they start to come in
to our settlements let sleep depart from their
eyes and slumber from their eyeds, until they
sleep in death, for they have been warned and
Iforewarned that we will not talnely Sumbit to
being destroyed. Men shall be secreted here
anu lllCiG WASTE away GIieItli0S, III
the name of Israel's God.
Col. Alexander complains of our mode of
warfare. They have two or more fell batteries
of artillery with them, and they want us to
form line of battle in an open plain ind give
them fair chance to shoot us di, not tell
the Colonel, what thought, but if e had
spark of sense he must be fool to think that
we will ever do any such thing. an, going to
observe the old maxim:
"TIs that nights and runs away,
Lives to tight another day"
Should our enemies venture upon violent
measures, design to so manage affairs that none
of our boys will be killed, aud in my answer to
the Colonel have told him pretty plainly what
we shall do under certain contingencies
The boys report their order of march to he,
the Tenth Infantry in front, the baggage in the
centre, the Fifth Infantry in the rear, and seve-
| raj fianking companies travelling through the
brush as best they can. Don't you think they
would look well coming from the United States
in that way? That is the way in which they
were travelling at our last advices, and it was
said that their picketguard declared they would
not watch.
If the soldiers knew the facts in the case as
do their officers, they would probably nearly all
leave tie army; but the officers keep the soldiers
! in the park. The last report is that the officers