The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-05-01
Later from Utah.

Later from Utah.
By the way Of California, dates from
Utah to the 9th Of February, have been re-
csived. The Los Angeles Slar gained the
following information from two teamsters,
from Fl. Bridger, who passed through Salt
Lake on their way to California ~
They state that about Jan. 20, an order
was issued by the Church that the people
should have boxes made to contain about
$50 pounds, to pack their grain in them
and bring them to the Elders, who would
take charge of them and cache" them in
the mountains.
Another order was issued, that company
of 1000 men should hold themselves in
readiness to 20 into the mountains on the
18th February, and cut off supplies coming
to the Army. a.Ha 80 g-
In the meantime, forty wagons loaded
with supplies had reached Col. Johnston's
command from Fort Laramie. The Army
was in good health, had plenty of provisions,
and good tents and was engaged in rebuild
ing Fort Bridger. r.
The authorities of Salt Lake City are
represented as being inclined still for war.
Measures are being concerted for defeating
the United States troops, or, at all events,
keeping them outside the city till the crops
are gathered and secured. This can easily
be done, unless force is sent from this
side. -"r .a-..i. -. .aat'
MASS MEETINGS TO SUSTAIN BRIGHAM. ~
Mass meetings have been held in all the
various districts and towns Of Utah, express
i've of the peoples entire confidence in
BRIGHAM You've, and the approval Of his
acts and those of the Territorial Assembly.
The principal meeting called for this pur-
pose, was held at Salt Lake City on the 10th
of January. Mayor SxoAr presided. At
this meeting, Committees reported two ad-
dresses,-one addressed to the President of
the United States, and the other to Congress:
The Address to the President sets forth
the grievances Of the Saints, and denies in
toto the charges of resistance to law. We
make an extract or two from this document,
the first being
DECLARATION OF GRIEVANCES.
l. The Government have not made trea-
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Just dues.
2. They have heretofore appointed officers
to preside over our welfare whose very pres
enee, it is widely known, was an outrage on
common decency.
3. We petitioned, through our Assembly,
to have good men for rulers and declared
that such would have been courteously re-
ceived and strictly obeyed, but it was plainly
| OF nd hot ,poh
had been previously, they would be sent
hack.
4. Because our Legislators dared to ex-
ercise the right of petition, we are denied
mail facilities and branded as traitors.
5. The reports Of the returning officials
about the injustice of our Courts, the break
ing up of the Supreme Court and the rebell-
| ion of the Mormons, are as base falsehoods
as were ever Matched in hell or propagated
by the devil.
THE ADDRESS TO CoNGEss.
The Address to Congress is much longer
and not more civil. 1t is signed by a diff
ferent set of men and gives historical
view of the progress of the Territory. The
following are extracts:
'Gentlemen, who are we? Have we the
rights of men, or arc we dogs? Why, the
meanest serf that cringes beneath the lash
of Russian despotism is better protected in
| his rights than we are. And who are you?
that we must bow in craven servility to
such high handed acts, of usurpation, des-
potism and treason? Have you so soon
forgotten the declaration of our fathers,
which ought to be indelibly engraven in liv-
ing characters on the heart Of every Ameri-
can, that all men are created equal that
they have the right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit Of happiness: that, to secure those
| rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their JUST powers from the
CONSENT of the governed; that whenever any
| form of government, becomes destructive
of those ends, it is the right of the people
to alter or abolish it,"
A SOLEMN OATH.
ssOur choice, for Governor, is BRIGHAM
YOUNG, and that choice is unanimous. Have
nearly hundred thousand American citi-
zens no right of franchise? Must they be
dra.ooned into seryile obelsance to the will
cut off from having voice in the selection
of those who are to rule US? We used to
vote in other places where, when. and by
we not cause for complaint? When you
reject our Governor, you reject US. You
| treated with contempt, the petition of our
Legislature; when you did that, you treated
us with contempt, for they were neither
elected by stump speeches, cabals, nor log
rolling; they were the unanimous choice of
the people who send them. Shall we tamely
submit to such high handed aggressions up
on our rights, and become the mean, servile
dogs of tyranical Administration We
declare, in the face of High Heaven, God
being our helper, We will not"
RENEWAL OF THE THREAT TO LAY WASTE.
The same meeting adopted long series
of resolutions, among which was this:
Resolved, That, inasmuch as we have
many times been driven from our homes,
and our farms and habitations having fallen
into the hands of our prosecutors, and they
permitted to enjoy them in peace, we are
determined that henceforth our enemies
shall not possess the fruits Of our labor;
for we will burn and utterly destroy every
thing we possess; and that our now COM
Portable homes shall again become barren
waste, as we found It in the year ls47,
rather than hostile enemy shall inhabit our
duce of our farms and orchards.
BRIGHAM on MORMON RESOURCES.
The following are extracts from a spicy
discourse of BRIGHAM YOUNG, delivered on
the 18th of January:
Scan we feed and clothe ourselves? Yes,
we can, as we'll as any people on earth. We
have a goodly share Of the genius, talent,
and ability Of the world; and it is combined
in the Elders of this Church and in their
families. And if the Genties wish to see
few tricks, we have Mormons that can
perform them. We have the meanest devils
on earth in our midst, and we intend to keep
them, for we have use for them and if the
devil does not look sharp, we will cheat
him out Of them at last, for they will reform
and 60 to heaven with US.
We have already showed the invading
army few tricks, and told Captain VAN
VLEIr that if they persisted in making war
upon US, should share in their supplies
The boys would ride among the enemy's