Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-16

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termined, if driven to that extremity, that our
enemies shall find nothing but heaps of ashes
and ruins. We will be so prepared that in
few days all can be consumed. shall request
the Bishops to see that the people in their ards
are provided with two orthaee years provisions.
There is enough already raised in many places
this season to supply the people from two to
three years, and wish them to take care of it,
though expect that in all probability We will
raise q great many crops before our enemies
again come here to disturb us; and expect
that we are fully able to defend ourselves, and
that our enemies will not be able tie come with
in hundred miles of us. know that ten men,
such as could name and select, could stop
them before they got to Laramie. And if we
had seen fit7to have sent such men this season,
they alone could very easily have so stopped our
enemies that they never would have got through
the Black Hills. Icount live such men equal
to twenty-five thousand, and believe that two of
them could put ten thousand to flight be-
lieve we are now where that could be done.
will take five or ten such as can name, and 1t
two can put ten thausand to flight am sure
that ten are perfectly able to do it
Our enemies in the last treaty they made with
us, should have stipulated that we should have
gone only short distance, so that we would
not be out of their reach. They had better
have made that stipulation, but they did not
have wisdom, or they would have stopped US
from going so far away. They drove us away
from their society and allowed us to travel so far
over the sage plains, that it is impossible for
an army to bring provisions enough to last them
here.
have been told that the first artillery com
pany, upon its arrival at Laramie loaded up all
the grain they could haul to feed their mule
teams, and when they reached the Devils Gate
they sent forward after their grain from their
freight trains, and then they had not enough to
last them to Hams Fork. 1t is impossible for
them to load the teams with sufficient forage to
last themto Green river; and the more men
they send tho more there are to eat up what the
mule and OK trains haul, and the consequence is
that the more men they send the worse tits all
the time.
If they undertake to send fifty thousand men
to Utah will venture to say that they cannot
mise so large company in the United States
but that would cut each others threats before
they travelled thousand miles across the plains,
to say nothing about any other persons moleSt-
ing them. They would be cursing, damning
and bowling all the way. know that the COM
paratiyely few scattered here and there over the
country andin the mountains can spoil their
''.'-. - ''-f~.,a thew could get here!
MORMON DETERMINATION TO LAY WASTE THEIR
TERRITORY.
And do our enemies foolishly imagine that the
Saints will deny their faith, forego the rights
guaranteed by our common Constitution and
every just human law, and tamelY suffer them
selves to be tyrannized over forever? One might
easily suppose that the prompt vacating and
burning our own property would demonstrate
that we have told them the truth, and that there
are principles which we prize far higher than
we do those pcrishable things which they have
set their hearts upon. IL they can take hint,
they may now be satisfied that we arc not going
to be again rode over by mobS, that we have not
been foolng in this matter, and, as President
Buchanan was plainly informed, that we will
not again suffer such Scoundrcl$, as some have
hon IN in ba aT0nf in nc. fIOF
that was all the objection made in the "Memo-
rial and Resolutions" that a high officer in our
Government said "breathed defiant spirit"
and we defy him to find aught of defiance there
in, except to black-hearted corruption.
If the officers and troops, so uselessly, I'M
Justly and illegally ordered to Utah, can now
take the hint and are ready to go back, ceasing,
as they should, to aid corrupt demagogues and
spectators in tyraniZing over American citi-
zens, they will receive every requisite assistance
to enable them to return to where they more
properly belong and to where their services
may soon be really needed. If this just and
liberal proposition be not accepted and acted
upon they haze Glready seen little of qohat
they may expect should they persist in carrying
out the unhallowed designs of corrupt admin
strators of our Government, who are urged
by otfice-hunters, spectators and the devil, to
crush out every constitutional right, every YES
tige of truth and liberty. 49, -
Had the mob now on our borders been the
hypocritcal priests, the lying editors the rotten
politicians and cursed SPECTATORS who have
urged on this movement, they would never have
seen the South Pass. Our brethren have as
yet been restrained from harming those officers
and soldiers, else the late 6dttle 6etween the SOL
diers and the prairie Jfre-which General Har-
ney may record as his 106th-would have been
the prelude to their surrender or being wiped
out To ''cut out the loathsome, disgusting,
ulcer" Government should have sent those who
have, solely for their religion, killed the Proph-
cts, driven women and children, the sick, the
aged and the intirm, time and again in the dead
of Winter, and those who have exuited in such
fiendish conduct, with Stephen. a. Douglas at
their head, and they would long ago have been
food for wolves.
The MAN AND THE HouH-Under this taking
caption, Forney,s paper of Monday contains a
long editorial in laudatiOn of Gov wise's Tam.
many lettcr. The conclusion of said article
runs thus:
ellis letter shines like star through the mist
of the evasions and sophistries which have been
gathered around this Kansas complication, and
nobly harmonizes with his fearless support of
reform in Virginia; his progressive career as