The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-01-09
The Recommendations Youngss Sine
Qua Non---The Kingdom Of God or
Nothing.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %.
Col. Johnston's dispatches also state that
the communications of the Mormons, and
the acts OF the legislative assembly, show
matured and settled plan to hold and occupy
the territory, Independent and irrespective
OF the authority of the United States, occu.
pying, as they do, the attitude of rebellion
and open defiance to the government, con-
nected with numerous overts acts of treason.
Colonel Johnston has ordered that whenever
they are met with in arms, they may be treat
ed as eLemies, and he reiterated the necessity
for prompt and vigorous action, or the United
States must submit to usurpation of their
territory.
The conduct of the Mormons he says re-
suits from settled determination on their
part not to acknowledge the authority of the
United States nor any other outside of their
church. He adds, supply of subsistence
must reach the army by the first of June.
The officers and men are reported to be in
fine health, and animated with an ardent de-
sire to discharge their duties faithfully.
In postscript, Col. j. says the army has
made one days march since the 5th, and that
on the 7th they were waiting the arrival of
the trains delayed by the snow the day be-
fore. Our trains, he adds, occupy in as close
an order as they can travel, the road, from l3
to IA miles, therefore the rear cannot move
till late in the day.
Brigham Young's letter of October 10th
to Col. Alexander, after much defiant lam
guage, says: "By virtue of my office as
Governor of the Territory of Utah, COM
mand you to marshal your troops and leave
this Territory, for it can be of no possible
benefit to you to waste treasure and blood in
prosecuting your course upon the side of re.
belion against the general government by its
administration. You have had and still have
plenty of time to retire within reach of sup
lies at the east, or to 60 to Fort Hall.
"Were you and your fellow officers as
we'll acquainted with your men as am with
mine, and did they understand their work
they are engaged in as well as you may un-
derstand it, you must know that many of
them would undoubtedly revolt from all con-
nection with so ungodly, illegal, unconstitu-
tional and hellish crusade against an innocent
people, and if their blood is shed, it shall rest
upon the heads of the commanders; with us
it is the Kingdom of God or nothing"
In another letter to Col. Alexander, Brig
ham Young says the President of the Unit
ed States SO far degrades his high position,
and prostitutes the highest gift of the people
so as to make use of the military power, BY
sending troops not only for the protection of
the peoples rights, but to crush the peoples
liberties and compel them to receive officials
so lost to self-respect as to accept appoint
ments against the known and expressed wish
Of the people, and SO craven and degraded as
to need an army to protect them in their po-
sition. We feel that we would be recreant
to every principle of selfrespect, honor, in
tesrity and patriotism to bow tamely to
such tyranny, parallel to which is only
found in the attempts made by the British
Government in the most corrupt stages
against the rights, lives, and liberties of our
forefathers. If our real enemies, the mobo-
Gratis, editors, priests and politicians at
whose instie alton the present storm has been
gathered, and come against US instead of you
and your command, would not have ad-
| dressed them thus.