Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-01-23
Late and Important from Utah.

Mormon Preparations for Hostilities-- De-
fant Speeches Of Brigham Young.
On the Sth of October, Brigham Young
delivered speech in the tabernacle in 70
lation to the advance of the United States
troops into the Territory. He said:
As soon as they start to come into our
settlements, let sleep depart from their eyes
and slumber from their. eye-lids until they
sleep in death for they have been warned
and forewarned that we will not tamely SUBJ
NIT to being destroyed. Men shall be
! secreted here and there, and shall waste
away our enemies i'll the name Of Israeps
| God. ar..'i I..ti % =.
In another part of the same discourse he
says: pat;
| Another year | am going to prepare for
the worst, and [ want you to prepare to
cacho our grain and lag aoaste this Territory,
for l am determined, if driven to that ,ex-
tremity, 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 wards are pro-
vided with two or three 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 cf it, though I expect that IN
all probability we will raise great many
crops before our enemies again come here
to disturb US, and l expect we are fully
able to defend ourselves, and that our ene-
mics will not be able to come within hum
dred miles Of us. [ know that ten men.
such as could name and select, could stop
them before they got to Laramie. And Ii
We had seen fit to have sent such men this
season, they alone could very easily have
SO stepped our enemies, that they never
would have got through the Black Hills /
count five such men equal to twenty-five
thousand, and believe that two Of them could
put ten thousand to flight. I believe we
are now where that could be done will
take five or ten such as can name, and il
two can put ten thousand to flight, am
cure that ten are perfectly able to do it,
If they undertake to. send fifty thousand
men to Utah | will venture to say that they
cannot raise so large company in the
United States but what would cut each
others threats before they travelled thous-
and miles across the plains, to say nothing
about any other person molesting them.
They would be cursing, damning and howl
ing all the. way. ] know that the compar-
atively few scattered here and there over
the country and in the mountains, can spoil
their march before they could get here.
1t would seem to be the intention Of the
Mormons, in the event of their defeat. to
burn up and destroy everything in the Ter
ritory, and retire to some other place II
will be recollected that very mysterious
journey to the North was made by Brigham
Young last summer. He took large and
well appointed train with him, and was abb
sent nearly two months. 1t is reported that
he penetrated far into the British posses
sions on the north, and may have been there
settled upon location for colony. Nei-
Their the object nor the result Of that journey
has ever been clearly explained in the MoE-
mon iournal