The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05
WESTERN DEMOCRAT,
Charlotte, N C.
BRIGHAM YOUNG ON UNCLE SAM

BRIGHAM YOUNG ON UNCLE SAM
Brigham Yonng has been making some
speeches, of which the following are ex-
| tracts:
Brigham. on the Utah rpedition-resistance
| to the troops.
This people are free; they are not in
bondage to any government onG od,s ,s4oot-
stool. We have transgressed no laSs and
we have no occasion to do so, neither do
we intend to but as for any natien's COM
ing to destl ~ this people, God Almighty
being my helper, they cannot come here.
| THE congregation responded by a loud
Amen. That is my feeling upon that
point.
l do not often get angry, but when I do
am righteousiy angry. and the bosom of the
Almighty burns with anger towards those
scoundrels, and they shall be consumed, in
the name of Israeps God. We have borne
enough of their oppression and hellish abuse
and we will not bear any more of it, for
there is no just law requiring forbearance
ON our part. And I am not going 70 have
troops here to protect the priests and he'll
lish rabble in efforts to drive US from the
land we possess for the Lord does not want
us to be driven, and has said. .'if you will
assert your rights and keep my command
ments, you shall never again be brought
into bondage by your enemies"
Faith recommended to the saints.
If there was perfect union of our faith,
our enemies never could cross the Rocky
Mountains, or if they undertake to come
some other way they never could cross the
Sierra Nevada Mountain, nor the Basin Rim
on our North, nor the desert on the South.
But says one, Il want to fight" Do all
such persons know that they are right!
The sending the troops declared unconsti-
tutional.
If you do your duty in this respect you
need not be afraid of mobs, nor of forces
sent out in violation of the very genius of
free institutions, holding you till mobs kill
you. Mobs Yes, for where is there the
least particle of authority either in our con-
stitution or laws, for lsending troops here,
or even for appointing civil officers con-
trary to the voluntary consent of the gov
ernment. We came here without any help
from our enemies, and we intend to stay as
long as we please.
Brigham defeS them.
They say that their army is legal. and
say that such a statement is as false as hell
and that they are as rot:on as an old pump
;,,f hot
then melted in a harvest sun. Come on with
your thousand illegally ordered troops,
and will promise you, in the name of Isra-
els God, that you shall melt away as the
snow before July sun.
Permission to return TO the United States
If it were any use l would ask whether
there is one person in the congregation who
wants to go to the United States, but know
should not find any. But will pledge
myself, that if there is man. woman, or
child that wants to go back to the United
States, if they will pay their debts and not
steal any thing, they can go; and if they
are poor and honest we will help them to
go.
When was written to in Nauvoo by the
President ofthe United States, through an
other person, inquiring, 'where are you
going Mr.. Young?" Ireplied that 1 did
not know where we should land. We Lad
men in England trying to negotiate for
Vancouver's Island, and we sent ship load
of saints round Cape Horn to California.
Men in authority asked where are you going
tor We may 60 to California or to Vancouv-
er's Island" When the Pioneer company
reached Green river, we met Samuel Bran
nan and few others from California, and
they wanted US to go there. l remarked
let US go to California, and we cannot stay
there over five years but let US stay in the
Mountains and we can raise our own pota-
toes and eat them; and l calculate to stay
here. We are still on the back bone of the
animal where the bone and sinew are, and
we intend to stay here, and all hell cannot
help themselves.
We are not to be prosecuted as we have
been. We can say, "Come as mob, and
we can sweeten you up right suddenly
They never did any thing against Joseph
till they had ostensibly legalized mob, and
shall treat every army and every armed
company that attempts to come here as
mob. THE congregation responded Amen
Wrongs apon the Mormons.
There cannot lie a more damnable, das-
tardly order issued than was issued by the
administration to this people, while they
were in an Indian country in 1876. Before
we left Nauvoo, not less than two United
States Senators came to receive pledge
from us that we should leave the United
States, and then while we were doing our
best to leave their borders, the poor, low.
degraded curses, sent requisition for FIVE
hundred lof our men to 60 and fight their
battles That was President Polk. and he
is now weltering in hell with old Zachary
Taylor, where the present administration