The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-14

use Of the English iansuAse-hai 70 secrete ideas in
II the sovernmsut OF the United States have sent sol
diers 70 this Territory do moi know IT, for have had
official notice Of such Giro INSTANCE, and you will
BY they are sent expressly 70 destroy this
peope and they are not sent by the government they
have come expressly 70 destroy This people; therefore
msnd the same as though they were avowed mob
Not as would those who heretofore mobbed u.s. but
a parties who have come 10 mob now.
have Informed Colonel Alexander that had his
msnd been the men who have heretofore mobbed and
the lying scrbblers and the wicked rabbe who have all
the day long been trying 70 ince mobs against they
never would have seen the South Pass.
We have sought for peace al the day long and have
have them that ali most firmly believe that
they are sent here solely with view 70 destroy this
we may Believe that they are sent by the government Of
the United States, yet rs Governor Of this Territory
have no business to know any such thing until am mott
fled by proper authority at Washington. have right 10
treat them mob, just though they had been raised
and ocered in Missouri and sent here expressly TO de-
sroy this people We have been very mercu and very
lenient them. As informed them in my unofficial let
ter had they been those mobocrats who mobbed US in
Missouri they never would have seen the South We
had plenty OF boys hand and the mode or warfare they
would have met with they are not acquainted with
would just tell them TO tell you Of my mode
OF warfare. As the Lord God lives we will waste our
enemies by millions, if they send them here to destroy
us and not Of US be hurt That is the method
intend to pursue DO you sod 10 oO ,ch0t going TO be
done Nth he enemies nom on our borders? they come
here W tell you hdt to be done As soon as they start
20 come into oar settlements LET sleep depart from e.r eyes
they hare been harmed and toreoayred that ,c
tan,ey submit TO being destroyed Men shall be secreted here
and there and shall todste doy our enemies IN tie name
Col Alexander complains of mode of warfare. They
have two more field batteries of artillery with them
and they want to form line of battle in open plain
and give them fair chance to shoot us did not tell the
Colonel what thought, but he had spark Of sense he
must he fool to think that will do any such
thing. l am going to observe the old maxim
He that fights and runs away
Should our enemies venture upon violent measures
design to manage affairs that OF our boys will be
killed, and in answer to the Colonel have told him
pretty plainly what We shall do under certain contngen
cies.
The boys report their order of march be- the Tenth
infantry nfront the baggage in the CENTRE the Fifth in
fantry in the and several hankng companies travel
ling through the brush best they Don't you think
they would lock well coming from the United States in
that wayY That is the way in which they travelling
at last advces and said that their picket guard
declared they would not watch.
II the soldiers knew the facts in the do their
officers they would probably nearly all leave the army;
but the officers keep the soldiers the dark The last
report that the officers had been telling the that
had written very favorable letter 10 Col Alexander and
that they were intending to come in.
When think they in your houses, are they in your
fields, can answer no. they are in the mountains they
the cold and snow and if they continue those
officers appear TO intend To, upon the side of despotsm
aud mobocracy they justly ought to be served as we
would serve all mobocrats. But we are here and we are
Free Brother Kibal has said, just as free, in one
sense shall be.
Colonel Alexander preached to lttle stating in his
letter warn you that the blood shed in this contest
will be upon your head" but that warning gave
thought But If the blood of those soldiers shed will
be upon the heads of their officers.
what they will do neither care, for will be
just the Lord God wills it. II He that need
their substance He will turn things TO that end and He
designs them to be wiped out He will either them
oundertake to come here, or VIII override some other
plan 10 accomplish that end.
Another year going to prepare for The ,oora and
Territory for lam determined II driven TO that extremity,
that enemies shall find notng bM heaps Of ashes and
aT We he ~ ne 80 sSa rass the rev RsSaps
to see that the people N their wards are provided
enough already raised in many places this season
supply the people from two to three years, and wish
them to take of it, though expect that in all proba
bi,y we will great many crops before enemies
again come here TO disturb us and expect that
fully able defend ourselves, and that epemes will
not be able 10 come within hundred miles of US Ino,o
hat ten men, such could and select could stop
them before they pot 10 Laramie And we had seen tit TO
have sent such this season, they alone could very
would have got through the Black Hills | count
five such equal to twenty thousand, and be-
ievc that two OF them could put ten thousand TO fight.
l believe are now where that could be done will
take five ten such can name and two can put ten
thousand to flight am sure that ten are perfectly able to
do II.
Our enemies. in the last treaty they made with US,
should have stipulated that We should hio gone only
short distance so that would not be out their reach.
They had have made that stipulation butthey did
did have wisdom, they would have stopped Us from
going so far away They drove us away from their so
cety, and allowed 10 travel far over the sage
plains tina, is impossible for army bring proyi
sons enough 20 last them here.
have been told that the first artillery company, upon
arrival laramie loaded up all the grain they could
haul to feed their mule teams and when they reached
he DEVILS Gate they gent forward after their grain from
their freight trains aud then they had enough 10 last
them 10 Hams Fork. II is impossible for them 10 load
up teams with sufficient forage TO last them to Green
river; and the they send the more there
up what the mules aud OK trains haul and the con
sequence is that the more men they send the worse Is
all the time
If they undertake to send fifty thousand men to Utah.
will venture 20 say that they cannoi raise so large
company in the United States but what would cut each
others throats before they travelled thousand miles
the plains 90 nothing about any other persons
molestin, item. They would be cursng, damnng and
howln a. the way. know that the comparatively few
scattered here and there the country and in the
mountains, can spoil their march before they could get
here.
We also perceive that the proposition to declare Brigham
Young "Prophe Seer and Reveator Of the Mormon PEG.
pie sustained unanimously in Tabernacle.
from the Los Angeles Star of Dec. 81
Yesterday the salt Lake mail arrived in this city. We
are IN receipt OF the Desere Neios Of Oct 14th and 2st
There some Indications that hostilites have com.
menced, but nothing OF positive Character contained
We give the following extracts from which il will ap.
pear that Brigham and the Saints stu speak dehanty OF
the UnieG ates and threaten opposition 10 the troops
should they continue their march for the city appears
however that Notwithstanding these threats, the army
marching forward VIGOROUSLY
Remarks BY President Brigham Young, Bowery Sunday,
October 4, 1857
missed
As but few be Office 10 learn the that Is
brought In will say that the ID, Friday last,
seDRer arrived with the intelligence that the soldiers
going up Hams Fork. Previous 10 that had sent by
Lieutenant General Wells copy OF the proclamation pro
claiming martial law and ordering the troops not
here they treated IL as / supposed they would They
they sent by the Presden subject TO superior
officers aud intend TO abide by their instructions, and
expect they will until other power checks their pro
gress
do not know that ybodys heart burns, except IL is
TO get little enemies, and for the troops 10
undertake 10 come in here
have told you before and tell you now that the re
suit will be that Mormonism will be higher and greater In
power than uw before. Our enemies will sink
while increase IN power and strength, and enjoy
influence that enjoyed before and the Lord will
have his own way bringing about these things. know
that all will be made right, ant all wise, overriding
Providence will bring of victorious He has led 70
victory and peace and has given power and influence
that sustain ourselves against all that come
10 annoy, destroy desolae ADD tho saints OF God
God will eight our battles, and he will DO Il Just he
peases.
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