The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-01-02

nasy who vesl1 like to honor 49,. IA
I've have evse aqked for 10 our Cnnstitutioaal
rights. We wish the laws Of cur Ooyssn-
ment honored, and Ne have ever honosed
them, but they arc tranpled under foot By
administration.
There cannot be more damnable. das-
tardly order issued than was issued by the
Administration to this people while thsy
were in an Indian country IN 1916. Before
Ne left Nauso0, ~ Len tkan tuo Unitsd
State Senators cansc 10 receive pIedx6 from
10 that We would leave ths Unfted Btates.
and then while We were doing oar best 70
leave their borders, the poor, 1ou, DEGRADED
curses sent rcquisition for I've hundred Of
our men to 20 and fight their battles! That
was President Polk, and he 10 now weller.
ing in hell with old Zachary Taylor, whore
the present administrators will soon be IL
they do not repent.
Liars have reported that this people have
committed treasons, and upon their lies the
President has ordered out troops to aid il
offering this Territory, and IL those officers
are like many who have previously been sent
here, and we have reason to believe thst they
are, or they would not come when they know
they are not wanted, they are poor, msiera-
bic blacklegs, broken down political hacks,
robbers and whoremongers, men that are not
ct for civilised society, 20 they must dragoon
them upon us for officers. feel that l
won't bear such cursed treatment, and that
is enough to say, for We are just a. free a.
the mountain air.
Ihaye told You that If this people will live
their religion, all will bs we'll; and have
told you that il there is any man or woman
that is not willing to destroy anything and
everything Of their property that would be
OF use to an enemy II left, wanted them to
60 out Of the Territory, and again say 90
to-day, for when the time comes 70 burn and
lay waste our improvements, II any man NM
dertakes to shield his he will be sheared
down, for Judgment will be laid to the
line and righteousness to the plummet.o-,
Now the faint-hearted can 20 IN peace, but
should that time come, they must mot inter-
fere. Before l will suffer what have in
times gone by, there shall not be one build
ing, nor one foot Of lumber, nor stick, nor
a tree, nor particle Of grass or hay, that
will burn, left in reach Of our enemies. l
am sworn, if driven to extremity, to utterly
lay waste, in the name of Israel's God.
Suppose that our enemies send $4,000
troops here, they will have to transport all
that will be requisite to sustain them over
one Winter, for will promise them, before
they come, that there shall not be one par
ticle OF forage nor one mouthful of food for
them should they come. They will have to
bring all their provisions and forage, and
though they start their teams with a. heavy
loads as they can draw, there is no team
that can bring enough to sustain itself, to
say nothing of the men.
| am aware that you want to know what
will be the result Of the present movement
against US. "Mormonism" will take IN al
mighty stride into influence and power,
while our enemies will sink and become
weaker and weaker and he no more, and l
know it just as well now as 1 shall FIVE years
hence. The Lord Almighty wants name
and character, and he will show our enc
mics that he is God and that he has set to
his hand again to gather Israel, and to try
our faith and integrity. And he is saying,
Snow, you my children, dare you take
step to promote righteousness in direct and
open opposition to the popular feelings Of
all the wicked in your Government? II you
do, will fight your battles"
Our enemies had better count the cost,
for if they continue the job they will want
to let it out to sub-contractors before they
get through with it. If they persist in sem
ding troops here want the people IN the |
West and in the East to understand that it |
will not be safe for them to cross the plains. |
On the occasion of the return of Mission |
airy Marsh after an absence of ninteen wears |
years, Brigham had occasion to make an
other speech, in which he was after Buchan- |
an in this: ... . .....
81 will say. in reference to President b.
chanan, that for his outrageous wickedncss
in this movement he shall wear the woke as I
long as he lives he shall be led about BY
his party with the yoke on-his neck, until
they have accomplished their ends and he
can do no more for them, and bis name shall
be forgotten; and 'Old Bright as Brother
kimball calls him, shall be free. am per-
suaded that for their horrible wicked treat
ment to this people-the only loyal people
in the United States, the only people who
know the worth of the Constitution-they
will be sorely punished.
After doing what they had already done
to this people, after sending among us the
filth and scum of all creation (as some of
the officers were) as officers of the Govern
ment, contrary to the genius of our institu-
tons, l want to tell them that though they
continue to send poor pusillanimoas curses
here to be Government officers, we will not
submit to it, troops or no troops. ] shall
tell them this in plainness and simplicity,
and they shall find that in my simplicity
will try to sustain SO righteous position.
And believe that the point is yielded, both
in Europe and America, and believe that
they acknowledge that Brigham is man of
his word, and l have come to the conclusion
that We will not again have officers thrust
upon US contrary to our consent, the Lord
helping u.s."
The Deseret Neus of the 9th Of December,
has the following:
The principles Of our Government are
good, and they will ever be sustained by the
inhabitants of Utah; but an administrative
of those principles, for the express
purpose of forwarding the designs of cor
rupt parties and enslaving American citi-
lens, will eyentuate in the direst civil war
upon record, and the rending of the fairest
fabric ever reared by man.
In free government all just powers, wheth.
or Of taxation, election, representation, or
OF any other rightful description, are justly
based upon the consent of the governed
Continually violate that great principle,
and where, in all the experience Of the past
or good sense Of the present, 10 there any
promise of stability?
American born and reared, knowing our
constitutional rights and privileges, Gas the
Herald admits, governing ourselves strictly
in accordance Herewith, and daring to ad-
vocate and maintain them, it 10 not presu-
IN int