Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1858-01-27
WEEKLY BIJGIE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY =, lsss
Letter % REkghaEn K@mmg go
EmM6ma1 Alexhmae4s
uFeaf Sat- LAks Uafys
Utah TawTstarw. Oct. IESAh. lSs7

VI
80 $50 this mornfng, and embFeAs q
earliest oppassanisy % reply cut Of c0nr
eay 70 Jour p0sstisn as tAis lasa ssaso
af she year.
As yan ufzsiatiy allsge It, aekaew,
edge that you and ahe EsEees undaE yoE
= command have been sent 10 this TsryisS
~ by ths President Oh she United Ssals,
bat we shall txaAi you as tho yea vel
open enemies, because have Sc aan
times sean aE1aies in ear eoansgy. unde
color Of Law, drive this peapls eommas
ly sEYlea MnEmons fran their hame,
whila mobs hava followed and plunAage
N thsiE pleasure, which ia Rew m0ss sh
Vionsiy ths design OF lhe aenexaI Cos
sssnmsna, a. ali candid thinking men kns,
fall we'll Were hos sach che fact, wh
did not khe government send rs aa ara
@ protset as from the sAYagaa wkan v
arst settled hsss, md weFa poor aasd keu
il namAeEaS So cantraxY to this. "a
their ecnrses fiat shsy aens an ilsgargsa
Tsquisition fer 500 az oar haas zaan waI i
we weFe in an Indian eounsxY. and ssri
wing 60 teavs the hogasra az the Unlssl
States, from which ita civilization lsl ~
drives asl with preooneertsa view Il
cripple and destroy ~, And 40 you fane,
Ter g nsoEzeat that We do rot fully under
stand tia tender (fD mssOiea and design
ot Jour government against asg again
Il any array wAs ordered hare for psace
Tm purposes t0 protect and preserve sh,
nights and Lives OF the innocent, why die
government gand here &hs troops with.
drawn fFem Minnesota, WHARF shs LMdi,
ans we're slAugAtsring nsn, women saG
ehildEsa, aad we're banding in Large nan
bers to lay waste the eountryp
4oq say that 10 isA aione IN mF gubeT.
natoFist capaeity that you hass any ba.
inssa With me, though gouRe romnand.
ing ofhesr, Breves Brlgadiss Generni Hsl
ney, addressed ais letter by Captain al
tIeit TO president Brigham Young, oi
the seciesy sf MoFnons."
You acknowledge the receipt af nY oF-
nelai pFoela mAtion lorbidding year en-
trance into the Territory Of Utah, and
upon that point have only 10 inform you
that the matter set forth in thai doeu-
mant is true, and the orders therein Sons
tanned will be most strictly carried uat.
If you come here for peaceful puEpo-
ses, ysu have no use for weapons OF war,
We wish, and eTer have wished for peace,
and hgvs ever sued fer it all the day
4onE, as our bitteFast enRmies know fan
well; and though the wicked, with the ad-
ministratiou now at their head, have de-
termined that we shall have no peace az
cept il be lie down in death, in the name
OF IsEael's God We will hare peace, even
though ws be compelled By 0ur enemies
to light for it.
We have as yet studiousiy avoided the
shedding Of blood, though We have re-
sorted-tO measures 20 resist our enemies,
and through tbs operation OF those mild
measures yoa can easily perceive that
you aud your troops ara nov at tha msr-
cy VI the elements, and that We live in
the ERUuntsiRs aad eur mcn are all mouu-
taineers. This the governments should
know, and aIs0 give us our rights and
let u2 alone.
As to the style Of those measures, past
present or future, persons acting in self
defence have Of right wide scope for
choice, and that, too, without being very
careful as to what nams theiT enemies
may see fl TO term GhRt choice, for beth
we aud the kingdom of God will be free
from all bellish Oppressors, the Lord be-
ing our helper. Threatenings to waste
and sxterminAss this people have been
sounded in our ears for more than Q
score Of years, and we yet live. The Ii
on Of tbs Lord Is here, and wicked men
and devils cannot destroy 1t.
IL you persist in your attempt 80 per-
mansnly loeats aR army in this Terri
tory, contrary 10 the wishes and eonsti-
sloHal rights of the people therein, and
with view to aid the Administration IN
their unhAlloWsd efforts to palm their
corrupt officials upon US, aud TO protest
them and biacklsgs, blackhearted se0un-
drels, whorsmastRrs and murdsxeTs, as
was the sole intention in sending yoa and
your troops here, you viii have TO meet
q mode Of warfare against which your
s&eticts furnish you no iRfoEIaAtion.
As TO your inference concerning a'pHb-
lie and private letters" il soutains an
unganEiemanly and false insinuaGion; for
so far as have any knowledge, the on
ly stopping or dstaiRing Of the character
yon mention has alone bean done by the
Post Office Department in Washington !;
they having, as you must have known,
stopped our mail fFsm Independence,
Missouri, by which twas but fair 70 pre-
sumo that you, as we'll as We, we're msas-
urably curtailed in mail facilities
In regard to myself and certain others
having placed ourselves s'in position
Of rebellion and hostility TO tho goVaSn-
Inent Of the .. s." an perfectly aware
thaE Bs understand our true and most
loyal position far better than ouE ems
mics Gan inform as, We Of all the pao-
pie are endeayoriug 10 preserve and psr-
petaats The genius Of the ConsE2Epaio0
and constitutional laws. while the @d-
ministrations and the troops they have
ordsred to Utah are, 10 fact, themselves
the rebels, and in hostility TO the gsAeE-
81 goysRnmant. And If George Wash
ington was nos living and at the heIm
Of cur government, ha would hang the
admiufstFeGion as high as he did Andre,
and that, toos with far better grace,
and 70 much greater degree sahsaEYing
the best interests Of ear country.
Yoa write, SIT become you TO lock to
the consequences; for you must be aware
that 60 unsqual contest csa never be
successfully sustained By the people yaa
govern" We have counted ths cost Ii
may be 10 Us. We look for she Unilsd
SGases 10 sndssyar 70 swallow Us np, and
we are prepared for the contest, ii Ehsy
wish TO forego the constitution in their
insane efforts to crush out all humga
rights. Bus the cost Of 90 suicidal :
coarse Of our enemies We have RsG wASta
ed our time in considering rightly, dsen-
ing it mozs particularly their business
10 figure oaf sRd arrive at ahe amount
of se immsnRs Q sHa. Il is nov tbs
kinadum Of God and the Kingdom of tbs
devil. IL God is for Us, we viii prOs.
psr bat if ks il fog you and against as
you will pEospar, Amd we will say -
HAman | lei the Lord he God, and Hin
alone we viii serve"
As TO your obeying ssorders, e gy Oh
eial counsel to you would be foE yoH 4
stop and reflect Until yoH kassw WhsEsii
are the jast and the Fsghl, and thea, Da
vld CTockek Like, ga ahsad. But il 20,
undertake. 10 coms I'D here ard bulls
forss, rest assured thAa yoa will be op
posed, and that yea will need all shl
foFae nov uadsx yoMg aammand, mns
mash mare. And IN regaTd ts you
warmtng, hawe 10 inform yUa thas u,
he&d has bsen sought dariAg iaAay ysaE
uass--nos for any egIms sE Iny part, D
for 30 Enuoh a. esen the wish to eosnmi
crime, buE solely EoE mJ religious be
lief and that tee Ii q land of pEofsssal
eonstitutional religious hhsrty
Inasmuah as y0a consider year fers
amply salNeiena 10 snabis goa 20 eons
TO this city, wig b@Ss yoa so unsissI