Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-26
STATE DEMOCRAT.

Davenport, Jan 70, 1855.

DEFIANT Speeches Of Brigham Young
In the Tabernacle on the 4th O
Oct, Brigham Young made the follow
ing report:
4 will say q few words before the
congregation is dismissed
As but few q be in our offices te
learn the news that is brought in, ]
will say that on the I'd, Friday last, q
messenger arrived with the intelligence
that the soldiers we're going up Ham.
FORK. Previous to that ! had sent by
Lieutenant General Wellsa copy 0.
the proclamation proclaimingthat mar
tial law and ordering the troops not to
come here. They treated it as ! supo.-
ed they would. They say they are sen,
by the President, are subject to superb
or officers, and intend to abide their
instructions, and expect they will un-
til some other power checks their pro-
gress.
/ do not know that anybody's heart
burns except it is to get q little nearer
our enemies, and for the troops to un-
certake to come in here.
have told you before, and l tell
YOU now, that the result will be that
Mormons will be higher and greater in
power than ever it was before. Our
enemies will sink while We increase in
power and strength, and enjoy an in
f.aence that we never enjoyed before,
and the Lord will have His " way
in bringing about these things. /
know that all will be made right, and
an all-wise o~verruling Providence will
bring us off victorious. he has led us
to victory and peace, and has given us
power and influence that we can sus-
tain ourselves against all that can come
to annoy, destroy, desolate and drive
the Saints Of God. God will fight u
battles, and He will do just as He
pleases."
On the sth Of Oct, Brigham Young
delivered the following speech in the
Tabernacle in relation to the advance
of the United States troops into the
Territory. He said :
! purposed to have read to you this
morning some Of the communications
which have passed between our enc
mics and ourselves, for the people are
anxious to know the feelings Of the
two parties-they are very anxious to
learn the news. am perfectly will
ing that they should know all, for my
and yours are very different
from the rest of the world. You arc
aware that among the nations, the'sol-
dicrs are never permitted to know any
thing of the plans of the officers,
statesmen withhold from their con-
stltuents every policy they possibly
can, and the statement of one of them
is very true pertaining to their use of
the English language, that is to secretcs
ideas instead of revealing them.
IT the Government of the United
States have sent soldiers to this Teri
toro, ! do not know it, for | have had
no official notice ofsuch a circumstance
and you will perceive that | treat them
accordingly. ii they are sent by gov
eminent, they are sent expressly to de-
stroy this people and if they are not
sent by the government, they have
come expressly to destroy this people;
| shall treat them, as | have
informed the officer in command, the
same a. if they were an avowed mob
not as l would those who have hereto
fore mobbed us, but who have come to
mob MS now.
have informed Col. Alexander that
had his command been the men who
have heretofore mobbed us, and the
|ying scrtbblcrs and wicked raoble who
all the day long been trying to
lncite mobs against us, they never
have seen the South Pass.
W. haue sought for peace all the
day long, and have sought for peace
with the army now on your borders,
and have warned them that We all
most firmly believe that they are sent
here solely with a view to destroy this
though they may be ignorant
Of the fact. And thoughwe may be-
|ieve they are sent by the Government
Of the United States, yet as Gouernor
Of this Territory have no business to
know any such a thing until l am mott
fed by proper authority at Washing
ton. l have q right to treat them as a
mob just as though they had been
raised and differed in Missouri, and
sent bere expressly to destroy this peo-
pie. We have been very merciful and
very lenient to them. As l informed
hem in my unofficial letter, had they
been those mobocrats who mobbed us
Missouri, they never would have
seen the South Pass. We had plenty
If boys on hand, and the mode Of war
are they would have met with they
are not acquainted with.
would Just as soon tell them as to
,eli you OF my mode OF warfare. AS
he Lord God lives We will waste our
enemies by millions, if they send them
here to destroy us, and not a man Of
to be hurt. That is the method |
intend to pursue. DO you want to
know what is going to be done with
the enemies 10Y on our borders? If
they come here l will tell you what
will be done. as soan as they start to
come into our settlements let sleep de-
part from their eyes and slumber from
heir eyelids, until they sleep IN death
or they have been warned and FORE
warned that We would not tamely SUBJ
nit to being destroyed. Men shall be
secreted here and there and shall
waste away our enemies in the name
Of Isracrs God.
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