Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-24
Mormon Harangues.

EXTRACTS FROM BRIGHAM YoUNG's SPEECHES.
In the Deseret News of December 80 "a
sermon by Brigham, delivered in October,
Is for the first time reported. Brigham
says:
Il have never found any fault with the
Lord for not bringing victory sooner, for !
know that if our enemies intend to try to
come here by way of Emigration Kanyon
we will be ready to meet them, amp if they
intend to come round by the Malad we will
be ready to meet them, and If they under
take to come by Fort Hall we shall also be
ready to meet them. .fthey thaught that
We were or would be asleep, they might
undertake to come here.
The time has arrived when we have eth
er to be trodden under foot by our enemies
and die, or TO defend ourselves and our
rights and which will it be? Every man
and woman feel their hearts fail them when
they think OF submitting to the oppression
and awful denominations practiced by our
enemies, and sought by them to be intro
duced into our society, and we will submit
TO such wicked and unlawful treatment,
whether it comes from the United States or
united hell, for the terms are SYNONYMOUS,
rs the Government is now conducted.
tell you, and tell our ene mics, that we are
here, and we intend to stay here. [The
congregation responded, "Amen."l They
have job on hand if they persist in their
eHorts to deprive American citizens of their
rights. told Capt Van Vliet that did
not care how many troops they sent
why" said he. the United States, with
an overilowing treasury, can send out ten.
twenty, or fifty thousand troops" repli-
cd l1 unt
The Captain then asked whether | had
counted the cost, and | said yes, for this
people have, but cannot estimate it for
the nited States, fer, if they actually per-
sst IN their tyrannical course, before they
get through they will want to let the Job to
sub,contraetors. They do not know the
Captain ofthe armies OF Israel and, although
they prote.s to believe in him, they do not
realize that He is about to hold il contro-
versy with them for their iniquity
Ii we will stand up as men and women
OF God. the yoke shall never be placed up
on oar necks again, dndM he'll ca,m4 orr
Mrow us, eycn ,ciM tie Unit,d States 10 helo
item. 1t is notpleasant to the natural feel
ings to be obliged to talk in this manner
about fellowcitizens with whom We have
been reared but when they act like the
devil 1t Is impossible for us TO bow to Il. cir
unjust and Illegal mandates, without becom.
ing as corrupt AS they are 1t is an honor
to resist the wicked, and my name will be
had in honor, and so will Joseph Smiths.
and SO will your names, for not bowling to
their inquitous doings.
AEBER KiMDALL ,rEocLAIMs MORMON rRsrpou
In sermon by Aebcr, delivered on the
10th of December. he says:
will tell you the day of our separation
has come, and we are free and indenen.
dent people, isolated thousand miles from
the christian nation; and thanks be to our
GOD forever, and we are the people Of God,
and tins Is the kingnom of the King Eman-
uel, IN these mountains, and He will gather
all nations uuto US, they that will be gath.
cred; andethose that will not, He VIII
compel them"
GETS DESPERATE
! would prefer to go into the mountains.
and see my family 60 there and live ON
roots. wearing sheepskins and goa skins.
and dwelling in tents and caves, as the an.
cient apostles did, rather than to see the
troops OF the United States come into this
valley and see the sufFerings of this people.
as We have hitherto. The congregation
responded, Amen. have seen myself
with many OF this people, broken u. and
driven five times, and robbed and plumber.
ed, and they have suffered in such a man
ner as never want to see them suffer again
DISCUSSES TIE IMPROPERLY OF LONG pREssrs
In our city there are great many poor
women; am aware of that, and they will
be tteraaly roor, for they waste every.
thing they can get hold of, and thew are
nasty and filthy, for see them dragging
their dresses behind them, and t6.nc6
they are SO poor that they cannot get up in
the morning and wash their faces and hands
before breakfast, yet they have eighteen or
twenty inches of their dresses dragging in
the mud. Now you look, when YOU 90 ont
of this meeting, and see if you do not see
several of them. am now talking abont
home manufacturers but if that Is home
manufacturing, do not want that part. !
am going to get rid OF gthat-I cannot be- |
lieve in it. was speaking to a lady the |
other day about dresses, and, said She
that's the fashion Queen Victoria estab. |
lished."
Says ], what the hell has Queen Victo.
ria to do over here?" She had better get
religion before she comes to set an EXAMPLE |
for our ladies, dragging their dresses in the
mud. Vel, they said that she established
it because she had such big squatty foot
You make q great deal worse squat than
she does, dragging your clothes throuoh
the mud. Brother Lorenzo spoke of IL and
! told him it belonged to the Bishop; it Vas