Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-01-16
Defiant Speeches OF Brigham Young.


In the Tabernacle, on the 4th of October,
Brigham Young made the following remarks:
have told you before, and tell you now,
that the result will be that Mormonlsh will
be higher and greater 10 power than ever 1t
was before. Our enemies will sink while we
increase in power aud strength, and enjoy an
influence that we never enjoyed before, and
the Lord will have His own way IN bringing
about these thugs. | know that all VIII be
made right; and 40 aliwise, oGerrullng Prov
ideuce will bring US off victorious. lie has
led US to victory and peace, and has gwen Us
power and influence that we can sustain our
selves against all that can come to annoy, de-
stroy. dcsolate and drive the Saints OF God.
God will fight our battles, and He will do 1t
as he plcases.
will say few words before the congrega-
ton is dismissed
As but few can be in our Offices to learn
the news that is brought in, | will say that
on the %, Friday last, message arrived
with the intelligence that the soldiers were
going up Hams Fork. Previous to that had
sent by Lieuteuant-Gen. Wells q copy Of the
proclamation, procaimiug martial law and
ordering the troops not u come here. lhey
treated it as supposed they would. They
say they are sent by the President, are
subject to superior officers, and intend to
abide their instructions, and expect they
will unit! some other power checks their pro-
gresS.
| do not know that anybody's heart burns,
except it is to get little nearer our enemies,
and for the troops to undertake to come IN
here.
GA the Sth of October, Brigham Young
delivered another speech in the tabernacle IN
relation to the advance Cf the Uunited States
troops into the Territory lie said:
Another year. | am going to prepare for
the werst, and | want you to prepare to cach0
our grain and lay waste this Territory, Tor l
am determined, if driven to that extremity,
that cur enemies shall find nothing but heaps
of ashes and ruins. We will be so prepared
that in few days all can be consumed. l
shall request the Bishops to see that the pee
pie in their Wards are provided with two or
three years provisions.
There is enough already "a Used in many
places this season to supply the people from
two 20 three years, and wish them to take
care Of it, though | expect that IN all prOba-
biity we will raise great many crops be-
fore our enemies again come here to disturb
US. and expect that we are bic TO defend our
selves. and that our enemies will not be able
TO come within q hundred miles Ct US. |
know that ten men, such as | could name
aud select, could stop them before they got to
Laramie. And if we had seen tit 10 have
sent such men this season, they alone could
very easily have 80 stopped our enemies that
they never would have got through the Black
Hills. count FIVE such men equal to TWEEN.
ty-fiye thousand, and believe that two OF them
could nut ten thousand to light. | believe
we are now whore that could be done. l
will take five or ten such as | can name,
and il two can put ten thousand to flight, /
am sure that ten are perfectly able to do 1t.
Our enemies in the last treaty they made
with us, should have stipulated that we should
have gone only a short distance, so that we
would not be out Of their reach. They bad
better have made that stipulation, but they
did not have wisdom, or they would have
stopped US from going so far away. They
drove us away from their society and allowed
ms t. travel so far over the sage plains, that
il is impossible tor an army 10 bring prov
sions enough to last them LerH.
| have been told that the first artillery
company, upon its arrival at Laramie, load
ed up all the grain they could haul to feed
their mule teams, and when they reached
the Devils Gate they sent forward after their
grain from their freight trains, and they had
not enough II last them to llaml's Fork. 1t
is impossible for them to load the teams with
sufficient forage TO last them to Green
River; and the more men they send the more
there are to eat up what the mule and OK
trains haul, and the consequence Is that the
more men they send the worse it is all the
time.
If they undertake to send fifty thou sand
men to Utah, | will venture to say that they
cannot raise So large Il company IN the Ual
ted States. but what would cut each others
threats before they travelled IA thousand miles
across the plains, to say nothing of ether
persons molesting them. They would be
cursng, damuing and bowling all the way
| know that the comparatively few scattered
here and there over the country and in the
mountIins, can spoil their march before they
could get here.
C'ELLlNG OFF-We are now selling Oft
= below the manufacturers prizes, very
large stock OF LADIES DRESS FtRN, con
sisting ol Capes, Tippets, Iaimas, Cuffs, and
Nufis. Of Sable Mink, Martin Fitch, and other
desirable FURS.
For Gentlemen, we have Seal Otter. and
Mink Mufris. and very large assortment Of
FUR GLOVES.
lV- The prices on our stock OF DRY GOODS
are also very mach reduced.