Year: 1863

n cores pOnuenJ writes TO the oacra
e mento Union, as follows


4 The sermon is here enclosed for wha
S use you may think proper. There are bu
! one or two points in it that think of par


;lcular Importance at the present time


Brigham's ayowal of loyalty and his frs


and only allusion to the 'Mountain Mead
ow Massacre" He claims on the first, tha


the people of which he is recognized lead
er, have proven their lsyalty over and owe
again, to the Nation. Constitution and Gov


eminent; but had many complaints to max
; against the unfair, unjust proceedings o
: different Administrations. in which the,
, were victimized His own words deserv
quotation:


''Now, then, what should we say con


cerning this people l will answer. There


never has been time or circumstance since


this Territory was organized, but what tht


civil law has reigned triumphantly in the


hearts and acts of this people. The pres


sure now is that this people, called Latter


Day Saints, are secessionists in their feel


ings and alien to the Constitution and in.


stitutions of our country. This is entirely


false. There is not another people on the


face of the earth that could have borne


what we have, and still remained as loyal


to our brethren as we have been and are


They might be displeased with some of the


acts of the administrators of the law, but


not with the constitutional laws and insti-


tutions of the Government. Lis. ....- Il


This is the outside pressure. 1t forced


us from Ohio to Missouri, from Missouri to


Illinois, and from Illinois into the wilder
ness. We are accused of disloyalty, alien
alton, and apostacy from the Constitution
of our country. We are accused of being
secessionists. ] am, SO help me God, and
ever expect to be a secessionist from their
wickedness, unrighteousness, dishonesty
and unhallowed principles in a religious
point of view; but am l, or this people Sc
cessionists with regard to the glorious Con-
stitution of our country? No


81 am neither an abolitionist nor pro-
slavery man. If l could have been 1nhu-
enced by private injury to choose one side
In preference to the other, should certain
ly be against the pro-slavery side of the
question for it was pro-slavery men that
pointed the bayonet a me and my friends
IN Missouri, and said, Damn you, we will
Kill you have not much love for them
only IN the gospel. would cause them
to repent, il could, and make them good
men and a good community. l have no
fellowship for their avarice, blindness and
ungodly actions.


Nov, as we are accused Of secession,
my counsel to this congregation is to Sc
cede, what from? From the Constitution
of the United States? No From the in
stitutions of our country? No Well,
then, what from? From sin and the prac-
tice thereof


That is my counsel to this congregation
and the whole void.


-Cradlebaugh, l presume-who wanted
the whole army under General Johnston to
accompany him while he tried the people
Of Iron county, Brigham says:


81 told Governor CummiEg that if he
would take an unprejudiced Judge into the
district where that horrid affair occurred,
would pledge myself that every man il
the regions round about should be forth
coming when called for to be condemned
or acquitted, as an impartial, unprejudiced
Judge and jury should decide and l
pledged him that the Court should be pro-
tected from any violence or hindrance in
the prosecution of the laws and if any
were guilty of the blood of those who suf-
fered in the Mountain Meadow massacre,
let them suffer the penalty of the law; but
to this day they have not touched the mat
ter, for fear the Mormons would be acquit-
ted from the charge of having any hand in
it, and our enemies would thus be deprived
of favorite tone to talk about when urg-
irg hostility against us. "The Mountain
Meadow meassacre-only think of the
Mountain Meadow massacre = is their cry
from one end of the land to the other"


Our correspondent does not give the
most racy and illiberal portions of Brig
hams speech.


The following is worthy of the veriest
Copperhead in the land The rank, rab-
i'd abolitionists, whom | call black hearted
Republicans, have set the whole national
fabric on fire. Do you know this, Demo
Gratis They have kindled the fire that is
raging now from the North to the South,
and from the South to the North. | am
no abolitionist, neither am / a pro-slavery
man; hate some of their principles, and
especially some of their conduct, as / do the
gates of hell. The Southerners make the
negroes, and the Northerners worship
them this is all the difference between
Shareholders and abolitionists. | would
like the President of the United States and
all the world to hear this" Again, speak
ing of the Gentiles, Brigham says: "Find !
fault with me because I have wives They
would corrupt every wife l have, if they
had the power; and then they cry to the
Government, you had better do something |
With the Mormons; they are deceitful and |
disloyal' l am disloyal to their sins and
flthiness. Cleanse your hearts and the
whole person, and make yourselves as pure
as the angels, and then l will fellowship
you


These are items of some interest at the
present time, and irasmuch as they are Civ
en- voluntarily and freely, they will have
proper weight with every person interested
in the continuance of amicabe relations be-
tween the people of Utah and the General
Government.


The PACIFIC RA1LRoAD.-The Sacra-
mento Union after speaking at length of
the great benefits to be derived from the
of this important national thor
oughfare, thus speaks Of the progress of
the work:


The Directors of the Company are push
ing steadily onward. They have purchased
the iron to lay fifty miles of the road, and
will have the first eighteen, which are now
under contract, completed and the locomo-
tives and cars running on it in September
next. The remaining thirty-tw Of the first
fifty miles are nearly ready TO be mt under