BRIGHAM YOUNG DEFIES THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 30, 27 August 1869, Page 3

BRIGHAM YOUNG DEFIES THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.

According to- the ' Utah Eeporter' Brighain Toung expressed himself very frankly as well as forcibly towards the United States Government, in his last sermon before a, Mormon Conference recently held in Salt Lake City. He first paid his respects to former Administrations:—

" Whom did they send here for officers,? The vilest scalawags that could he raked'out of hell. . The d—dest set of rascals they could pick up, who did us all the harm they could. But we have grown in spite .of them : we ask no odds of them, and if those d—d low lived fellows that are now crowding in give us any trouble we will rise up and put every one of them right out of the Territory! We will make them leave ; we won't have such a d—d set among us! There was old Drake, the d—dest old rascal in the country, that said he 'loved to d —n the Mormons ; he'd get up at midnight and walk ten miles over thistles to d—n them, and he'd d—n any man that wouldn't d—-n them ; and I say God d—n him and God will d—n him and all such scallawags as they send out here. And these are the representatives of Congress. . And of the President. Who goes into the White House in these days ? A ■ gambler and a drunkard. And the Vice-President is the same.. And no man can get either office unless he is a gambler and a drunkard,, or a whoremonger or a thief. And who goes to Congress ? You may hunt clear through the Senate and the House, and if you.. can find any men who are not liars, thieves, whoremongers, adulterers, gamblers, and drunkards, I tell you they are mighty few, for no other kind of men can get in there. . . . .

" They sent an army here to destroy the Saints. And when that army got to Eort Bridger I told them to 'stand off. I sent word to the Colonel: ' That land where you are is mine ; I bought it and paid my money for it; but you can stay there. But if you attempt to encroach any further upon us we'll kill you all!' The Colonel said if I caused one drop of blood to be shed there would be millions shed in return. I told him to keep off, to go where he.would, but not to come on us.. And. they did keep off; and'they didn't hurt anybody; no, nor they never will be able to hurt anybody," as long as the Saints 'are united. They came and they went as so many others have come and went, and now if these G-entiles give us any more trouble we'll drive them every one right out of the country. We won't be bothered with them. The d—d scallawags can't hurt us as long as we are united. We defy them all. Now,lsayfor all the Saints to stick together and be united, and all the d—d scallawags in the country can't hurt us. We defy them all! And we ask no odds of the Grovernment."

That every word was spoken as here published, says the ' Reporter,' we have the most positive proof. If such things are spoken -in public what must be their utterances in secret council ? If such are their open expressions, what must their thoughts and feelings be ?