[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young said That the United States Government was loosing their National greatness & wisdom is departed from them and we need not have as much fear of them as we would of an Armey of Grasshoppers. If they take away our Charter from us & divide up our Territory it will be unconstitutional as every thing is they do against us. I told Brother Bernhisel that if they took away our Charters to Come immediately home as soon as He Could & we would Organize our State Government & fall back upon our Original Boundaries. Our East Boundary should be at Laramie the west the summit of the Sierra Nevada & run to the pacific Ocean &c & we would defend it. John Taylor who sat in the Judgment seat Said that was our legal Lawful & Legitimate right. President Young said I want San Bernardino & Carson valley to remain & not be disturbed for I want the people there to raise stock to supply us from time to time as we need. The U.S. may do as they please. We will do as the Lord wants us. One young officer of the Army said that Old Jesus Christ Could not keep him out of salt Lake City But they will find out who rules on Earth & in heaven. Another Officer said the United States would wipe us out another year should they send an Army of 20,000 men it would take more than 20 miles for their army & train to move at all and the more there is off them the worse off they will be. -- Salt Lake City [Wilford WoodruffÂ's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 5:114-115]
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
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