Br. Brigham arose and spoke the plainest that I ever heard him ... I now say to all you [lawyers] that stir up strife and contention thieving and wickedness and don't repent, the curse of the Almighty shall rest upon you. I curse you in the name of Jesus Christ. Your children shall die, your substance shall wither and perish! ... Here is Judge Snow, to my right hand, a stink to this community, he goes around picking old sores, stirring up lawsuits to get business and for a mess of sugar and tea he can be bribed, he will wallow in his filth all the week and on Sunday come and stick himself in the stand by the side of me! I consider it a disgrace to me, to sit by him. I suppose he will want to speak now, but if he gets into this pulpit I will kick him out, It shan't be disgraced with him.
We have got the names of the loafers that attend court and we are going to send them on a mission and hope they won't be back in less than 5 years. We will send some good men with them, they may preach the gospel, or apostatize and go to hell. About a 150 names were called. -- SLC Tabernacle [Note: Zerubabel Snow asked the Quorum of Twelve for forgiveness. Heber C. Kimball warns, "When a man is appointed to take a mission, unless he has a just and honorable reason for not going, if he does not go he will be severed from the Church"]
[Source: John Pulsipher Journal, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
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