170 years ago today - Jul 5, 1852

[Brigham Young]
I am for the Constitution, but I am not for the little, nasty, pusillanimous snotty (and were it not that there are ladies here I would say shitten shirt-tailed puppies) that will violate it, and trample the rights of loyal republicans under their feet. I expect this will find its way into the '"New York Tribune,'" and all the papers of the U.S. proclaiming against the '"vulgar- -- Salt Lake City

[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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