Further from Utah.
Fury of the Saints against the United States
Blasphemies from Brigham Young.
Files of the Deseret News to October 7th, had been received at San Francisco.
A SPEECH FROM BRIGHAM.—In a speech delivered by Brigham Young, on the 13th of September, he said:
"I do not often get angry, but when I do I am righteously angry, and the bosom of the Almighty burns with anger toward those scoundrels and they shall be consumed, in the name of Israel's God. We have borne enough of their oppression and hellish abuse, and we will not bear any more of it, for there is no just law requiring further for-bearance on our part. And I am not going to have troops here to protect the priests, and a hellish rabble in efforts to drive us from the land we possess, for the Lord does not want us to be driven, and has said, "If you will assert your rights, and keep my commandments, you shall never be brought into bondage by your enemies.
"Admit of corrupt administrators sending troops here and what would be the result? All hell would follow after. I naturally dis-like to have any trouble, and would not were I not obliged to; but we are obliged to de-fend ourselves against the prosecution of our oppressors, or have our constitutional rights rent from us and ourselves destroyed. We must either puffer that, or stand up and maintain the kingdom of God on Earth.
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"If the troops are now this side of Lara-mie, remember that the Sweetwater is this side of that place. They must have some place to Winter, for they cannot come through this season. We could go out and use them up, and it would not require fifty men to do it. But probably we shall not have occasion to take that course, for we do not want to kill men. They may Winter in peace at some place east of us," but when Spring comes they must go back to the States, or at any rate they must leave the mountains.
"We have no desire to kill men, but we wish to keep the devils from killing us. If you hear that they are near the upper crossing of the Platte, they will probably stay there till they can collect fifty thousand troops. We will say that nine and three equal seventeen, and if that is so, how long will it take to get these troops here? Let an arithmetician figure how long it will be be-fore nine and three will make seventeen, for that will be just as soon as our enemies will get fifty thousand troops here.
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"Our enemies had better count the cost, for if they continue the job they will want to let it out to sub-contractors before they get half through with it. If they persist in sending troops here, I want the people in the West and East to understand that it will not be safe for them to cross the plains.
"It has cost the government hundreds of thousands of dollars more for the Indians in the other Territories that it has in this, and I have saved the Government hundreds of thousands of dollars by keeping the Indians peaceable in Utah. Hundreds of miles have the Indians travelled to see me to know whether they might use up the emigrants, they have killed many of us, and they damn you and damn us, and shall we stand it? I have told them to hold on, to stop shedding blood, and to live in peace. But I have been told that the first company of packers that went through here this season, on their way from California to the States, shot at every Indian they saw between Carson Val-ley and Box Elder, and what has been the result? Probably scores of persons have been killed, animals have been taken from nearly all the emigrants that have passed on the road, and the Indians in that region have now more stock than they know how to take care of, and they come in to the settlements with their pockets full of gold. The whites first commenced on the Indians, and now if they do not quit such conduct they must stop traveling through this country, for it is more than I can do to keep the Indians still under such outrageous conduct.
