Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
was one of the most important days that
the Church and Kingdom of God had seen in this dispensation. The
people met at the Tabernacle. Several of the returned missionaries spoke
in the morning and they were followed by President Brigham Young
Synopsis of An Address
By President Brigham Young
Delivered August th 16th
When he arose he said he desired to speak as the Lord himself would were
he present. He then began clothed with the Spirit and power of
God and the revelations of Jesus Christ. He recounted our persecutions
and oppressions for the last 25 years and then took up the unjust
course of the United States against us at the present time. Then he
told us and all the world what the will of God was and what his
intentions were. He would no longer submit to their ungoldly persecutions
If General Harney came here with an army to destroy this people we
would destroy him and his army. They should not come into this
Territory nor into our cities to destroy this people. The United
States had turned mob and were breaking the Constitution of the
United States and we would now have to go forth and defend
it and also the Kingdom of God and should they undertake to
send an army of 50,000 or 100,000 next year we will lay waste
this whole Territory and flee into the mountains.
I will lay all my dwellings in ashes all my
mills in ashes. I will cut down every green ^tree^ and shrub in the Valleys
