Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
President Young said I have sent
General Harney word that I wish for peace and do not wish to fight
anybody but he must not come here with his armies. If he does
I shall stop him.
The President said to Brother Mathews when you
get to California you cannot strengthen us; you must be upon
the watchtower. The nation is determined to make us free
They are determined to drive us to defend ourselves and become
indipendant. The nation is breaking to pieces in spirit. There
is no union among them and before the United States get through
trying to destroy us they will want to let out the job. I told
the people years ago that if they would let us alone we would
convert and revolutionize the world; and if they did not let us alone
but undertook to break us up we would spread abroad the faster
and do the work so much the sooner; and we will do it. If this
nation now makes war upon us we will be free and build up
the kingdom of God the sooner. The people have tried all the
time to destroy us but they have failed all the time
When the Government called for 500 of
our men they had no idea that we should comply with their
request. This plan was laid to destroy the Saints and
