6th Sunday I attended meeting at the
spoke then President Presented
the formor President of the Twelve Apostles to the congregation to
look upon & behold the reck & relic of a man who once was an
Apostle & a president of Apostles but had apostitized & staid in
the world untill he had become old, acriped [crippled], palsied, miserable
unhappy & worthless so much so that his the world & the devil
had all cast him off as of no use to any body he had now come
to the Saints for mercy & help President Young made a few remarks
concerning him then Thomas B. Marsh then arose & addressed the
people for a short time warned the people not to Apostitize & look to
him as an example of misery & one who had suffered the in consequence of Denying the faith he wished to be forgiven
by the[m] President Young put the vote to the Assemble if they would
receive him into full fellowship not withstanding all his heino-
us sins all voted to a man to recieve him, then President Young
Addressed the people & the meeting closed.
PM W. Woodruff spoke
to the people & bore testimony to what had had been said by the
presidency, was followed by President .
I attended the prayer Meeting in Presidents upper room
we herd letters read from &
& . President Young said Brother I presume
we shall not have any one in next winter to present
our memorials & interest (J. M. B. No I think not) I think it
will make some of the People squirm when they hear that I am
taking the property which the Government has sent into this
some of our Brethren going down to the states met
about 60 of the they were vary Friendly to them
the Indians stole 800 fat cattle & the rest was driven back
to the states so the has no cattle with them ownly for
their present use. Some said that they believed that those
Indians who stole the cattle were half mormon & began to
dam them Brother remarked we are all mormons here
in this company & I dont wish to hear my friends abused
President Young said what will the people think in when
they come to hear that Brigham Young is at the Head of
the vigilance committies in & the Cansas [Kansas] Troubles
& that the Government of the United States could not remove
him untill the Lord see fit to let them. The world accuse me
of controlling the affiairs of Calafornia & &c the people
do believe that we have a Band called the but how
could they exist so long without sheding Blood for we cannot
find that they have killed any body But I do not know of any
such men. I think that has got in a Bad
fix he has got the yoke on his neck & has to carry it alone
with no ox to carry the other End but is pounding his own shins
& will soon pound the shins of others for the moment He gave
consent to send an to destroy this people he placed himself
as the shedder of innocent Blood & the Judgments of God will
follow him. when war does break out between the north & south
it will be the most bloody. said that the ownly thing for
the President of the United States to get out of his trouble ownly to
get a Bill through to admit any territory as soon
as they had population Enough to organize a state government
& to be received at once into the Government or Union with
equal privileges with the other states. President then said let
me suggest a matter Brother is presiding at now do we not want a station about half way from
here say near should we not send men say 20 to
make a station there it was thought best to do so. He said that
the north is the place for us & not the south no one but the
Saints would want the cold North country. This is the
of
this continent & I think we had better keep near the lock
& kepp the
in our own hand. If we send a company we
want to send them this fall so that we can put in grain
there this season
6th President Young came into the a short time spent the fore noon with us helping about his history
I spent most of the day oin the office
