13^th Sunday I arose in the morning saddled my horse rode
into my field 4 miles & back I then went to the House of
Sister Foss & laid hands upon her with Brother Smoot as she
was sick we then went to Meeting in the Tabernacle &
John Taylor Preached a splendid discourse upon the first
Principles of the gospel He was then followed by President
Brigham Young who said that he had had the persecu-
tions of the Saints before him all the morning that He
was righteously angry He was so angry he could
not preach. But He did preach in the power of God
& told the people his Feelings. Capt Van Vleit sat by
& when President Young spoke of the wickedness & cor-
ruption of the government it made him feel. at
the close of the meeting we met with the missionaries
who were appointed to lecture upon the subject of Home
Manufacturing. we then went into council with the
presidency to select a company of missionaries to go
& make a settlement on Black foot fork 63 volunteered
& 42 of them were chosen at the close of this council I
went direct to the Meeting at the Tabernacle Charles R Daina
spoke first He had Just returned from England when
he went on his mission the Twelve Blessed him I was
mouth He said evry word which I proclaimed upon his
head was fulfilled to the vary letter. He was followed by
G. A. Smith who spoke of his southern tour, &c He
was followed by President Young who gave Uncle Sam
considerable Hell fire for their wickedness. At the
close of the meeting I met with the Missionaries again
President Young made a few remarks to them upon their
organization. we then went into our Prayer Circle & Presi-
dent Young feasted the Breathrens upon Peaches & grapes
as we had so many meetings we had had no time for eating
through the day at the close of the prayer Capt Van Vleit
met us at the close of the stairs & said he had an express
from the States & wished to meet with Gov Young
I then went to the Historians office & prepaired
3 letters to I. F. Carter to O. Pratt & T. B. H
Stenhouse I then went to Capt Hoopers & met
with Capt Van Vleit a short time after President
Brigham Young H C Kimball D. H. Wells A. Carrington
O Hyde J Taylor & a number of others. Capt Van Vleit
was preparing to leave at 3 oclok in the morning President
Young was now to have his last interview with him
& he wished to talk to him in a plain manner He said

He wished Capt Van Vliet to report at Washington Just
as things were here He said I have seen the suffering
of this people through the persecutions of the people of
the United States for the last 25 years and I will not
bear it any longer. we have always treated the United
States officers well but they have constantly lied abo-
ut us & tried to destroy us all the time. we would still
have received their govornors & officers if they had
sent them here without an Army but inasmuch as
they are now disposed to send an Armey here to
hold us still while others run their read hot Iron
into us & then kill us we will now say that we will
not have neither their soldiers Armies or officers
any more here at all, and you may tel them so we will
Just fight for our liberty & rights from this day forth whenever
I think of letting their troops come in here and their
officers I can see nothing but death & darkness before me and
before this people but when I say they shall not come here
light bursts upon me and I can see life before me & this
people and this is the way all of this people feel. the intention
of the Government is to destroy us & this we are determin
they shall not do. If the government of the United
States persists in sending Armies to destroy us in the name
of the Lord we shall conquer them. if the Government
calls for volunteers in Calafornia & the people turn out to come
to destroy us they will find their own buildings in flames before
they get far from home & so throughout the United States
again if they commence the war I shall not hold the Indians
still by the [w]rist any longer for white men to shoot at them but
I shall let them go ahead & do as they please and I shall
carry the war into their own land and they will want to let
out the Job before they get half through and even should an
Armey of 50000 men get into this valley when they got
here they would find nothing but a Barren waste we
should burn evry thing that was wood & evry acre of
grass they would burn and you may tell them that they
must bring with them their forage for their animals
for they will not find any thing to eat in this Territory
when they come, again you may tell them they must stop
all emigration across this continent for they cannot travel
in safety the Indians will kill all that attempt it. You may
tell Judge Douglass that when He comes here again to enter
into a treaty of peace we shall dictate those terms of peace
& not him as He did before.

Capt Van Vleit said that
if our Government pushed forward this thing & made war
upon us He should withdraw from the Army for he would
not have a hand in sheding the Blood of American citizens
After closing HeHis remarks President Young said God had
set up his kingdom upon the Earth & it was here & the Lord
would sustain that kingdom & he would destroy all that
fought against it And if the Armies of the United [States] came
against us the Lord would permit them to be destroyed at the
close of the remarks the President said to Capt Van Vleit as citizens
we are friends & shook hands in a Friendly manner and

sept 13 1857

[wished] each other well we all wished the captain well. I went home
& put up a Box of peaches of 32 dozen for Hon J. M. B.
and Capt Van Vleit I then went to the Historians office
from there to President Youngs office & conversed with presidents
Young Wells & Carrington untill after 12 oclok at night
I then went home & retired to rest J. M. Bernhisel was
Blessed & set apart for Washington I wrote his Blessing