Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
On the Brother Peter ^W^ Conover and Oliver Smith arrived and
called upon President Young with news from our Carson Valley company
The Carson Valley Saints and those from California and Oregon were on their
way to this City. They had 160 fighting men with 2700 lbs of
amunition belonging to the Church with a great deal of private property
and a large amount of arms. All the Saints were coming from Carson
Valley. They left only 2 boxes of caps and 1 lb of powder in all Carson
Valley. The people sold all their arms and amunition to the brethren
for their places
President Young received a letter from General Grant. The U.S.
army were still on Hams Fork and had not decided which route they would
take. Our brethren had got the chief waggon master in custody
The Presidency and Twelve were in conversation all the
forenoon at his office on the subject of the war. President Young said
that the United States Government were loosing their national greatness,
and wisdom was departing from them. We need not ^have^ as much need
to fear ^of^ them as we should ^of^ an army of grashoppers. If they take
away our charter from us and divide our Territory it will be unconstitutional
as everything is which they do against us. I told brother Bernhisel
that if they took away our Charter to come immediately home as soon
as he could and we would organize our State Government and
fall back upon our original boundaries. Our East boundary should
be as far as Laramie and our West boundary the summit of the
Siere Nevada and run to the Pacific Ocean and we would
defend it. The United States may do as they please. We will
