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Dec 3, 1857

Journal Entry

December 03, 1857 ~ Thursday

3rd This is Fast day I attended meeting at the 14th ward
school house
a part of the day & spoak to the people a short
time I told them the Lord had fulfilled the words of President
Brigham Young by stoping our enemies & not giving them
power to come in without our sheding their Blood or they sheding
ours the Lord had fought our Battles &c. I spent the
evening in the office

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
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against us up to this day & through this whole sceneery of alarm of war & the approach of the Enemy President Young has been as calm & scerene as a Mays summers morning and all the time has said victory would be hours & that Blood would not be shed & he has diffused ^this same spirit^ throughout the whole Church & kingdom of God esstablished in these mounta- ins and all the armies of Zion have gone out to war as calm & composed as though they were going into the field to their daily labour & now the Armies are returning out of the mountains of snow to their homes with the same spirit of composure & quietude as they went out thanking God that the words of the prophets have been fullfilled in their behalf & as they pass thby the Habitation of President Young they give him a quiet salute & pass on in silence to their homes Hewhile He gazes upon the passing Army of Zion with a Heart filled to overflowing with thanksgiving & praise to the God of Israel who had fulfilled his words which he had been inspired by the Holy Ghost to utter unto his brethren & was also thankful that He was surrounded with Brethren who were servants of God & were united to gether in faith & love to carry out his instruction & thereby claim the protection & Blessings of Almighty God upon them, as He walks through the city under the sable shades of night he beholds & feels the diferent between the Army of Zion & the camp of the wicked. Hundreds of men who have just returned from the Armey of Israel in the mountains arive in the city in the city in the night, camp by the road side, have been two months in the mountains of cold & snow not a murmer is heard to escape their lips, or the sound of Blasphemy, or oath, or filthy language, or contention one with an other. No one reeling under strong drink but kindness quietiude & Joy filles evry heart & the spirit of God fills evry bosom. This contrast is vary great when compared with the Gentile armies & cities
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
On the the California mail arrived and we found from the papers that the massacre of the emigrants by the Indians was laid to the charge of the Mormons and the people of Loss Angelos had held public meetings and called upon the passed resolutions to call upon the President of the United States to exert his power to bring the murderers to justice. All the Saints in Calaifornia were returning home and Elder George Q Cannon had got out half a sheet of the "Standard" and there was quite an excitement concerning the Mormon question. Near Escape of One of our Scouting Parties. General Wells related that brother Maxwell had command of a small scouting company. They took a horse from the enemy and was fired at by them but no one was hurt. They went back to their encampment. Brother Maxwell became strongly impressed that there was danger in their way and that they ought to leave their camp. He told his brethren this but some of them did not think so and all went to bed. But these feelings increased upon brother Maxwell and he arose from his bed and told his brethren he was going to leave that place immediately and they all gathered up their horses and went several miles back and camped for the night and soon the encampment which they had just left was surrounded by a hundred men and had it not have been for this warning they probably would have been all taken prisoners The Legislature. Governor Youngs Message.

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Dec 3, 1857