News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
23. I saw Ow-wan-nop the Pied captain of the country
President Brigham Young steped into the House of G. A. Smith &
gave a short sermon, but vary powerful. He rebuked the
speculators among us vary sharply those who are trading
with the Armey & Gentiles & still profess to be saints. some
remarks I herd at the close, as I was not in at the Begining
^
^ He said I marvel at the patience I have had with such men
Here is B. F. Stewart & his Brother & hundreds of others I could
name Bishop Warren is another. They are a stink in my norstrials
they will trade with our Enemies and sustain them and they
would let in all Hell upon us for a few dimes they would
like to open a gold mine, Esstablish whiskey & Hore shops or
do any thing for Money & be hail fellows well met with these
Damned curses, they would cut my throat if they had
the power. But I will live to see them Damned & in Hell
and these Stewarts & Hanks & your Bishop are among us
as Saints, and we take them by the hand and call them
Brother, But I have no more fellowship for them than I have
for the Devils in hell, and I curse them in the name of
Jesus Christ, and the curse of God shall rest upon them
from this hour, and they will see the day they will be glad to
lick up the dust of the feet of the meanest Saint in the celesti-
al Kingdom of God. Such men are not worth Hall room
and the curse of Almighty God shall rest upon them.
At the close of his remarks He got into his carriage &
drove to Cedar 18 miles arived about 12 oclock. We held
a meeting President Young spoke upon the same subject that
He did in the morning. He spoke with power, he spoke of the
Evils which exist in not following his council in our dealing with
the armey and gentiles if he had had his way the army would have
paid well for what they got in Utah, but as it was they had evry
thing brought to there door & some that call themselves Saints almost
worship them for a few dimes. He was followed by D. H. Wells &
W. Woodruff & John Taylor who spoke in great plainness. Another
Meeting was held in the Evening when E D Woolley W. Woodruff & George
Godard preached. I stoped with Brother Steel.
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