25 I was quite poorly this morning I rode with the company
to , we had a meeting I attended it, it was A vary inter-
esting meeting President spoke with great Plainness and
Power He called upon thHis councillors & to wake up &
get rid of there selfishness & get the & Edify the
people He called upon the whole people to covenant with upli-
fted hands to Heaven to obey his council which we all did. He
told the people to go to & build graneries & continue to lay up grain
untill they had bread to last them seven years & not sell their
grain to any body untill they had done this & stop sending their
bread stuff to the gold mines & stop going to the gold mines to stay
at home & attend to there own business. Stop carrying grain to the
distilleries to be made into whiskey, stop making whiskey & stop
drinking whiskey, and if you will do this I promise you in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that you will suffer no famine
He made other interesting remarks. He said some opposed
our admission into the family of States upon the ground that we
would be uniting with a corrupt Body we would not be as
much united with them than as we are now we would then be
free from their govornor & Judges & be more Free than we
are now but we are the & I do not care
what they do about it
