Daily Iowa State Democrat

We received a six weeks' file of the Deseret News of October 7th, in which we find numerous speeches by Brigham Young, President Kimball and others. A few extracts will serve to show their spirit:

RESISTANCE
TO THE
TROOPS
This people are free; they are not in bondage to any government on God's footstool. We have transgressed no law, and we have no occasion to do so, neither do we intend to; but as for any nation's coming to destroy this people, God Almighty be my helper, they cannot come here.
[The congregation responded by a loud Amen. That is my feeling upon that point. I do not often get angry, but when I do, I am righteously angry, and the bosom of the Almighty burns with anger towards these scoundrels, and they shall be consumed, in the name of Israel's God. We have borne enough of their oppression and hellish abuse, and we will not bear any more of it, for there is no just law requiring further forbearance on our part. And I am not going to have troops here to protect the priests and a hellish rabble in efforts to drive us from the land we possess, for the Lord does not want us to be driven, and has said. 'If you will assert my rights, and keep my commandments, you shall never again be brought into bondage by your enemies

FAITH RECOMMENDED TO THE SAINTS.
If there was a perfect union of our faith, our enemies could never cross the Rocky Mountains, or if they undertook to come some other way, they never could cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains, nor the Basin Rim on our north, nor the Deserts on the south. But, says one, I want to fight."
Do all such persons know that they are not right?

THE SENDING OF TROOPS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
If you do your duty in this respect you need not be afraid of mobs, nor of forces sent out in violation of the very genius of our free institutions. holding you till mobs kill you. Mobs? Yes, for where is there the least particle of authority, either in our Constitution or laws, for sending troops here or even for appointing civil officers contrary to the voluntary consent of the governed. We came here without any help from our enemies, and we intend to stay as long as we please.

BRIGHAM DEFIES THEM,
They say that their army is legal, and I say that such a statement is as false as hell, and that they are as rotten as an old pumpkin that has been frozen seven times and melted in a harvest sun. Come on with your thousands of illegally ordered troops, and I will promise you, in the name of Israel's God, that you shall melt away as the snow before a July sun.

PERMISSION TO RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES
If it were any use I would ask whether there is a person in this congregation who wants to go to the U. S., but I know that I should not find any. But I will pledge myself that if there is a man, woman or child that wants to go back to the States, if they will pay their debts and not steal anything. they can go; and if they are poor and honest, we will help them to go.

THE MORMONS REFUSE TO LEAVE UTAH.
When I was written to in Nauvoo by the President of the United States, through another person, in replying, 'where are you going, Mr. Young ?' I replied that I did not know where we should land. We had men in England trying to negotiate for Vancouver's Island, and we sent a ship load of Saints round Cape Horn to California. Men in authority asked, 'where are you going?' We may go to California or to Vancouver's Island. When the pioneer company reached Green River. we met Samuel Brannan and a few others from California, and they wanted us to go there. I remarked. let us go to California and we cannot stay there over five years; but let us stay in the mountains and we can raise our own potatoes and eat them, and I calculate to stay here. We are still on the back-bone of the animal. where the bone and sinew are, and we intend "to stay here, and hell cannot help themselves. We are not to be proscribed as we have been. We can say: 'Come as a mob, and we can sweeten you up right smartly. They never did anything against Joseph until they had ostensibly legalized a mob, and I shall treat every army and every armed company that attempts to come here, as a mob. [The congregation responded, 'Amen."]

WRONGS UPON THE MORMONS,
There cannot be a more damnable, dastardly order issued than was issued by the Administration to this people while they were in an Indian country in 1846. Before we left Nauvoo, not less than two U. S. Senators came to receive a pledge from us that we would leave the United States; and then, while we are doing our best to leave their borders, the poor, low, degraded curses sent a requisition for five hundred of our men to fight their battles! That was President Polk, and he is now weltering in hell with Zachary Taylor, where the Administration will soon be if they do not repent.

THE FAINT-HEARTED WARNED TO LEAVE.
I have told you that if this people will leave their religion all will be well ; and I have told you that if there is any man or woman who is not willing to destroy anything of their property that would be of use to an enemy if left, I wanted them to go out of the Territory; and I again say so to-day; for when the time comes to burn and lay waste our improvements, if any man undertakes to shield his, he will be sheared down, "for Judgement will be laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet." Now the faint hearted can go in peace, but should that time come, they must not interfere.— Before I will suffer what I have in times gone by, there shall not be one building. nor one foot of lumber, nor a stick, nor a tree, nor a particle of grass or hay, that will burn, left in reach of our enemies. I am sworn, if driven to extremity, to utterly lay waste, in the name of Israel's God.

PREPARATIONS TO OPPOSE THE TROOPS.
Suppose that our enemies send 50,000 troops here, they will have to transport all that will be requisite to sustain them over one winter, for I will promise them before they come that there shall not be one particle of forage nor one mouthful of food for them should they come. They will have to bring all their provisions and forage, and though they start their teams with as heavy loads as they can draw, there is no team that can bring enough to sustain itself, to say nothing of the men. If there were no more men here than there are in the Seminole nation our enemies never could use us up, but they could use up themselves, which they will do. The Seminoles, a little tribe of a few hundred, in Florida, have cost our government, I suppose, in the neighborhood of 100,000,000, and they are no nearer being conquered than when the war commenced

THE COST OF CONQUERING UTAH.
It has been asked, "Have you counted the cost ?" Yes, for ourselves, but I cannot begin to count it for our enemies. It will cost them all that they have in this world, and will land them in hell in the world to come, while the only trouble with us is that we have two or three more men than we need for using up all who come here to deprive us of our rights.

GIVES THE PRESIDENT A PIECE OF HIS MIND.
It is my faith and my principle that if we live as we should live, they cannot come here, but I am decided in my opinion that if the worst come to the worst, and the Lord permits them to come upon us, I will desolate this whole Territory before I will again submit to the hellish corruption and bondage the wicked are striving to thrust upon us solely for our exercising our rights of freedom and conscience. I will say, in reference to President Buchanan, that for his outrageous wickedness in this movement, he shall wear the yoke as long as he lives; he shall be led about by his party with the yoke on his neck, until they have accomplished their ends and he can do no more for them, and his name shall be forgotten; and "Old Buck," as Mr. Kimball calls him, shall be free. After doing what they have already done to this people, after sending among us the filth and scum of all creation (as some of the officers were as officers of the government, contrary to the genius of our institutions to send poor, pusillanimous curses here to be government officers, we will not submit to it, troops or no troops I shall tell them this in plainness and simplicity, and they shall find that in my simplicity I will try to sustain so righteous a position.
[Extract from an Address of President Heber C. Kimball.]

HEBER'S OPINION OF SENATOR DOUGLAS
Many of you have sustained Judge Douglas as being a true friend to this people, and he is just as big a damned rascal as ever walked and always has been; he has taken a course to get into the chair of State, and that is what he is after: he will try to accomplish that if he goes to hell the next day; but he will not go into the chair of State; he will go to hell.