Journal of Discourses 5:236; “Our enemies had better count the cost; for if they continue the job, they will want to let it out to subcontractors, before they get half through with it. If they persist in sending troops here, I want the people in the west and in the east to understand that it will not be safe for them to cross the Plains. … I have been told that the first company of packers that went through here this season, on their way from California to the States, shot at every Indian they saw between Carson Valley and Box Elder; and what has been the result? Probably scores of persons have been killed; animals have been taken from nearly all the emigrants that have passed on that road; and the Indians in that region have now more stock than they know how to take care of; and they come into settlements with their pockets full of gold. The whites first commenced on the Indians; and now, if they do not quit such conduct, they must stop traveling through this country; for it is more than I can do to keep the Indians still under such outrageous treatment.
The people do not realize what they have done by driving us into the midst of the Lamanites.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, September 13, 1857
Galatians 5:21; “Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Notice the date my friends. Brigham’s words should’ve sent chills down the spines of those within earshot of his voice and stand as a clear warning to everyone else. Watch your back.
His rhetoric took the place of godly behavior just two days after the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Not to mention the lies he told about the Baker-Fancher Party. They didn’t shoot at any Indians and neither did the Aiken Party who lost their lives a month later. Furthermore, the Massacre of the Gunnison Expedition Party had nothing to do with killing Indians. See Peace & Violence in Mormonism.
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