[Brigham Young Discourse] Brigham told them they must learn to obey counsel, and although the movements were strange, yet the hands of the Lord was in them. Said he came begging but that those moneyed need not begin to tremble, for it was men that were wanted. He wanted 500 men to volunteer to go to California. The US proposed to equip that number of Mormons, if they would go and take possession of California. The Lord was working in their behalf, for here was an offer to take five hundred to the place of destination and under the protection of the United States, that if they had done as he directed in the winter, that there would have been no need of this enlistment for the Twelve would have been in California, and then when they called for volunteers, they could have told them that they were going right where they desired. The Lord was working with the hearts of the President and rulers and now both friends and enemies were conspiring to aid in their removal and that Brother Little had been influenced by the spirit to go and confer with the president and had made the same arrangements provided they were sanctioned by the Twelve and he had now come on to get counsel. -- Mosquito Creek, Iowa [Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-12-1, 120]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
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