[Brigham Young Sermon] The people were called together soon after our arrival to hear some instruction from President Young '" He told them he did not want any of them to take any thing away from here, except what they brought with them, not a farthings worth, excepting fuel & feed for their horses & cattle. '" He then spoke about a guard being appointed tonight '" he said there should, at the best calculation, be 20 men at a time (making 40 in both watches '" he also warned the brethren about putting all their horses and cattle into [the] yards, when they could be better guarded than to be scattered indiscriminately, one in one place and another in another '" He further said that if we had an attack from Indians, it would be from the Sioux, not the Pawnee for the latter knew that the former were in the country and were watching them '" that the Sioux when they came to make an attack, always came down a little ravine that lies north-east of us '" he moreover told them it was necessary that the cannon should be got out, and that they should practice the gunnery or cannon loading business a little, (that is, without firing), which those appointed to that business, did, for some time this evening. The farmer's buildings where they lived are across the creek about 1/4 a mile, '" there the Sioux also burned a number of buildings including a blacksmith shop '" our wagon is nearly opposite the Missionaries building '" near this place we shall probably ford the '"Loup Fork'", and some of the brethren are going in the morning in search of a suitable fording place '" It has been quite warm and sultry the latter part of the day. -- Beaver Creek, Nebraska [Horace K. Whitney Journal, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
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