[Brigham Young Sermon] President Brigham Young arose and said that he wanted the brethren who were going to be at the Horn (A little stream that empties into the Platt River) by Saturday night next if they wished to follow him. Spoke of the Danger that the teams were in at the present time by being scattered as the brethren were. Said that Miller, the Omaha & Oto agent was stirring them up to commit depredations on our cattle and for this he cursed him in the name of Israel's God with corruption and rottenous of bones and that he should go down to hell and all the saints said Amen. But the land he blessed for the sake of the Saints. He then cursed all the gentiles that inhabited the Pottawatomie lands and that lived in the state of Missouri with the same curse that they should sicken and die and that we did not owe this nation one cent, that they had contracted the debt and should Pay it and bye and bye it should be measured up unto them double and pressed down. The Devils have spoken through the tabernacle of clay and prophesied truth concerning us. They said that the Saints should not stay in Jackson, nether did they, and as the Apostles went from place to place preaching the word there, the Prophets followed up and said, You cannot stay. Neither could we. But now they let the Mormons get into the valleys of the mountains and all hell cannot rout them. Well, this prophecy is true, and by and by those that are here will have to flee to the mountains without an outfit. Just as Brother Joseph Smith said, now I prophecy that we can never be driven from the valley unless we drive our selves by mutiny. But he would be prepared for that and would tap it in the bud. Whenever a vein would rise, he would tap it immediately then and there. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [DJLD 1:27]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
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