[Brigham Young Sermon] I thought I set the pattern right - in not going into the field until liberty by council - if the brethren will secure the crops now is the time to cut and preserve it instruct the people tomorrow about it - cut every tree green and dry. Now go it and if your will block up the Canyon and I cant get any. I will drag every thing I find - employ every loafer, but don't intrude upon your neighbor. I shall sell all to fetch it out - if a man wants to go to the devil - I will help him - there is not a man knows any thing about the timber within 30 miles of this valley - this chopping would make a man ashamed - you that are rich send out your teams and hire men - there is no difference about the lumber whether it is 10.00 a 100 or 5.00 a 100. I never heard of reducing toll in a new country before. if grain is scarce, mills are scarce also'- We want to cut a ditch form Cottonwood Creek to this point on the upper part of the fence and then to have waste gates for the water - my feelings are if men wants 40 acres 20 to plant 20 to mow and graze that is farming purposes - we can take all the cattle outside the fence at certain seasons - there is great work to fence against unruly cattle - if a man wants 80 a. let him have it - When a man is able to build against his neighbors crops, he may do it. When a man goes far enough, we'll put the lash on him that he will wish he had never seen this valley - I am bona fide to build up the Kingdom of God, and lay righteousness to the line, and hew away the damned rascals that engenders the lies - many will build on their farms - but they must keep the cattle from doing harm - if this people will do half as well as they know, they will do first rate - next summer we can make a field to herd sheep and weak cattle - we now want all the water to run where we want - I move we actually cast lots for our farms'- Spoke of a Council House - requested the committee dispersed and DH Wells to attend to it - the way to build the Council House - is it not best and prudent to do it on tithing - books open and men attend to it they request it and desire it - most of this community are not satisfied unless they pay tithing - we can then build a council house as we please I feel it well to propose it'- Spoke of the soldiers drawing their bounty money - to take 160 acres or 100 in cash - go before a Magistrate and make oath - and take some person with them and vouch for each other - I have requested Captain Hunt to take names of all the brethren - then give every man a certificate signed officially - and pay the clerk for writing them - Brother Sherwood was to have so much for surveying lots - now shall we have a record, or no record - it out to be know. when Israel was in the favor of the Lord they owned possessions -and the gentiles have been so sanguine as not to allow a Jew to holy land. the Lord Almighty owns the land, but such a man has possession of it. -- Salt Lake City [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.) 9-13-3, 7-8; General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (2002)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[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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