1857: "If the United States sends out troops to fight us this season we shall whip them out. Then they will send out reinforcements. Then we shall have the Lamanites" [American Indians] "with us & the more the United states send out the worse off they will be for they will perish with Famine".

"It was then decided to call a meeting of the people who lived true to counsel, which was held in the school-house in Manti…The young man was there, and was again requested, ordered and threatened, to get him to surrender the young woman to Snow, but true to his plighted troth, he refused to consent to give up the girl. The lights were then put out. An attack was made on the young man. He was severely beaten, and then tied with his back down on a bench, when Bishop Snow took a bowie-knife, and performed the operation in a most brutal manner, and then took the portion severed from his victim and hung it up in the school-house on a nail, so that it could be seen by all who visited the house afterwards.

"The party then left the young man weltering in his blood, and in a lifeless condition. During the night he succeeded in releasing himself from his confinement, and dragged himself to some hay-stacks, where he lay until the next day, when he was discovered by his friends. The young man regained his health, but has been an idiot or quite lunatic ever since…

"After this outrage old Bishop Snow took occasion to getup a meeting…When all had assembled, the old man talked to the people about their duty to the Church, and their duty to obey counsel, and the dangers of refusal, and then publicly called attention to the mangled parts of the young man, that had been severed from his person, and stated that the deed had been done to teach the people that the counsel of the Priesthood must be obeyed. To make a long story short, I will say, the young woman was soon after forced into being sealed to Bishop Snow.”

PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR

September 15th, 1857 Citizens of Utah: We are invaded by a hostile force who are evidently assailing us to accomplish our overthrow and destruction.

For the last twenty-five years we have trusted officials of the government, from constables and justices to judges, governors, and Presidents, only to be scorned, held in derision, insulted, and betrayed. Our houses have been plundered and then burned, our fields laid waste, our principal men butchered, while under the pledged faith of the government for their safety, and our families driven from their homes to find that shelter in the barren wilderness and that protection among hostile savages, which were denied them in the boasted abodes of Christianity and civilization.

The constitution of our common country guarantees unto us all that we do now or have ever claimed. If the constitutional rights which pertain unto us as American citizens were extended to Utah, according to the spirit and meaning thereof, and fairly and impartially administered, it is all that we can ask, all that we have ever asked.

Our opponents have availed themselves of prejudice existing against us, because of our religious faith, to send out a formidable host to accomplish our destruction. We have had no privilege or opportunity of defending ourselves from the false, foul, and unjust aspersions against us before the nation. The government has not condescended to cause an investigating committee, or other persons, to be sent to inquire into and ascertain the truth, as is customary in such cases. We know those aspersions to be false; but that avails us nothing. We are condemned unheard, and forced to an issue with an armed mercenary mob, which has been sent against us at the instigation of anonymous letter writers, ashamed to father the base, slanderous falsehoods which they have given to the public; of corrupt officials, who have brought false accusations against us to screen themselves in their own infamy; and of hireling priests and howling editors, who prostitute the truth for filthy lucre's sake.

The issue, which has thus been forced upon us compels us to resort to the great first law of self-preservation, and stand in our own defense, a right guaranteed to us by the genius of the institutions of our country, and upon which the government is based. Our duty to ourselves, to our families, requires us not to tamely submit to be driven and slain, without an attempt to preserve ourselves; our duty to our country, our holy religion, our God, to freedom and liberty, requires that we should not quietly stand still and see those fetters forging around us which were calculated to enslave and bring us in subjection to an unlawful, military despotism, such as can only emanate, in a country of constitutional law, from usurpation, tyranny, and oppression.

Therefore, I, Brigham Young, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of Utah, in the name of the people of the United States in the territory of Utah, forbid:

First - All armed forces of every description from coming into this Territory, under any pretence whatever. Second - That all forces in said Territory hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice to repel any and all such invasion. Third - Martial law is hereby declared to exist in this Territory from and after the publication of this proclamation, and no person shall be allowed to pass or repass into or through or from this Territory without a permit from the proper officer.

Given under my hand and seal, at Great Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah, this 15th day of September, A.D. 1857, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-second.

Brigham Young

"The party consisted of six men... on reaching Kaysville, twenty-five miles north of Salt Lake City, they were all arrested on the charge of being spies for the Government. The Aikin party had stock, property, and money estimated at $25,000. Nothing being proved against them they were told they should be 'sent out of the Territory by the Southern route.' Four of them started, leaving with Buck and one of the unknown men in the city. The party had for an escort, Orrin Porter Rockwell, John Lot, ____ Miles, and one other. When they reached Nephi, one hundred miles south, Rockwell informed the Bishop, Bryant, that his orders were to “have the men used up there”. Bishop Bryant called a council at once, and the following men were selected to assist: J. Bigler (now a Bishop,) P. Pitchforth, his 'first councillor,' John Kink, and ____ Pickton....

The selected murderers, at 11 p.m., started from the Tithing House and got ahead of the Aikins', who did not start till daylight. The latter reached the Sevier River, when Rockwell informed them they could find no other camp that day; they halted, when the other party approached and asked to camp with them, for which permission was granted. The weary men removed their arms and heavy clothing, and were soon lost in sleep... the escort and the party from Nephi attacked the sleeping men with clubs and the kingbolts of the wagons. Two died without a struggle. But John Aiken bounded to his feet, but slightly wounded, and sprang into the brush. A shot from the pistol of John Kink laid him senseless. 'Colonel' also reached the brush, receiving a shot in the shoulder from Port Rockwell, and believing the whole party had been attacked by banditti, he made his way back to Nephi. With almost superhuman strength he held out during the twenty-five miles... ghastly pale and drenched with his own blood, staggering feebly along the streets of Nephi.... his story elicited a well-feigned horror."

"Brigham teaches the Indian tribes around him that the Americans are their common enemy; that all this American continent of right belongs to tribe of Ephaim, described in the Bible; and that the people of Salt Lake, and the surrounding Indian nation, belong to the tribe of Ephraim, and they only; and that they are going to have and possess the whole of North and South America for their inheritance”.

Young also sends parties to explore the White Mountains along what is now the Utah/Nevada border where, he erroneously believes, there are valleys that will comfortably accommodate up to 100,000 people. Residents of Utah County south of Salt Lake are asked to build and maintain roads, and to help the incoming inhabitants of the northern communities. Even after Alfred Cumming is installed as the new Governor in April of 1857, the Mormon’s southern migration continues. It is estimated that the migration included the relocation of as many as 30,000 people between March and July. Historians Allen and Leonard write:

"It was an extraordinary operation. As the Saints moved south they cached all the stone cut for the Salt Lake Temple and covered the foundations to make it resemble a plowed field. They boxed and carried with them twenty thousand bushels of tithing grain, as well as machinery, equipment, and all the Church records and books. The sight of thirty thousand people moving south was awesome, and the amazed Governor Cumming did all he could to persuade them to return to their homes. Brigham Young replied that if the troops were withdrawn from the territory, the people would stop moving"...."

PROCLAMATION ON THE REBELLION IN UTAH

"Now, therefore I, James Buchanan, President of the United States of America, have thought proper to issue this, my Proclamation, enjoining upon all public officers in the Territory of Utah to be diligent and faithful, to the full extent of the power, in the execution of the laws; commanding all citizens of the United States in the said Territory to aid and assist the officers in the performance of their duties; offering the inhabitants of Utah, who shall submit to the laws, a free pardon for seditions and treasons heretofore by them committed; warning those who shall persist, after notice of this proclamation, in the present rebellion against the United States, that they must expect no further leniency, but look to be rigorously dealt with according to their desserts; and declaring that the military forces now in Utah, and hereafter to be sent there, will not be withdrawn until the inhabitants of that Territory shall manifest a proper sense of the duty which they owe to this government".

James Buchanan April 6, 1858.

Brigham Young accepts Buchanan's terms and pardon, but denies that Utah ever rebelled against the United States. And, on June 19, a reporter for the New York Herald who is in the Territory to cover the war writes:

"Thus was peace made - thus was ended the 'Mormon war', which...may be thus historisized: - Killed, none; wounded, none; fooled, everybody."

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so" (Journal of Discourses, 10:110).

"When the people shall have torn to shreds the Constitution of the United States the Elders of Israel will be found holding it up to the nations of the earth and proclaiming liberty and equal rights to all men" – Journal of Discourses 21:8.

“We talk about Christianity, but it is a perfect pack of nonsense....It is a sounding brass and a tinkling symbol; it is as corrupt as hell; and the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work that the Christianity of the nineteenth century”. John Taylor, (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, page. 167).

“What! are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast”. John Taylor (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, page. 25).

"Why is it, in fact, that we should have a devil? Why did the Lord not kill him long ago? Because he could not do without him. He needed the devil and a great many of those who do his bidding to keep men straight, that we may learn to place our dependence on God, and trust in Him, and to observe his laws and keep his commandments” (Journal of Discourses 23:336).

"You and each of you do covenant and promise that you will pray and never cease to pray to Almighty God to avenge the blood of the prophets upon this nation, and that you will teach the same to your children and to your children's children unto the third and fourth generation."

The incident is documented at: U.S. Senate Document 486 (59th Congress, 1st Session) Proceedings Before the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Protests Against the Right of Hon. Reed Smoot, a Senator from the State of Utah, to hold his Seat. 4 vols.[+1 vol. index] (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906) Brigham Young’s 1845 oath of vengeance against America is shown below:

"You do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, his holy angels, and these witnesses, that you will avenge the blood of Joseph Smith upon this nation; and so teach your children; and that you will from this day henceforth and forever begin and carry out hostility against this nation, and keep the same a profound secret now and ever. So help you God."

"German boys! Do you know the country without freedom, the country of terror and tyranny? Yes, you know it well, but are afraid to talk about it. They have intimidated you to such an extent that you don't dare talk for fear of reprisals. Yes you are right; it is Germany — Hitler Germany! Through their unscrupulous terror tactics against young and old, men and women, they have succeeded in making you spineless puppets to do their bidding." — Helmuth Hübener

"Hitler enjoyed at least as much popularity among German Saints as he did among the population in general. His apparent dynamism and self-confidence seemed to show a way out of the chaos and weakness of the Weimar years. Moreover, as ‘good Germans,' the Mormons were acutely aware that Hitler had risen to power through legal channels... Some Church members even saw Hitler as God’s instrument, preparing the world for the millennium. Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi party with its emphasis on active involvement by every member... The vital importance of ‘Aryan’ ancestry gave new significance to genealogical research. And the Fuhrer himself, the non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian who yielded to no one in his desire for absolute law and order, seemed to embody many of the most basic LDS virtues."

“…The Church's German magazine, Der Stern, reminded its readers in 1935 that Senator Reed Smoot had long been a friend of Germany, and this attitude seemed to receive official sanction during President Grant's 1937 visit.”

"The vital importance of ‘Aryan' ancestry gave new significance to genealogical research."

Nixon always believed it was that incident that cost him the 1960 Presidential election. Coincidentally, the 1972 Watergate break-in involves Howard Hughes again, and the alleged $1,000,000 bribe Hughes made to Richard Nixon to facilitate Hughes’ purchase of Air West, which became Hughes AirWest. The bribe is allegedly passed from Hughes to Donald Nixon, John Meier, Ken Wright, Bebe Rebozo and then to Richard Nixon. John Meier was an employee of Hughes Dymanics who was hired by Bill Gay, the head of Hughes’ “Mormon Mafia”. Meier was a business associate of Donald Nixon, Richard’s brother. Ken Wright was the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Bebe Rebozo was a banker and close friend of Richard Nixon’s. At some point during the transfer of funds, Meier was asked to keep a locked briefcase in his hotel room overnight, and Ken Wright was to arrive the next morning to pick it up. But, when Wright arrived the next morning to pick up the brefcase, Wright opened up the briefcase to inspect the contents and called Bebe Rebozo over to the room. Apparently, Meier was unaware that Wright would be perform these actions and Meier became nervous.

Uncomfortable by what was transpiring in his room, Meier allegedly secluded himself in his bathroom while the contents of the briefcase is counted and transferred to Reboso. But, at some point during the transaction, Rebozo becomes alerted to Meier’s presence and is none too happy it. Consequently, Rebozo hastily completes the transfer and quickly leaves the hotel room. Nixon, who also became aware that Meier was an unplanned witness in the hotel room, was also concerned that the "leftist" Meier now had the goods on him and might start talking. Because of his concern, Nixon used his executive powers to launch a "pre-emptive strike" against Meier in the form of an IRS investigation, which John Ehrlichman is said to have initiated. It also turns out that Nixon’s concerns about Meier talking are totally justified because Meier later meets with a journalist by the name of George Clifford on September 8th, 1973 at Vancouver International Airport in Vancouver, BC. (British Columbia is also the site of Colorado City’s sister city, Bountiful). It also turns out that Clifford is columnist Jack Anderson’s assistant. Anderson, a well-known investigative reporter at the time, and is also a Mormon. During the meeting, Meier allegedly discloses information about Hugh’s $1,000,000 payoff, Nixon’s involvement and other information that is potentially embarrassing to the Nixon Administration.

All of this information eventually makes its way to powerful members of the DNC via Hughes’ Mormon mafia, “Deepthroat” who is Mormon and Anderson who is Mormon. Members of the DNC then allegedly developed a strategic plan to bait and lure Nixon into breaking into the Watergate building. Gerald Bellett, in Age of Secrets writes, “Watergate was a masterpiece of political espionage that can be boiled down to a few important elements: the deliberate baiting of the Nixon camp; the laying of a false trail to the DNC headquarters; the use of an inside spy... and the collaring of the burglary team by accident or by design". Today, it is widely speculated that Nixon’s entire Watergate strategy centered on key assumptions that the DNC had learned about the Hughes payoff, that the DNC was planning on using this information to embarrass the Nixon Administration during the 1972 Presidential election. And, after what happened during Nixon’s 1960 Presidential campaign, it was Nixon’s own desire to find out exactly what the Democrats knew, which led Nixon breaking into the Watergate.