"On the 8th inst., the Sabbath succeeding the date of the mass meeting, Brigham delivered a very treasonable and violent harangue in the Tabernacle, to an immense audience, which filled almost to suffocation that capacious structure. . . . 'We have always,' he said, 'done everything in our power to show our loyalty. Is there anything that could be asked that we would not do? Yes; let the present Administration ask us for a thousand men, or even five hundred, and I'd see them damned first, and then they couldn't have them! What do you think of that? [Loud cries of "Good, good!" and great applause.] We have liars, murderers, and thieves among us, who are watching us, to report something against our loyalty. Their object is to send another army here to "wipe us out"; but let me tell them that cannot be done; "they can't come it,"--putting his thumb to his nose, and making the peculiar gyrating movement with the fingers, so very expressive among rowdies and shoulder-hitters. At this antic, a long, and loud, and universal shout and laughter went up from all parts of the house, joined with clapping of hands, and stamping of the feet, in one general din and uproar. "'It was said that we were disloyal because we burned some seventy government wagons, at the time Johnston's army came here. Well, let me ask, _what the devil were they doing out here_? Coming here to destroy, and wipe us from the face of the earth; and we only took and destroyed some of their good things, so that they had to _gnaw mules' bones_, and eat cattle which had frozen to death; that's what they did. "'I swear some, my brethren and sisters; but it is always in the pulpit,--never anywhere else.' "Following Brigham came 'brother Heber,' a large, gross man, bald-headed, and with a harsh and disagreeable voice, and apparently fast approaching the age of 'the lean and slippered pantaloon.' His remarks were in the main but a re-hash of those made by Brigham, save in one or two noticeable points, as follows:--'They say I am a secessionist, _but that's a lie_. Then they say I have more than one wife; well, I _have_ several wives, and lots of children, and by the help of the Lord I'll have many more of them!' "Speaking about anticipated trouble with the General Government, he said:--'The entire power of the United States cannot destroy us, for the Lord will fight our battles.' "_Brigham fears Arrest._