Discourse, 30 June 1843, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff

it into his teeth Their is a secret in this; if their is not power in our Charter, and Courts, then there is not power in the State of , nor in the Congress <​or Constitution​> of the for the gave unto her constitution & Charter & gave unto her Charters which have ceded unto unto us our vested rights & has no right or power to take them from us all the power their was in she gave to And any man that says to the contrary is a fool. I want you to learn O Israel what is for the happiness & peace of this & people. If our enemies are determined to oppress us & deprive us of our rights & privileges as they have done & if the Authorities that be on the earth will not assist us in our rights nor give us that protection which the Laws & Constitution of the & of this garrentees unto us: then we will claim them from higher power from heaven & from God Almighty & the Constitution &c I SWEAR I will not deal so mildly with them again for the time has come when forbearance is no longer a virtue, And if you are again taken unlawfully as <​you​> are at liberty to give loose to Blood and Thunder But act with Almighty Power. But good luck for me as it always has been in evry time of trouble friends though strangers were raised up unto me & assisted me, The time has come when the veil is torn of[f] from the State of & they have deliverd me from the State of : friends that were raised up unto me would have spilt their Blood for me to have delivered me then I told them not I would be deliverd [p. [55]]