I am glad and my soul rejoices in these things, and I believe that the people are ready to shoulder their guns and walk into these canyons and line them from here to Fort Bridger in defence of the Constitution of the United States and the rights which both the laws of God and man guarentee [sic] to us.

( Source:

Wilford Woodruff, Journal History of the Church, 27 Sep 1857, 4

)