Brigham Young tells the Saints he is not a Prophet/Interpreter of Visions as Joseph, a modern-day Daniel was; instead, in comparison, is a "Yankee guesser."
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- Speech / Court Transcript
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim
- Reference
Brigham Young, "Nebuchadnezzar's Dream—Opposition of Men and Devils to The Latter-Day Kingdom—Governmental Breach of the Utah Mail Contract," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Asa Calkin, 1858), 5:77-78
- Scribe/Publisher
- Asa Calkin
- Audience
- Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
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I am not going to interpret dreams; for I don't profess to be such a Prophet as were Joseph Smith and Daniel; but I am a Yankee guesser; and I guess that James Buchanan has ordered this Expedition to appease the wrath of the angry hounds who are howling around him. He did not design to start men on the 15th of July to cross these Plains to this point on foot. Russell and Co. will probably make from eight to ten hundred thousand dollars by freighting the baggage of the Expedition. What would induce the Government to expend that amount of money for this Territory?
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