nauvoo , sunday , january 5 brigham young wrote in his diary : i went to the stand and addressed the saints on the necessity of having more order and putting down iniquity , and exhorted the brethren to rise up en masse , and put down the thieving , swearing , gambling , bogus-making , retailing spirituous liquors , bad houses , and all abominations practiced in our midst by our enemies , who , after they could not live among us any longer would go out to the world and publish that these things were practiced by us .