Indiana State sentinel., 1845-02-20


make up safe caravan, to undertake hazardous
task, and overawe the Indians. Only think of it
men, women, and children forSaking their homes,
bidding farewell TO all the endearments of society,"
and setting ont journey two thousand miles,
upon route where they have to make their roads,
construct their own bridges hew out their boats,
and xiii their meat; where twenty miles is an
average days travel, exposed to every variety of
weather, and the naked Garth their only restingpace
In sickness they have physician In death there is
one TO perform the last sad offices. Their bodies
buried by the way side to be exhumed and 6e6led
by the Indians, or devoured by the wolves But yet
there dauntiess spirits who viii brave all this aud
Government ought to encourage them
He knew there those who say that these emf
grants 60 TO Oregon In view of all these consequences,
and they need not 90 unless at their own option
There Is no compulsory process served upon them
True, sir and there Is obligations the part of
merchants to send their goods to sea- They kn0,
the dangers of the coast and the dangers of the
but yet, sir, we continually constructing buoys,
beacons lighthouses and harbors for their protection
True, sir and there is compulsory process to force
the sailor on voyage to sea. lie knows there are
pirates, and runs his own risk; but yet we have our
ships of in every direction for his benefit.
There is extent of country beyond the Rocky
mountains $50 miles long and $50 miles wide cover
ing 100000 square miles, 300,0G0O00 of acres.
Persons from personal observation report that for
picturesque beauty, exubeent fertility and salubry
of climate region of earth of equal extent sur
passes the yales and table lands of Oregon. There
the cattle Craze all winter and it must eventually be
very important country for Its trade in hides, beef
taow, &c. Pine and fir trees on the Columbia grow
the size of forty fifty feet in crcumer
enc and three hundred to three hundred and fifty feet
in helght-lt being sometimes hundred and fifty
feet TO the branches. Although rather bad for corn
(not worse, however, than many parts of New Hamp
shire and Vermont) yet it is well calculated for
wheat barley, oats, peas apples potatoes, and all
/ roots i'm M
Its intrinsic value. Of its commercial Importance he
had already spoken. There is DANCE of losing
this country. We have only a nominal possession
now but yet there American citizens willing to
90 there, and go, too, with determination to
allegiance but that OF this country Shall we secure
them American rights when treading American soil
Shall we deny them our laws-ay, SIR our flag Our
action on this bill will say.
! There those who, on all questions of policy in
relation the States Territories actuated
by the narrowly contracted notion that whatever ben
efis them tends SO much depopulae the old States
Is this so Has either the emigration of our fathers
or the emigration of the present day, injured in the
least either France, Germany, England Scotland or
Ireland 1t has yet to appear. You may turn the
tide of emigration but you cannot stop it. If the
adventurous frontiersman cannot go to Oregon, he
VIII go somewhere else; he will not be crowded he
will not allow his game to be frightened by the click
of his neighbor's rifle, the bark of his dog. He
had friend who lived in Ohio, as long ago it
on the extreme frontier. He had been moving and
moving away from the nroads Of society until he had
reached the banks of the ssis sppi and he then
about to move again. He asked him his reason. He
said it the dying advice of his father " to keep
twenty miles beyond laro and calomel; and doctor
and lawyer were within fifteen miles, and he
thought 1t time 10 CO.. Another of these adventurerS
said, gentleman could live in community after
his wife could not invite every person within FIVE
miles for fear her log cabin would not contain them.
There is class of who will be continually on
the outskirts of civilized society 1t in vain for
to seek the reason As we'll may we ask why the
waterfowl, hatched land away from its species,
: will reach its element or die We may well call
it instinct and LEI it go Aside from the eccentric
characters alluded to, the young men from the old
States continually seeking out new fields for the
development of their talents. Their industry and
enterprise make them explore every part of the world
In many parts it is considered discreditabe for
I young man to settle down under the nose of his
7 parents, as showing lack of manly perseverance
I and with some the further off they go the pfouder
they themselves feel and the prouder their parents
/ feel for them Some years ago, IN almost the last
place In New Hampshire where snow capped the cir
cumambent mountains the year round, and where sie
chief product was granite, land that plenty It
could be given away,) he occupied the desk
in country school-house with couple of young lads
whose mothers had taken occasion TO slur him for
want of enterprise in not having gone further than
Illinois. In looking up these lads, he found one TAX
\ Ing an active part Ill ulc
in Oregon petition Congress for the passage of some
IS such bill that before The other is settled
, in Mexico and is taking active part in the reTolu
= r tion against Santa Anna. Sir, cannot stop the
rowing spirit of young men, should we if we
could. They will not settle down, and especially
Il those from Yankee SOCK until they have FIRST look
ed around and he wished them, and invited them,
take look at OREGON (as the merchants have ) be
/ fore they purchase elsewhere. And he wanted The
Government to guarantee to them that they should no
lose their lives and their scalps in getting there,
e should not be claimed as British subjects But h
ought here allude to another class of western
r pioneers He alluded to the religious missionaries
RI who arc always ahead, paving the way for civiza
l. tion overcoming the preudices of the savage, ant
II instlling into his bosom the principles of christianity
l. Who has moved far beyond the reach OF or
ganized governments that he has not found Mctho
I dist minister preceding him He was willing tina
" the Oldest settlers of Iowa, Wisconsin, Texas Cali
Of forna Oregon should answer this question Indeed
E. the first, and now the most important settlement II
sz Oregon, that on the Willamette, originated with
COLONY of Methodists from Boston. He was not deny
ing to other denominations due credit in speeding h
ly march of civilization. They had each and every on
m done good service. But he spoke OF the Metho
at dist because we are stre find him threading Tn
wilderness in advance of all settlements whether
st do others or not Sir the tide Of emigration has
" strongly towards Oregon. Though the route is
Is perilous one; though from exposure to every ncen
il, ency of the weather they liable TO every disease
s. vet emigrans are continually vending their way
4 Independence and tarrying until enough for an EN-
,r grating party up 1t cannot be possible thu
these thousands Of our citizens own soil are
IS be abandoned to the mercless savage, given up
o. the British Government adopted British citizen
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