The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-16

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tioa, Unpqua did not sfsm to hear or under
stand. When he dif..he neither reosived
satisfaction nor gave It,. Mr.. Grubbe, greatly
shocked and dstresse assured him, ia hi.
most earnest and couyx ssionats maunsr, thai.
if he died in his pres,ss state of feeling, az
entsrnity of hell Are nj re his portion. Ump:
qua, reclosing his vesi 7 ayes, merely repIieds
phlegmstically, Thss, Rs gel little sleep now
FIRST" Mr.. Grubbe persisted, and roased him
to anger. Drawing ia rs short breath, to hiss
out his whispers more 1s,,inctly, he turned his
head with an eff IT, and pening his eyes, rolled
them round upon hia. ,.hostly adviser, saying
as an afterthought, ylAae the white man I
Wbyf He Say, speIfs% books, and pray ny
God. BE make MS gooS he make you wise,
happy spell your w - books. I pray your
white god. he make naskbot happy. He make
you not good. He ma you too strong, and
crafty, and bad, and lyiL /, for Umpqua. You
make me die, with ma pIng dead befoee-,-in.
the lodge, in tho skiing J.. another. &c. I old
die |; but you shall nc Zee. Too many white
face saw in my life. Is viii see none while
die. Goin
He was seized was another spasm; ane
Herman saw that it Us too late to hope t.
change state Of mind, ,. his circumstances &c
NATURAL if not psrdonsh !, that their presence,
and the associations I'D emotions which is
awakened, could only bcrease bis suffsringa
and hasten his end, At that Mr.. Grubbe Was
in danger of stirripgetf, in the already too
much offended frienda7si the sufferer, very.
serious evaporation, e only against himself.
but his religion, if he par isted longer in PREACH
ing it with pertinacity = untimely. he there.
fore left the lodge at G &c, and took the old
man with him, - with ntls yet determined.
force" Mr.. Grubbe md it hard to forgive
him for when they az 90 in the morning
Umpqua was dead. He bad smiled away his
poor, worn, hsrassed, hrated life, very pesce--
fully at last, in full dress with his sisters hand
clasped close in one of SIS, and her husbands
best spear in the other.
"That precious soul, >sl TRUST ito, everlasts
ing destruction lies me- on your conscience.
than mine, but I shall EVER forgive myself" :.
"My dear old friend & dow can you suppose
that our merciful Father in heaven has anye
thing but the tsnderest, pity in store for that
poor ignorant child of rs,.ure, who had been, il
We can trust his own assount at all, 30 much
more sinned against tLss sinning2" 8
"He denied his Lord s.iri" i
"What did he know lout his Lord2 Moth
ing, most likely, excepta, few bald, confused, :,
contradictory statementa which he could not
understand, from q clasSf men whom he had
found for the most pain matters which he
could understand, to be-, Utterly Enthusiastically
He spoke disrespectfull if our white god, Just
as he might have done = the totem of any In.
dian of whom he had stason to think very ILL.
He spoke very disrespectfully to you, toe, not
knowing you. Cannot you forgive him ?" 4
"D Do you take me fol Turk, sir 2" i
ate SS;san Bus st yts III ia spa sss
considerable, and compassionate person thar
Christ. The guilt of this poor savage's abjura !
ton seems to lie, chiefly or solely, with those
who drove him to it, BY disgracing and practi~-
cally denying their faith and very heavy guilt
theirs is; and we might have come in for q
share of it, if, when he eaought he had at length
fairly got away from = of us, to die in peact
among his kindred, vi. had remained to bese
bis very death. bed, while the very sight aud
sound of MS, if half he said was true, might we'll
have been enough to ansettle hisi reason. Do
you think We could have made him love our
God, aud all in a minute, too, by making hisl
angry with us?'
81 believe in instantaneus conversion, SIR"
81 scarcely believe,in any great chance Of
it in that case. Besides, it might have taken
but very little more-sAer what his friends had
Just heard-of what they must have considereds
persecution of him, t-induce them to murdeI
you; and then What, 20 you think, would have
become of their souls }"
ave had ought Is do our dooty, and take
the consequences, sir"
"No doubt; but CA ht we to do it in an in.
judicious way, and Hereby bring bad conse
quences unnecessarily upon others?"
81 am content to be fool for the gospel
SIR"
$50 was st. Paul; but be was also contentet
to be all things to sn men, and to give none
unnecessary offence, Besides, / do not thinl
we were beginning viz, Umpqua, in Christian
I mean Christ-likes~ay. he was worn out
and broken.hearted. Christ said, Come unit
me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, an
I will give you rest; net Come unto me, a
ye that are weary and heavy laden, or wi
give you hell fire. 1adeed, you must forgiv
me. do not mean TO forget for a momen
that am q much younger and less experience
man than you but 4 should be exceedingly
sorry, for the Indians sake, to have them fu1
Their irritated now. We must remember wis
| an unfortunate impression Umpqua's stor;
must have made upoa such impetuous, undn
9 ciplined creatures" Il
Herman sent rsuplendent brooch of rub:
It glass and gliding to Weahwashtay, as an add.
tional decoration for the corpse which sat in sta
in lodge near her 5wn. He also requeste
permission to come to the funeral, and se
q among tie silent uasurners patiently throug
u that day and the following night, as sincere
II mourner as any thepe; while, within him, hi
B. heart preached to HIN an awful sermon, upc
V the text "Woe unto the world, because of off,
cesl For it must teds be that offences cons
y but woe to that an by whom the offere
IA cometh !" He mop ned not only as a man.
the poor fellow,msssso wantonly done to dessi
e. but as a Christian, for his Master crucits
to afresh, even in these days, and put to an ole
shame, by the barbarities practiced by thu
g baptized in his name upon their weaker bret
9, rem and, as patiot, for the disgrace ofSc
9, country-so cruel q step-mother to her feel Z
o. IL