The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-12-29
and eternal life.

and eternal life.
Two days were required to repair our
wagons aud rest our animals, during which
time one woman and two Indians we're
killed in drunken row. It was heart.
sickening TO contemplate the ruin that was
being brought upon these untutored tribes
by the children Of our Christian Govern
ment. The wars among themselves,
which are very destructive, are nothing
compared to the ruin and moral death
brought upon them by liquor and shame
less fornicators. Thirty-two years before
this date these and all the tribes to the
source of the Missouri river and to the
mouth Of the Colorado, were told by
Lewis Il Clrrk-and the declaration has
been repeated almost every year--that
they had Great Father at the Rising
Sun who entertained for all his red chill
dren the warmest love, and that, under
no consideration, would he ever alloaSAfs
white children to bring among their red
brethren the "waters Of death" or to mo-
lest them in their lands, their property or
their persons They had only to confide
implicitly in their Great Father, to Sc
cure perpetual peace and happiness. And
behold is this work of death-onspread
ing and deep as hell--the fulfilling of such
promises? Those who make the prom
ises and those who thus fulfill them may
be two distinct classes Of agents. The
Judge will attend TO such matters on the
Day Of Account. After thirty years
of close observation, am prepared to af-
firm that there has never entered and re-
mained in the Indian country a liquor
seller or a gallon of liquor, or a seducer-
as there never has Missionary or Bible
without the direct or implied consent Of
the Government. The Government has
only had to scratch the pen, aud Mission
aries and Bibles have hicd to the Indian
country. How was it with Worcester
and Butler, and how is it to-day with the
Sez Perces Missiops2
Saturday noon, May q, We we're ready
TO move, when we learned by express from
Council Bluffs that the Fur Company
were FIVE days and half ahead of US, in
addition to the % miles, with fresh ami
mails and experienced mountain men,
pushing forward with all speed, to pre-
clude all idea Of our oVertaking them
But DIR. Whitman, true to the confidence
reposed in US by the Church which had
sent Us forth, determined to push forward
beyond the Pawnee Nation, as far as it
would be deemed safe, and if the mission
failed the christian world should see a
good reason. Besides, he said, he leaned
upon the same arm that had sent the chol-
era into that same Company the year be-
fore.
Rev. Mr. Dunbar, Missionary to the
Pawnees, was to accompany US two days
travel beyond the Pawnee yillage-as far
as be deemed it prudent for us TO venture
alone into the Sioux country. Mr.. Dun
bar had come down to Council bluffs to
meet his expected reinforcements-Dr.
and Mrs. Satterlee and Mr. and Mrs.
Ailis-whom our party had laft at Fort
Leavenworth, except Mrs. Satterlee, who
had died at Liberty, of consumption.
we left the Otto Mission Saturday at
noon, followed By the prayers of that
godly family, but who were quite sure we
would have TO return. still had to be
carried in the wagon, not able to swallow
anything but thin Cruel. The feelings
with which our angel wives took leave Of
this last beacon of civilization will appear
from an extract from Mrs. Spaulding's
journal of that date:
"When We leave these dear Christian
friends We expect to meet no more in this
world, unless sent out by the Board in
some future years but / am happy"
Sunday We struck the trail of the cara
van, and reached the Elk Horn-100
miles wide-before night. A bull-boat,
already constructed to our hand, at the
expense Of some time to the Company,
was seen fast to the opposite shore. Cur
Indian boys, swimming over with light
cord at first, soop had firm Inns and the
boat plying. Everything was over before
dark-the cattle and horses swimming, as
they did all other rivers.
Monday vas able to drive team
The roads now were excellent, as also the
grass. During the day we crossed four
deep ravines, where the Company had evil
IDENTIFY been detained to fill them up With
brush and earth for the passage of their
heavy wagons. But Tuesday about ten
o'clock, we came, not to the borders of
the Red Sea, but to marked spot where
God had taken this Company in hand
again, not far from where he sent the
cholera among them the year before
This time He had not taken their wagon
wheels off, as he did the Egyptians, but
had set them on fire, determined they
should etop till his missionaries could
coae up. The Company, in their great
hurry to be off and out of reach of the
white women, forgot to take tar or grease
for their wagons, and their axles had Ia
ken fire. They were compelled to un-
hitch, drive their stock great distance
to cottonwood on the Loup Fork, cut
wood, make ashes, kill two oxen to get
grease, and make soap for wagon grease.
This took two days.
That night at two o'clock Mr.. Gray and
myself, with the two wagons, reached the
Loup Fork. Doctor and Mrs. Whitman,
with the cattle, did not arrive that night
but remained out without supper, break.
fast or bed Daylight discovered mules
to us an the other side Of the river. Ii
it possible that God has brought US VI
with the Company Our morning gun
was overwhelmingly by white men
land soon two Americans came over on
horseback. The Company was really
} there They had been detained here