The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-12-22

LECTURES BY REV. H, H, SPAuLDING
Early Oregon MissiOns-.-rheir Inn
pOrIanoe I'm Securing tho Conn
Try to Amerle0ns.
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That Sabbath was day Of refreshing
to us. It was providentially tho appoint
ed day for father in Israel to preach
He said he had been laboging eighteen
years alone in this Southern Illinois, aud
this was the first time brother in the
ministry had been with him. He had
hcacd ofmissionaries passing up the river,
but now his gaze beheld them for the first
time-Christian men and women leaving
sweet homes forever, to live among and
preach Christ to the distant heather. II
is none other than an angels visit"
Very early Monday morning God sent
along the steamer "Majestic," which,
contrary to predictions, answered our sig
nal at once and took us on board, and we
left this little town of Christ for st. Louis,
followed by the prayers of this godly
man and his few disciples. Before night
We passed the steamer that could not af-
ford to stop over the Sabbath, on sand
bar, with preacher, mill and all, on board,
where they had been fast for more than
twenty-four hours. How long they re-
mained there l know not, as VIC saw nc
more of them.
We reached st. Louis March 30th
and here again there were strong remon-
stranees against the idea Of our wives at
tempting TO cross the mountains. IL was
urged by old mountain men that no cara
van would be strong enough to protect
them against the mountain tribes, who
seemed frantic to get possession of white
woman. They repeated tho report that
one white woman, in attempting to reach
the mountains, had been seized, in spite
of the caravan Of whites, and borne of
by powerful band of painted savages-
Our ladies replied TO those fears "We
are going to cross the Rocky Mountains
IA Gods name"
The Fur Company's steamer would not
leave st. Louis for two weeks; but the
lproprietors of the Company acknowledged
their obligations to Doctor Whitman for
his important medical services the last
year, and they cheerfully removed their
assurance that our effects and ladies'
should be taken to Council Bluffs in their
steamer, from any point on the Missouri
river. We should stop to purchase our
animals and await their upward tsip gith
goods for their caravan, which was to take
up its march TO the Far West from that
point. Events will show how well they
kept their word.
DIR. Wisner pronounced our mission ga
mission to the Grey Bears" We here
received our "Great Charter" by mail,
from the American GoYernment to open
an Emigrant Wagon Road from the Mis-.
souri to the Columbia rivers that il, the
permit of that honest, DEMOCRATIC Chris.
tiaa and patriot, Lewis Cass, Secretary oi
War, for Us ''to enter and settle in the
Indian couptry west Of tho Rocky Noun.
tains.H This generous permit Of the
Government really established the lap
wal Mission claim to the writer and his
sainted wife, as a mission home for life
but that home was still more securely con.
frmed to them by the Nez Perccs Nation
in council assembled at Fort Walla Walla
in November, 1884, after we had arrived
In the country and selected the site, and
as the chiefs were about to conduct us
with glad hearts, TO their people as the
''teachers of Gods book" for whom they
had waited SO long, and to plant us in oul
new home, ga thousand miles from any
place ;" but still doubly confirmed to the
Board of Missions by generous act o
Congress approved August Ia, l848, con
frming the title TO GAO acres of land, Il
include the improvements at all the Mis-
gion stations in the Indian country to tht
several Mission Boards to which said Mis-
ATOMS belong" But the Indian Depart
ment has seized apd occupied the Lapwa
Mission claim--=diTegaFding the notifca
tion in the Land Office, the published no
tice in the public journals for years fol
settlers to keep off the claim, the notice
served on the local agent by authority o
the Board, to stop building, and my owr
repeated remonstrances for six years
and have steadily refused me my home
and have denied me the privilege of build
ing any where on the old mission claim O
$40 acres, or, indeed, anywhere Op the
Reservation.
This seizing of the Lapyai Mission
claim by the Government, or the Indiar
Department, is most remarkable. And i
is the more remarkable from the fact tina
some fifteen other mission claims among
the Indian tribes, of another religious
sect, in the same country, confirmed BY
the same act of Congress that confrmet
the Lapwai claim to the American Board
remain unmolested by the Government
and some twenty-three missionaries O
that sect are allowed to remain at thei
several mission stations and to 90 on will
their mission work unmoIested. And i
is still more remarkable from the potori
GUS fact that that the missionaries of thi
said Society werO ordered by the Coy
ernment Of Oregon in 1848 to leave th
Indian country, as the country east of tn,
Cascades was closed against all a,issiono
Eries, consequent upon the massacre o
Or. Whitman and the American emf
grants at his station, and the long Indial
vars that followed. The missionaries o
this Society that are nov allowed to re
main in the country and on their mission
stations, while the only Protestant Indial
Missionary is expelled from his mission
openly defed that order Of the Govern
mept in 1848, and haye remained in tn,
country to this day; and they were actuall,
detected, sqQn after that order was issued
I in the attempt to smqggle ammunition in
to the Indian country, by Lieut.. Rogers
at the Dalles, who took from their boat
1900 pounds of balls, 1000 pounds o
] powder and 8 boxes of muskets. Mysel
and the remaining two brethren Of ou