The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-11-17
LECTURES BY REV. h. Il. SPAULDING
Early Oregon 1LissiOns---Their Ina
pOFtanee In Securing the COnn-
try to Americans.

To the Citizens of Oregon:
The following lectures were delivered
in Walla Walla county, during last win
ter, to full houses of most attentive list
eners. Immediately after they began to
be published in the Walla Walla States
man, I received letters from Oregon and
Washington Territory, requesting copies
of the paper. This l could not furnish
On arriving in this lower country 1 have
been requested to publish in some jour
nal, aud Mr.. Abbott, the gentlemanly
editor of the STATE RIGHTs DEMOCRAT,
kindly offers his paper. II. II. s.
NUMBER ONE.
I appear before you. tonight, partly by
request, partly from desire to correct
grave aud widespread mistakes concern
ing the first settling of this coast by
American settlements, partly from wish
to defend the unsullied character of my
angel wife, now in Heaven, which has
been cruelty aud shamefully slandered-
first, BY the Cabinet of President Lincoln,
and finally by the Cabinet of President
johnson and his friends; partly to an
zwer the aft-repeated question, "What
good has missions done among Indians p
and partly from desire to lay before the
citizens of this coast the herculean and
hazardous labors of DR.. Whitman aud his
lady associates in securing this country
to his Government, and call their atten-
ton to the late strange conduct of that
same Government in counting the labors
of the good Doctor of no account, while
/ whore masters and notorious robbers are
richly rewarded in seizing the old Mis-.
sion at Lapwai, of thirty years residence
confirmed to one of these associates by
an act of Congress of August Il, 1848
ldriving the Missionary from his home
his orchard, mill-race, farm, school, church
and people, and the only Protestant In
dian Missionary and Mission in that larg,
feld-whiIe twenty-three Missionariel
and their helpers of the Catholic Church
and fifteen stations, are left unmolested
l have no controversy with any politi
cal party or with any church. / am her
tonight to detail facts as they have com,
under my observation or as / have re
j ceived them from good authority. I hav
no controversy with the Catholic Church
In that Church I have found some of tn
warmest and most substantial friends o
: my life. DR.. Mclaughlin, emphaticall
the father of the Catholic Church on thi
coast, was ever a most devoted and faith
ful friend to me and to our mission. /
Z father could not have done more for us 0
! taken deeper interest in our success
Messrs. Pambram, Toise, and others {
that Church. l would say the same {
the Methodist Church and of the Repul
: lican party; but I shall speak plainly {
b individuals and of events.
;, As events are opening on this Pacif
coast, it appears that in the progressiv
; development of human redemption, th
Ie great end of this created world, with i
d hidden and revealed wealth, the allwis
}, God had determined that these vast go
p land silver. mines, in and west of the Rock
Moaasains and throughout the Pacif
l. slope, for nearly six thousand years hi
z from the eyes of~mortals, should, in the
J. last day, be developed and given to Il
Z commercial world, and by Americs
" hands. And that this gigantic, tn
strange, wild, man. killing and withal sou
destroying work, should be accomphsht
y = and ready, in part to speed the char
i. wheel of human salvation, and In part
n meet the stupendous National Debt to
as incurred by our infant American Rcpu
T, lie in terrible war waged il behalf
human rights and the last command
}, Jesus Chsist, "go teach az nations )" al
u. against the combined despots of ear
r, who thought to lay 18th in the new ma
Id grave of our American Republic.
oI Butafor this end, this, then nnknow
!. = vazl fsm1se, dark NorthiKest coast, mi
;IIiii be traversea and settled by Americ
It. families and governed by American co
- merce and become live andshining pi
of of the American Union. But as n
ee countries are usually settled by front
to emigranrs at first, and as these were ct
of fined td.the Western States, and as I'll
n could not reaeh the Pacific coast via Ga
!. l.e Horn, with their indispensable herds a
mt family wagons, great emigrant wag
en- road must be had from the frontier set
ments to the Pacific shores; over the s