The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-11-23
For the state hlghts DenlosFats
LECTURES BY REV. II. h. SPAULDING
EARLY ID 1regOm NEtssfOns.--TheiK Inn.
pOrfnmcc in Securing the COun-
try Co Americans.
Nlnnrn rn1RrY-rouR.

As that bloody date, the fatal 2oth of No.
yemher, 1S4I, drew near, the clouds that had
been seen gathering in the horizon grew
thicker end darker. The officer at Walla
Walla had declared before two. witnesses that
If Spalding and Whitman did not leave, the
Indians would kill them, for the Fathers
would have those stations. Tomsncky fCay-
use chief one of the butchers, had offered,
at a meeting at Walla Walla called by the
Bishops, to kill the Doctor and give his sta
ton to them. The Bishop, of course, told
him not to do it Protestant Indians had
been offered $50 and Ave cows to leave the
Americans and join the Catholics. That
class of mountain men who were opposed to
civilizing the Indians and were given TO
that beastly amalgamation for which they
had left the civilized world, loft no stone eun-
turned 10 excite the Indians tn drive US of,
and succeeded in driving Mr.. Smith and wife
from their station, sending Messrs. Gray
and Rogers away, and bntehering DIR. and
Mrs. Whitman and one of these yagabonds
in English pay induced the Nez Perces
to throw me headlong out of my mill and
seize it and demand pay for the water and
wood.
Two weeks before the massacre some man
said to Col. Lee: II have got two mission
aries under my thumb, and all that can be
seen is the edges sticking out"
That kind hearted Catholic philanthropist,
Dr. Mclaughlin, had been removed from
Vancouver, and that shrewd Scotchman, Jas.
Douglass, put in his place. That warm
hearted Protestant, Mckinley, had been re-
moved from Walla Walla, and a bigotted
Papist put in charge, who told the Indians
war existed then between King George and
the ''BOseom men, and large hosts of the
former would be over soon. ''Who will you
ioin--,W hisnan and Spakhng, who have on
ly potatoes and books, or us who have blan-
kets, powder and tobacco ~ The Cayuses
would come up to the Doctors station and
& hold the scalp danceat uight. The far seeing
Doctor said 10 Vim. Geiger, of Forest Grove,
only two weeks before his death: This
will prove my scalp dance. :"
The long promised aid Of our Government
was still withheld. The venerable Lee, that
stern patriot, had committed an unpardona.
blesi and had lost his position for bringing
from California GOO head Of cattle, thus rem
dering the little American colony in the
Willamette independent of the British mo-
nopoIy. DrN hitman had committed NOR
tai sin against those women upon the Tiber
and the hames, by outhanking the great II.
B. leaders-Grant, Simpson and FOx-and
thus upsetting Webster's ''mess of Goldfish, -
By his hazardous journey in the winter to
Washington and successfully returning with
the great immigration of i43 through to Cal
ifornia Finally the Is Catholic priests and
one BishOp and one Vice General who had
just arrived at Walla Walla, proclaimed to
the Indians that the measles which was then
raging in the country. carrying off multi
tudes, was occasioned by poison Something
Should be done and DR.. Whitman AMI my
self proposed meeting with the priests, to
come TO an amicable understanding as 10 our
future Iabors. And to thisfend, taking nv
eldest daughter-now MrS. Warren Of this
place. then in her eleventh year-and leay-
ing Mrs. Spaulding and the other three
children, Mrs. SIS brother, now IN Walla
Walla, and Miss johnson, now near Salem,
/ left our dear ilome-little thinking it was
for the last time--0n the 18th Of Nov, and
arrived at Waiilatpu the 22d. Found the
Indians everywhere sick with the measles.
dying from enc to three daily; also found
some 50 immigrants stopping to winter on
account Of sickness or giye-out teams. Six
of the Doctors ten adopted children, and two
young men and one young woman, besides
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne (now my neighbors1
and theiFfive children, were alf sick in the
same house and needing constant care. In
addition to the almost superhuman labors Of
the Doctor and his angel wife at and about
the station, the Doctor was often called to
visit the sick at the distant camps of Indians
and at Fort Walla Walla. lie seldom sat
down to eat meal without being disturbed
by professional call, all Of. which was fast
understanding the Doctor $ constitution. One
has said .sHad the Indians waited a little
he would have died from over abundant la
bors.D He emphatically sought not his
own but all others good. /"
$ On my arrival, we called meeting Of the
Cayuse chiefs and told them that we would
sell out to the Catholics if they preferred
them as their teachers. Fourteen or fifteen
chiefs rejected the idea at once said we
could speak their language, had told them
the truth about corn and cattle, and they be-
Iieved our religion said only few of the
women and fools talked about killing, and
that they knew the sickness came not from us
but was sent by the Great Spirit. We must
not leave
The same week visited WalIa Walla, and
a conference was partly agreed upon with
the priests. They asked for and / cheerfulIy
agreed to furnish them all needed supplies
from my station. With the Bishop, the Vi
car and the priests bad an animated dis
cussion on changing the biscuit into God. +"
showed them plainly they must be deceiy-
eFs- er-caanibals: deeeivers if 1t was not the
real body Of Christ, and cannibals if it was
the real body, because they broke it up and
fed it to the people. l also called their at
tention to their Catholic "Iadders.n beauti-
fully printed and scattered among the In
dians, representing the Catholic as the only
Church leading to Heaven, and all Protest.
ants whitman and SpaIding's names on
that line ! starting from luther and LEADING
dewn to hell, filled with horned devils and
big fires, all graphically painted in eolors.
told them they would probably cause our
death and that Of our helpless families. |
little thought then that such an awful calam-
ity was SO near. I little thought then that
theee nenf who appeared SO gentlemanIy
and were as king food from my station, were
plotting my death and that of my associates
and our families.
On returning to the Doctors on Saturday
evening found him ready to start for the
Umatilla, - miles away, to visit sick In
dians, and 1Ie urged me to accompany him.
Leaving sister Whitman in tears, (she bad
seen too much of the Catholic, Lewis, who
In less than 48 hours sent ball through her
bosom, and my daughter in school. we
started about dusk, Dear sister. Whitman
companion Of my youth of our long journey
hither ! little thought then should behold
your smilin countenance no more In this
world 1t lained most Of the night, and the
darkness vas intense; bat we had a preci-
Gus time. / never found my brother more
spiritually y-lninded or more ready to depart.
He said our lives were IN danger, but that we
could not hpporably leave without permission
f lm the Beard or request Of the Indians.-
He said Mr. Lee had fallen clearly from his