The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-21

an overtiowing heart, returned pro-
found thanks to God for His wonder.
ful care over her, in bringing her, con-
trary to every human prediction,
through broad deserts and the toll
some, hazardous journeyings of seven
long months; for His constantly pro-
viding hand and oft-repeated deliver.
ance when in manifold perils; and
now He had brought her over the last
chain of mountains, and her eye actu-
ally rested upon the country some
where in which she would seek home
for life, where To point the red man in
that "Book from Heaven" TO the Lamb
of God who had also died for him.
That evening, rs we were about to
camp on the Umatilla, an express from
the Fort met us with sea-bread and
other food, and the relish with which
we surveyed our supper that night
can be realized by those only who have
been compelled To do without bread
for months, and live on game and
some of the time on scant allowance
Cd the poorest of buffalo meat.
Passing through the beautiful plains
between the UmaElla and the Walla
Walla rivers, we met with vast bands
of horses belonging to the Cayuse and
Walla Wana I1dians, Sometimes
1000 in herd would be lingering
around the living springs of water,
rolling fat and of all colors. In
very few years these great bands of
horses we're joined upon the endless
prairies with small herds of CATTLE
But where are those numerous bands
of cattle and those horses now? and
where the nations that owned them
Where? For eleven years the martyr
Whitman, with his heroic wife, was
their devoted and successful teacher,
causing their ever before uncultivated
country TO bud and blossom with fields
of wheat and corn, with orchards,
herds, mills, schools, happiness aud
plenty. Bu< another set of religion
lists came, and, taking advantage of n
fell disease, and with the aid of inn
ported agents, persuaded the simple
hearted Cayuse to destroy their Amer
lean teacher and the Americans on
this coast, and to accept their ''holy
tobacco their beads and themselves
as the only teachers to lead them in
the straight road" to heaven. They
listened-tbe tomahawk was buried
in their teacher head. Their ''father"
and their best friend fell. His deyo-
ted wife followed that night, the cold
earth her dying pillow, the cold earth
her dying curtains, her own blood her
winding-sheet. The Americans at the
post were butchcred for eight days,
their wives and daughters made cap
tiyes and subjected to brutality worse
than death; their new teachers riding
among them to encourage them. Nor
did they stop To wait till the last
American was butchcrcd, and even be-
fore the slain bodies were buried, did
these new teachers commence their
holy missionary (D work by baptizing
their new blood-stained converts, tom
ahawk in hand The last Protestant
Mission, the last American settlement
east of the Cascades was broken up,
and the last American driven from the
country. And but for the Protestant
ez Perces Indians, who took their
lives into their hands, the last Ameri-
can family in the Willamette Valley
would have been butchercd.
But where are those tomahawk
teachers to-day? and where that once
wealthy Cayuse nation, and where
their great herds Of beautiful horses,
and where their beautiful country p
The deluded CayHsc nation arc gone ::
their bands of horses arc gone their
much-loyed country-the home and
playground of their fathers for ages
unknown-is in the hands of another
race, even the same Americans ther
were put up TO cxterminate. And
these new teachers: Oh, We heavens
above shroud, your blue canopy in
darkness, and yOn earth beneath with
hold your strength from these hypo-
critical monsters ! To-day they are
clothed in silk and rolling in wealth
through the rich prairies Of the lost
countries Of their deceived victims
They own rich homes-the choice Sc
lections in all that vast country to the
Rocky Mountains and even during
the twelve years the American Mis-
sionary was forbid by Government to
abide in that country east of the Cas-
cades, these black-robed tomahawk
teachers were selecting choice homes
(so-called mission stations) all through
that country, having reference to fur
ther settlements and probable gold
mines, unmolested by the Indians and
unrebuked by the same Government
which refused to let its own American
missionaries go into that same coun-