The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-01-11
For the State Rights Democrat.
LECTURES BY REV. H. H. SPAULDING
Early Oregon HIlssiOns---Their Inn
pOrtance In Securing the Conn.
try TO Americans.
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lChief, and the one who met me, to Kill me J,
returned from the Umatilla, as stated
by ID. Young, and said the white chief
advised him to kill oil the Americans,
and he went up to the saw.mili and was
bringing down Mr.. and Mrs. Young, Mr.
and Mrs. Smith aud their families to
kill them, when Timothy, Ncz Perces
chief, and Eagle native christians, ar.
rived from Lapwai and prevented it by
saying no more Americans should be kill.
cd while they were alive. No more were
killed. There were now forty women and
children wrthing in tho hands Of the
bloody savages, and four Americans
Young, and his two remaining sons, and
Smith, from the saw.mill. Three sick
children died in the hands of the Indians
A child Of Mrs. Hayes aud two Of the
Doctors children aud Mr. Osborne and
family had reached Walla Walla.
The next day, while the brother of
Miss Bewley lay yet unburied at the
door, my child Eliza, looking out of the
door as she lay sick, aud seeing an Indi.
an ride up, leading horse, cried out,
"Oh there is Tashc-my horse; now /
know the Indians have killed my father
for they have got my horse" The Indi-
an came in, said he was sent TO take that
young woman. pointing to Miss Bewley.
over to Umatilla 10 be the wife of "Five
Crows" Cayuse Chief The horse he
brought for her to ride was my own, aud
was Eliza's riding horse, and recognized
by her as soon as she saw it. This horse
with three others, which / left in the
hands of Brouilette when met him aud
the Indian and fed for life, as the histo
ry will show, were found in his hands
still, by the Nez Perees chiefs james aud
Joseph, when | sent over for Eliza and
the horses after | reached my home. So
il seems that the horse that vas sent 20
take Miss Bewley over 10 the Umatilla,
to be subjected 70 the brutalities Of the
savage, was furnished BY the vicar Gener-
al Of the Jcsuits on this coast, and the
lpecting young girls all through this great
West, not for the same purposes, TO be
sure nor, but for the large aud flourish.
ing schools throughout the country, oil
which he is the head.
I. But We let the amiable sufferer speak
for herself as near as | can recolleet-
Her deposition was taken before Esq.
: Walling. then Of Oregon City, 1S4S.-
The document is in Portland
|, AFTER shaking with chill Of ague
aud while the fever was yet raging and
. my head aud bones in great pain, the In.
E dian started with me for the Jmatilla ia
D the afternoon rode Eliza Spalding's
D horse, which the Indian had brought for
8 me. This led US to suppose that the In
diaus had killed Mr. Spalding, somewhere
I: had no choice but had to submit tc
/ whatever the Indians directed. Al
!. though our fate as women aud girls, in the
! hands Of the savages who had murdered
our husbands, aud fathers aud brothers
Y was worse than death. still.when | took
!. my fellow sufferers by the hand to BID
e them farewell, the white women and chill
t dren, my heart seemed ready to burst witt
;. grief. / fell upon the dead body of ny
O dearest. dearest brother, yet unburied
o aud kissed his cold face all covered will
: his own blood Oh that dear face tha
G had ever been 80 precious 10 me-hov
o could leave it? | begged God to taxi
r my breath and let my cold body sleep b,
e the side of his. The poor white womeI
It and children stood weeping very loud
@ Even the Indian women seemed moved
c The Indians pulled me gently by the arm
a and pointed to the horse, and was oh
n liged to leave my dear brother lying colt
O and unburied, to see him no more.
e was weeping so hard | could not see an,
II could scarcely stand. The women AM
the Indians helped me along and helpe'
i. me ON the horse Only the day before M,
q brother was killed, he told me he woul,
), soon be able to walk and that lie woul,
leave in the night and find help to deliv
u er US from our sufferings. l told him b
n was too sick yet, aud besides If he al
n tempted such thing the Indians woul
u kill him. He said he cared nothing 70
his life, if he could only deliver me fror
b my sufferings. The Indians had abuse
" me before his eyes, but he dared not rails
l. his hand even if he had had the strength
and his groans Of anguish on my account
l. we're harder if possible than my own
e, He had seen me dragged out by the say
d ages and had become almost frantic, an
n declared he would try to deliver me if h
u died in the attempt. | had noticed il
is Stanfield and 10. Lewis listening to III
Of and think they overheard us, as wor
came from the Umatilla to kill my brotl
Or er and Mr. Sails, and | have always fe
n the Catholics were the cause.
d The Indian led my horse and as I rod
v away thought my heart would burs
r. with anguish. The idea of leaving m
r. dear brother unburied--the idea of turI
eel ing my back forever upon white people
il to see my mother no more; to be doome
le to suffer and live with the savages! Oh
re how begged God to send help or sen
ss DEATH" q af ss.{
j. That night this amiablc young sair
DO lay down upon the prairies with but on
d. blanket, tho frozen earth covered wit
Or snow, her night pillow; the dark HEAVIER
her curtains, her woes only growing darl
III or and thicker at every step. No mott
to er's hand or brothers to hold her achin
,e head or stay the quivering flesh th'
in seemed ready to fly off the bones, shall
d. ing so terribly with the cold and the agu
Id The Indian made fire, which, howeve
r lasted but q short time, and he was 500
asleep in his single blanket. But what
night for that dear angel; it seemed
is month, and yet she dreaded TO have
b. end. The snow came down, and til
70 chilling winds blew fercely. Has Go
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