The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-11
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On Friday, November 5th the Executive B0arc
Of the Pioneer and Historical Society met in As
toria, Nice-President J. II. ID. Gray i'm the chair
Members presently. II. Gray, 4. Van Dusen
f. G. Holden and :. T. Mexican.
The Corresponding Secretary presented a com
munication from Rev J. II. Hopkins, d. D.,
NilliamSport, Pa, embodying "a design for th
proposed monument 10 Dr. Whitman, which wa
read and after due consideration unanimously az
proved and adopted by the Board, and the Core.
spending Secretary was instructed 10 extend IN
thanks Of the Society TO Or. Hopkins for the sam,
A. there has been some difference Of opinion
regard to where the proposed monument Shout
be located, some claiming that it should De
Wala Nalla, instead Of on the ground where IL
massacre occurred the following was unanimousl
adopted, with view To settling the matter:
Rsore That 90 is the sentiment or this Board that
proper place FOR the monument il, a. the scene ~ tl ma
~acre, ON the ground donated society for that u
pose, and already partially improved by this Sociefv
The Corresponding Secretary presented "a Iarp.
number of communications which were read am
placed on file
Mrs. Arnold, the only surviving sister of Cen
eral "Stonewall" Jackson, now lives at Buckban-
non, West Virginia. She was throughout the
war faithful Unionist, although every member
of her family except one-a young nephew-was
a secessionist For her brother she entertarns the
reverence of an undying love and affection and
she insists that it was with extreme reluctance
and profound misgiving that he took up arms
against his country. He declared that he would
never 20 outside of Virginia to fight He voted
against the ordinance of secession in old Virginia
and urged his sister to use her influence to keep
West Virginia fast to the Union. \ profoundly re-
lgious man, he was wont to say, even after he had
taken up the sword: "If we are right. God will
prosper Us; if we are wrong God will DESTROY rs >,
Yet his sister is denied the ballot, while nearly
every member Of the confederacy is reconstructed
and made a sovereign. Thus are faithful Union
women rewarded
Mr. NJ. II. Abbott, of the Baker CITY Percjye
who has been most uncompromising opnonent
OF Woman Suffrage for the past decade. has evil
IDENTIFY been giving the question something more
than superficial study of late, for the last number
OF his paper contained the following: ,.NVa have
about made up our mind that women sbouId ha
ehirahchised The mothers, wives and daugbtars
oi America are certainly rs intelligent as two
lhlruS oi 1hoSe who vote nOw-a-davs.u We vol
come our new ally, and in the course of time trrst
th"V ne VIII do good service in promotino tts
cause he has helped to retard We do NOT Wis. -.
oe oihclous, but we hope he will occasionally, ,.
word for women to his Democratic bretbro, ~
,l'e jacksonville Times and the Pendletop E,,st
Oregonian. @'s'
me United states Commissioners to Cbina l7
I'.,, '''e mouIheatlon OF the abrogation OF p
80 treaty have been kindly rscei
Ss 80 s'eauny III conference with Bao y
~ iiN'eIuehI oi the Board Of Civil Omce
'9''' 'o'iiefiy tutor to the last Emp