Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-23

BY order oil the town, with anxious quest,
And loosened from their wicker prisons, sought
In woods and fields the places they loved best,
Singing i1ud canticles, which many thought
Were satires To the authorities addressed,
While others, listening in green lanes, averre1
Such lovely music never had been heard.
-Longfellow.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN -
We, the members of the Newell Colony.
thank you heartily for the courtesy and
liberality you have shown u.s. Your kind
ness has made us forget that we came as
strangers. Escaped from the modern ten
ements of crowded cities, where weary
mothers weep and children moan," we
have found refuge, Il home among the
pioneers of western Washington.
On the 4th Of August, 1850, you dele
gated the members OF the Olympia Board
Of Trade TO meet our colony on board the
| Dakota and to escort us TO comfortable
quarters. "Do all you can for them, boys !.
Treat them kindly, you will find them de
serving people, SO shouted Captain Morse
DER the gunncl as we mounted the CONS
you had provided for w.. And right neigh
| borly You made us welcome in Olympia,
ay. and ''Wclcomc Home" it was. Most
| kindly and solictous was your care of
us, most delicate and respectful were your
visits, your presents and every attention
| that could suggest itself to q generous and
| thoughtful people. When we showed
| signs Of resllCSsness 10 acquit ourselves
rs appreciative working people, one of
your broad shOuldered, and broad hearted,
city fathers thought that I'VE might us well
nail it down for good to stay in Olympia,
so you had better take holiday" SAID
| the kind man; "look around the country,
! and have good time before you pitch in
| ~, 1,.,.i,,ncl A,.rn,lincr1x- I'D Slr,
| it down for good" and had holiday, a
picnic camp such as rarely falls to the
| lot of favored mOrtals Kind friends. YOU
must bear praise rs gracefully as you may,
| for we cannot, and would not, repress II
grateful memory. Under the happy aus.
pices of the impending Christmas days
suffer lis to consider the benefits of that
year, which marks new life to us-a life
born of human charity, and nursed on
| the breast of nature. This is freedom,
/ this is virtue, liberty, religion. Too well
do we cOloniSts remember the idiOtic
mockeries in the centres of so-called civil
ization. They provoked even one of Amer.
ica's greatest poets.
| Must 1t be Calvin and not Christ?
| Must it be AthanasiaB Creeds,
Or holy water, hooks and beads?'
So says Longfellow, and then turns
away from the so-called Christian Estab-
lishments, and utters genuine confession,
a truly Christian prayer:
II know that yonder Pharlsee
Thanks God that he ia not like me;
In my humiliation dressed,
only stand and beat my breast,
And pray for human charity
Since the statistics of any report are tedi-
| Gus reading, and "brevity is the soul of
w.t." we will sum up the facts of our report
us briefly rs possible, viz:
l. The lands of our colony are situat-
ed on the headwaters of Mill Creek, about
II miles from Olympia, in a direction
West by South. They consist of conven-
iently distributed up-lands and bottom
lands, as rich as the best in Chehalis Val
.. The colony has built miles of new
road, about 10 rods of new, massive, cedar
bridges, culvcrts and corduroy and has
opened the old Black Lake Road, dis
lance Of miles from Percival's road to
Rock Creek.
8. We have built 5 substantial log
houses, leach about 16x20 feet), containing
outfit for necessary comfort, viz: beds,
tables, cooking stove and utensils, ETC.
1. We have made new rail fences and
enclosed, cleared and partially cultivated
in all about 20 acres OF land which have
yielded hay and oats sufficient for our
stock, and enough of delicious potatoes
and garden truck for our own use.
5. We have built comfortable stables
for our stock and barns ample for such
crops us we can raise for another year or
two.
6. We have each and every man work.
OIL hi.
and hold certificates therefore from the
road supervisor appointed by the commits
sioncrs of Thurston county.
I. The S400 subscribed by the Olym..
plans toward our new road have been
faithfully applied according to the direc-
ton and under the stewardship of the
committee of management appointed by
the citizens of Olympia in public meeting
assembled.
The foregoing facts constitute the pith of
our report. We add our prospectus for the
coming year, and IN explanation of certain
side-issues, viz:
1. Some of the original members of
our colony deserted us after few months
of road work. What of that? We were
prepared for such contingency before we
left the east, in the belief, that, colony or
no colony, we should each and individual.
ly improve our condition by coming
to Puget Sound. Experience and facts
have justified our belief, because the few,
(Only two families) who deserted us, have
found, in the vicinity of OLYMPIA, useful
and profitable employment. They be-
lieved that they could do better than with
US, and paid for their belief by forfeiting
excellent homestead claims on which they
had led at the time of our filing. Now,
what does their deser,ion prove: Evil
IDENTIFY it is not our concern so much as
theirs. They resisted our persuasions,
would no longer share our labors nor con-
tribute to our expenses; and as we have
enough to do to mind our own business,
we had neither time nor occasion to shed
tears over their departure, merely because
they exercised the inalienable rights of
American citizens.
2. To offset the desertion Just men,
toned, the following persons have in
creased our number during the past year
viz.
From Brooklyn, New York, November,
1880, the wife and three children of JO-
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