Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-20

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The meE orial has forty. four sigma
tures, undoubtedly those of the entire
convention. As they are most all IA
mliiIr names T. the old settlers, | have
no doubt that you will be interested in
hearing them called over. Ii will recall
10 the recollection those who were
p-omlnent IN what concerned the puUlic
welfare III those early times, aEd ad-
monish the old settlers assembled here
today that they are but the remnants
OF a generation that has almost passed
and Is rapidly passing away. The sign
ers of the memorial are as follows, and
| thank any of those present to answer
as their names are called:
q. n. McConaha, q. A. Brooks,
dead, h. II. Winslow,
G. \. hathaway, A. + Scott,
A. Cook, A. A Denny,
w. N. Bell. q. b. Roberts, dead,
l.. NJ. collins, dead, l.. l. Davis, dead,
n. Stone, dead, ). ID. Cuddell,
g. ii. II lie, A. Is Dillinhough,
r. j. Allen, ID. 5. Maynard dead,
J. Il. jackson, dead, VIM. w. Plumb,
r. A. Clark, dead, Seth Catline. dead,
A. Wylie, dead, Q. 9. Terry. dead,
j. N. Low, dead, 5. Plomsuder, dead,
A. J. Summons, q. Drew. dead.
dead, II. A. .Goldsborough,
Nj. L. Simmons, II. G. Wilson,
dead, 3. 5. Ford, Sr., dead,
l.. B. Hastings, j. Fowler, dead,
dead, IL. ID. Huntington.
b. G. Armstrong, dead,
dead. A. Crawford, dead.
w. A. l.. McCorkIe, N. Ostrsnder,
G. Il. Porter. Z l.. Fenik,
III Miles, +. w. Crawford.
5. L. Moses, dead.
have endeAvored to account for thos
forty-four delegates who made tha first
movement for separate Territorial or
ganIZ alton, ard with the following re-
suit; twenty four of them are dead, SIX
ot them are unaccounted for, three of
them are living In other States. eleven
of them are still counted among our
most prominent aud useful citizens, of
whom three have answered to their
names and are present with Us today
G.. Ii. Hale, N. Ostrander and Henry
Miles. Ii the names of the entire pop
ulation 4 those times could be called
over aud accounted for. the result would
be the same. And perhaps not even one
IOuI NOhlu SILL .Auu,
for that matter, the same might be said
of any population of thirty two wears
ago. as that period covers more than the
average duration of human life. On
the 2Sth day of November, 1853, Isaac |.
Stevens, the first Governor of the Terri
tory, issued his proclamation tsee House
Journal, 1854, y. 1922 calling for tue cleo
ton of Delegate To Congress and mem
a q - 8 .,t
Legislature. designating the Both day of
January. 1854, As tue time of holding
said election, appointing judges thereof.
and designating the judicial districts of
the Territory, and appointing the times
and places of holding courts therein.
The apportlouBent of representatives.
in the Territorial Legislature Was based
upon q census IA ken by j Patton Andsr-
sou. the. first Uuited States ii trshal of
the Territory, IN the fail o! 1853. The
organized counties of the Territory were
then eight In number, namely: Island.
jefferson, King. Pierce, Fhurston, l. wis
and Clarke. The total white population
(Which, of course, included Old George
Bush and family AMI George Washing
tom Was 1865, ot which 1852 were voters,
\ little under half. Ihe leading couuty
in population vas Clarke, with ll4 in
habitants; next fhurston, with 956; third
Lewis, with GIG; fourth Pierce, with 5l3.
rhe lowest county on the list was Pac nc
with population nf lb2, and the next
10 it. King. with lI0.
The number of Indians in the Terri
tory at this time was esiim ated to be-
about ten thousand. divided nearly
equally by the Cascade range of mount
aims.
Tue first session of the Territorial
Legislature convened at Olympia on
February n. 1851. and was held in the
building now occupied as store By L.
Macleay & Co. From Gov. Stevens's
first message | learn that daring that
winter the Territory had been for six
weeks without communication with the
States. although In this interval, as he
saws, sailing vessels reached Seattle
from San Francisco. and brought to that
port information on the l2th sf January
which only reached the same place bv
mail more than SIX weeks subsequently"
This will give some idea Of the isolated
condition of those VIII were here at that
time. And vet, With this insignificant
popul alton. and in this isolated aud al
most inaccessible condition, the pioneers
seem TO have fnliy realized that they
were laying the foundation Of great
aud populoas State. la the opening of
this, ms first message to the Legisia-
tare, Governor stevens sums up his con
ce2ilon of tue future thai WAS then all
before us in the follo~lng enthusiastic
language:
Il coner ltulate yo1. fellow citizens.
on tue auspices under which our beanti-
fnI domain has been Organized into a
government of its ovn-the youngest of
the American ccnfederaey. The outpost
OF the Grea, northwest looking to the
Pacific and on Hudson's Bay, having
ths elements of great and varied
deyelopment, commerce. manufactures,
agriculture and the arts, IL has received
the name Of the Father of his Csuntry,
and has bad the impulse of its life at a
erua, era of American progress aud civ
llizAsion. Its name, lts geography, It's
magnificent waters are knoxn through
ga, the land. The emi2rant looks for
ward 90 IL as bis home, princeiy mer-
chants as the highway Of the trade Of
nations; statesmen and patriots as q
grand element of national strength and
national security. Our whole people
nave arisen In their strength and are
nos reducing TO subsection the vast VII
ierness between the two oceans. and
biading our people together vita iron
roads. The eagle of our countrys ma
iusty has winged his course to tue dis
lanl east. and Japan, China, Australia
aud Hindostfn viii be- brought into fra
ernai and muiual.y oeSenciai comma
MON with ns- In this great era Of the
worlds history. an era witch hereafter
xill be tne theme of epies and tne torch
of eloqus nee. We can play no SandAy
part ii 90 would. We nust necessarily
plsy a great part, II ve acs ~ all
Farther ON he ailadss 10 the suolecs
Of sransooutinentAi railroads, and u u