The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-12
IN HoNoH OLE srEvENs.
Proposition to Erect Statue at wash
ington City.
Wsffa Walla Ifniou

ington City
Wella walla Union
In 1861 congress, by general enactment,
set aside the old hall of the House of Rep
resentatiyes i'll the national capital as q
statuary hall. TO which each state was i'm
vited to send statues, in bronze or marble,
of two persons of historic renown who had
been residents of it, aud who. by reason of
distinguished civic or military services. are
worthy of national commemoration. This
invitation he's been accepted by many of
the states. The writer recalls with great
pleasure his visit to the statuary hall and
the hours he passed there studying the
inanimate marble and bronze representa-
tons of the great men OF the nation whose
memory they perpetuated; how he Stood
with uncovered head. before the statue of
Lincoln and studied his long body and
rugged, sorrowfui face; how he noted the
familiar features OF Colonel Baker: how he
gazsd upon Ethan Alien. cast in the colos-
Sal mould, and paused before the other
counterfeit presentments of the great sons
of other states.
Washington should hasten to send to the
statuary hall a statue of one who was not
only distinguished resident of the state,
but one who attained q reputation in civic
General Isaac ingalls, Stevens. the first gov
ernor of the territory of Washington and
twice her delegate in congress.
General Stevens was bern in Andover,
Mass, March Is. 1918. He graduated at
West Point, at the head OF his class, in
1885, and was assigned to the engineers.
During the Mexican war he won the brewer
of captain at Cherubusco, of major at
~,,tt ~ofx 1<4
at the taking of the City of Mexico. In
March, 1858, he resigned his commission in
the army and was appointed governor of
the newly created territory OF Washington.
The same year he made an exploration of
a railroad route from st. Paul. Mimi, to
Puget sound. In 1915 he negotiated a
treaty with the combined Indian tribes of
Eastern Washington, assembled at Walla
Walla, by which the Indians reinquished
claim to more than 100000 square
miles of the richest land on the
globe. While he was absent in the fall of
1855. making treaty with the Blackfeet,
the disaffected Indians in Washington rose
against the whites. Hearing of this Cover
nor Stevens hastily returned, called out
thousand volunteers and waged SO fierce q
war that within the year the Indians were
the office of governor and was elected dele
gate in the fall of 1857. serving two terms.
While in congress he had his Indian treat
les ratified and the scrip he had issued to
pay volunteers in Washington assumed by
the general government. In. 1860 he was
chairman of the executive committee of the
Breckenridge wing of the Democracy, but
when the leaders of that party declared for
secession, he publicly denounced them and
urged Buchanan to remove Secretaries
Floyd and Thompson. When he heard of
the firing on Sumter he hastily left the
Pacific coast and, on reaching the East,
rendering his services to the government,
was made colonel of the 79sh New
York, the famous Highlanders. His
great valor soon gained him the
insignia of major general He was killed
at ChantIly while striving to check the
Confederates in their pursuit of the FEEDER.
ais after the defeat at Cenrerville. He led
the attack on foot, aud soon meeting a
whitening fire, the color sergeant fell and
the men !altered. Seeing this, he snatched
the flag from one of the color guard who
had taken it up and sprang forward, cry
ing, I'VE are ali Highlanders follow, High
landers; forward, my HighlandersW The
Highlanders responded TO this appeal and
ii was while sweeping forward that ball
struck him on the right temple, killing
him instantly. An hour afterwards, when
taken ND, his hands were cienched still
around the flagstaff.
No man ever resided In Washington who
achieved greater things in civil and mill
tary life for the state and nation than Isaac
Ingalls, Stevens. The state of Washington
shouId see that his memory is perpetuated
by statue placed in the statuary hall of
the national capital
First Unitarian church. Seventh street. be.
tween Union and Pike, Rev. Ernest C. Smith.
pastor. Sermon In the morning at II: Sunday