Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-09

these words, WHICH Wclc puDiiShNN -.
the little frontier paper Of that time:
81 came to you over the trail OF many
moons from the setting sun. You were
the friends OF my fathers, who nave
all gone the long way l came with
an eve partly opened for more light
for my people, who sit In darkness.
20 back with both eyes closed. liow
can I 20 back blind to my blind people
who sit I'm darkness? l made my way !
TO YOU with strong arms through many
enemies and strange lands that might
carry back much to them. l go Dack
with both arms broken and empty
NV people sent me to get the white
mans book OF heaven. You look hhe
where you allow your women TO oance
os we do not ours. and the book was
not there. You took me where they
Worship the Great Spirit with candles
and the book was not there. iou
showed me the images OF the Goou
Spirit and pictures of the good lanu
beyond. but the book was not among
them to tell us the way. l am going
hacl, the long sad trail to my people
of the dark land. You make my ieet
heavy with gifts, and my moccasihs
will grow old in carrying them. yet the
hook is not among them. When tell
my poor blind people after one more
moon In the big council that diu hol
bring the book no word will be spoken
Inv our old men or by our young braves.
One by one they will rise up ana go
ont In silence. My people Will ole III
the darkness, and they will go on the
long nath to other hunting grounds.
No white man will go with them ana
no white mans book to make the way
nlain. | have no more words
whitman's Response to the GALL
It was the publication of these WORDS
copied I'm the eastern papers, that mace
Marcus Whitman heed the call OF lhe
Nez Perces Indians; 1t was the pupil,
cotion of these words that nerVed
Whitman TO consecrate all his HE u
giving the Flathead Indians the Whit'
mans "Book of Life" 1t was that re
eolva IN 90 in the name Of Christ to
the far northwest which made II posi-
h,e for Marcus Whitman to save Ore
gon to the Union.
Marcus Whitman did not go to th'
: hanks OF the Columbia TO save OreSo'
! for the Union He went to the north
,yost IN save the red men for Chrls'
, When God calls US to one sphere y
l. work he will always open for us othe
D spheres Of labor II We VIII oiiy ooe
A his first call. which says: Conle
Come, Come now"
e Rut Marcus Whitman was q s'ate'
5 man as well as a humble gospei mh
n sionary. Like Livingstone III Attic
Z ba saw how much could be done
that land by the resources OF ciVliiZ'
d ton. His prophetic gaze traveieu
u ti,.<,,gh the centuries, ana ne iV"eN
e 20 have that fair region under Chrlstia
y Influences and prospecting unuer u u
init, mans skill and industry. 4
couId hear the tramp of the oncomli
o. generations. as well as the creakli
" % his cart wheels by his side. liner
II fore. when Marcus Whitman on y
"a fomous Fourth Of July, 1885, Win
n Young bride, spread the blankets up'
" the ton OF the Rocky mountains, WI
70 Mount Hood and Mount Jeners
st standing afar off as guarding seh.ihe
"a and dedicated that western soil OF u
al and his native land, like Paul. lie -"
of surrounded by great cloud oi y"
ht masses In inspired vision he coI
nt GOO the farmers of 1904 planting th
I'm Goods in those valleys. He couid
RI those mighty forests changed II
ms homes and factories ana stores
ed libraries and schools and churcn
Of. 1e could hear the singing or the nlo
pir ing machines and see the while Wint
he shins like great sea gulls hoatihs
es. those harbors. And as Coiumpus "
NO nossession of the new world III
Ia romos Of Ferdinand and Isabella
ho ettod ont his small fleet, Marcus WI
,on man dedicated this western SOIL to
to two masters to his COD anu u
nit limited States government
oss Fought by Greed and seihshhe'
ON ue dedicated this western SOIL
the spite of the fact that all cou'u
for said TO discourage settlers hao D
to said in calumnious disparagemeht'
Ing Hudson Bay company wanted 1t
'ho, in the undisturbed possession Vi
the Wild animals whose skins they v
eed turning into gold. They wanted 1t
q nerpetual hunting ground. 1here
thev declared it to be land barred
cry imnassable ranges Of mountains,
hit. NJ undrainabfe morasses, pestiiei
ina. and moIarial. unfit for the residenc
,wn white men, land given up u u"
,ad. r,sm and Indian savagery. so per
ooL ont wore the falsehoods dissemlh
will nv these greedy, selfish capitalists
v,Id hefore Marcus Whitman's advent
ribe gon had been lying like the capstoi
bter the Jerusalem temple which the o
s21. ers rejected. but which afterwaro
dant came the chief OF the corner. All
Cen national statesmen, both trans anu
en-. Atlantic. cared no more for 1t IN
old pearl diver would care to carry ar
him. with him cobblestone, or diai
, far merchant would care to preserV
niger ordinary pebble among his pre-
the jewels. n.
four Why, so useiess was 'n ~
are region considered in 1912 that u
wart Webster, then premier of Pres
my Tylers cabinet, was willing 10 D
them off to Lord Ashburton the whole o
mur- far northwest for few privilege
I'm the American sailors to fish for CO
ores? the banks Of Newfoundland. A
what wears before this, to prove his
mans ignorance Of the intrinsic value o.
thou land of the northwest, Daniel we
ut up then the most powerful member Q
when United States senate, uncontroV
/ Bay by Clay and Calhoun and Benton
uying this astounding speech: "What q