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pmbittorinR party hatred amonR brpthron,
(liHHfniinutinK slanders the most vile and
al)H\ird a|{ainst the most virtuous charar-
ters: and shutting out from the |)o«r and
ignorant every avenue of truth. To pro-
mote his selfish purposes, he adds fuel to
the infernal firt»fl of fadion, and breathes
new fury into the flame. He is ever ready
with eant of patriotism; but his base hy-
poerisy is only assumed to make his tn-ach-
ery mon- sure of its aim. He is a ser- ,
pent stiiifiing the bosom of his eountry in I
which he has been warmed.

Of the wiekedm>s8 of deeeivinR the peo-
ple for party ends, we eannot speak loo
strongly- Hase aiul ignoble lut this is, there
ure many now in Oregon engaged in it; and
the ignoran(!e of the foreign and amalga-
nuited population who are subjects of it,
makes it an easy task, requiring no talent
whatever, uidess a false heart, and a traitors
tongue be a talent. Many of those ulien
voters can neither s[M>ak nor understand
our language. Some perhaps paupers,
some convicts or refugees from Justice,
gladly rejected by their native land, and
thrown recklessly upon ours. All these
without discrimination, aie fxrmittwJ to «'X-
ereise the same portion of Oregon sove-
reignty, as native Americans. I'ikju mat-
ters nK).^t deeply affecting the welfare of our
country, and recjuiring an accurate knowl-
edge of our affairs, the question is frequent-
ly decided for us, by their votes. Such for
instance, as the amendment of the oath of
office, and other equally imjjortant matters,
are left to the wise discretion of a host of
ignorant unlettered aliens, whose interest it
is to sustain the form of oath now existing.
Worse yet, some designing demagogue,
(whether foreign or domestic we cannot
tell,) has succeeiled in misleading some
true Americans upon tliis subject.

Lach year's experience as it lecords
itself in the history of our country, pioves
conclusively, to every reflecting mind, that,
as things now exist, the government of
Oregon, is every year becoming more ex-
tensively mature in corruption, and unless
we can find some h.eans to correct the evil,
it requires no prophetic eye to see that the
days of our voluntary government are num-
bered. The ballot box, which is the type
and outward representation of liberty, un-
less guarded, will become the avenue
through which anarchy and destruction will
come ujHjn us.

The results of our last election, in Tual-

tin Co., are decide<lly ominous of the most
fearful and pn-cipitatc anarchy. A gen-
tleman of tried ability and indu!)itable
character for stability and true devotion to
the interests of his country, and uncompro-
mising republican, a zealous a<ivocate of
National and Individual Rights, having
been the hononnl agent of a free and en-
lighteiuHJ people, to ward off l)ase subter-
fuges of foreign emissaries through almost
all the sessions of the legislative assemblies
of Oregon, has, by some uncalled for and
unaccountable turn of public sentiment,
(most unfortunately for Oregon,) been ex-
changed for an adherent to his llulinesa
the I'Ol'E of liOMK; and this too by a
nominally Kepui)lican and Protestant Con-
stituency. Hut this old Veteran of U«>
mocracy referred to, is now unambitiously
enjoying all the blessings of rural retire-
ment, at that peaceful retreat which his
own industry has constituted a happy and
comfortai)le home. I^ong may he live to
enjoy the happy con.'sciousiiess of having
faithfully served his country in a time when
such faith was most called for.

c. w c.

MRS. WHITMAN MASSACRKD UP-
ON THE KVIDKNCE OF AN
AMERICAN ! ! ! — ONE AMERI-
CAN SIlOOTINtJ ANOTHER.
Ac.

In the March No. of "The FrUmi," we
have the following letter:

Fort Vnncnuver, Oth />c., tS47.

S. N. Castle, Esq.,

Sir, — It is with feelings indescribably
painful that I hasten tt) conunuiiicate to you,
for the information of the Hoard of Mis-
sions, intelligence of a disastrous event
which lately occurred at the mi.ssionary nta-
tion of Waiilutpu. Our e.stimal)le friend
Ur. Whitman, his amiai)le and accomplish-
ed latly, and nine other men and youths in
the mis.sion employ, were murdered on the
2Uth ull., by the Cayuse Indians, .vith cir-
cumstances of the most revolting c. -Ity.
The lives of the women and children, with
the excei)tion of the lamented lady already
namitl, were spared. The mission being
situated in the Cayuse country, they had a
IH'culiar interest in protecting it from harm,
in gratitude for past favors and for the
blessings of religious instruction so assidu-
ously dis|MMised to them and to their fami-

Um; ypt thoflp very ppoplo, the objpctH of
BO much Bolicitudo were alone eonceme<l in
efTccting the deatniction of an establish-
mont founded solely for their lienefit. The
C'ayuse are the most treiwherous and un-
traetahle of all the Indian tril)(>H in this
country, and had on many former occasions
alarmed the inmates of the mission liy
their tumultuous proceedings and ferocious
threats; hut unfortunately these evidences
of a brutal disijosition were disregarded by
their admirable pastor, and servetl only to
arm him with a firmer resolution to do them
good. He hoped that time and instruction
would pHMluce a change of mind — a better
state of fwling towards the mission; and he
might have live<l to see his hopes realized
ha<l not the measles and dysentery, follow-
ing in the train of immigrants from the
I'nitetl States, ma<le frightful ravages this
year in the upper country, many Indians
having been carrieil off through the vio-
lence of the disease and others through
their own imprudence. The Cayuse In-
dians of VVaiilatpu being sufferers in this
general calamity, were incensed against
Dr. W hitman for not exerting his supposerl
H>ipernatural powers in saving their lives. —
They carried this absurdity beyond that
point of folly. Their superstitious minds
became possessetl with the horrible suspi-
cion that he Wiis giving poison to the sick,
instead of wholesome mediciites, with the
view of working the destruction of tiie
tribe, their former cruelty pro!)ably adding
strength to this sutpicion. Still some of the
more reflecting had confidence in Dr. Whit-
man's integrity, and it was agreed to test
the effects of the medicines he had fur-
nished on three of their jx'ople, one of
whom was said to be in perfect health. —
They unf(jrtunatcly died, and from that mo-
ment it was resolvinl to destroy the Mission.
It was imm«Hliately after burying the re-
mains of these three persons that they re-
paired to the mission and murdered every
man found there.

This happened about 2 o'clock in the af-
ternoon, the Indians arrived at the mission
one after another, with their arms hid un-
der their blankets. The doctor was at
schcol with the children, the otiiers were
cutting up an ox they had just killed. —
\\'hen the Indians .saw they were numerous
enough to effect their object, they fell upon
the poor victims, some with guns and others
wit!) hatchets, and their blood was soon
streaming on all sides. Some of the Indi-

ans tume<l their attention towards the dor-
tor; he n'eeiv(Hl a pistol shot in the breast
from one, and a blow on the head with a
hatchet from another. He had .-till strength
enough remaining to reach a sofa, where he
threw him.self down and expinnl. Mrs.
Whitman was <lraggcd from the garret, and
mercilessly butchered at the d(M»r. Mr.
Uog(?rs wiis shot after his life had Imh'h
grant^l to him; the women and children
were also going to be murdered, when a
voice was rai.sed to ask for m rcy in favor
of those whom they thought iiuiocent, and
their lives were sparetl. It is reporttni that
a kind of de|)ositiun made by a Mr. Rog-
ers infTcasiHl the fury of this savage mob.
Mr. Rogers was seized, was made to sit
down, and then told that his life would be
spared if he made a full discovery of Dr.
Whitman's sup|)os('(| treachery. That jM-r-
son then toll the Indians that the doctor in-
tended to [Ntison them, that one night, when
Mr. Spalding was at Waiilatpu, he heard
them say that tin; Indians ougtit to be |K>i-
soiied, in order that the Americans might
take pos.s<'ssion of their lands — that the
do(!tor wIsIumJ to poison them all at once,
but that Mr. Spalding advi.^ed him to do it
gradually. Mr. Itogers after this de|)osi-
tion was spared, but an Indian, who waa
not present, having seen him, fired at and
killcHl him. An American made a similar
deposition, adding that Mrs. W. was an ac-
complice, and she deserved death aa w«'ll jis
her husband. It app(>ars that he conclud-
etl by saying that he would take the side of
the Indians, and that he detet tvd the Ameri-
cans. An Indian then put a pistol into his
hand, and said to him, if you tell the truth,
you must prove it by shooting that young
American; and this wn-tched apostate
from his country fired upon the young man
shown to him, and laid him dead at his feet.
It was u|)on the evidence of that AmtTican
that Mrs. Wiiitman was murdered, or she
might have shared in the mercy extended
to the other females and children.

Such are the details as far as known of
that disastrous event and the causes which
led to it. Mr. Rogers' reportetl dei:«sition,
if correct, is unworthy of belief, having
been drawn from him by the fear of instant
death. The other .VmericAn who shed the
blood of his own friend must be a villain of
the darkest dye, and ought to suffer for his
aggravated crime.

On the 7th inst., Mr. Ogden procee<led
towards Walla Walla with a strong party

tlip (ioc-

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stronnth
where he
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villain of
ffer ftir his

proceeded
rong party

of the Ilud' .n's Bay (>)mpftny'fl servants
to endeavor to prevent furtlicr evil.

Accompanying you will re«'eive a copy
of a letter which I a<l<lre,«<sed to (lovernor
Aliermthy itiimetliutely after the arrival of
til" melancholy intelligciice at this place.

All that can be c«)llectcd will be consid-
ered imfK)rtaiit by the friends of doctor and
Mis. Whitman in the United States, who
will Ije an.\ioUH to learn every particul.i:
concerning their tragic fate. It will be a
siitisfaition for them to know that these
eiiiincMl servants of (Jod were faitliful in
their lives, though 've have to deplore the
nil lancholy circumstances which ai!compa-
tiicd their departure from this world of trial.

1 remain, Sir,

Your very ob't servant,

JAMKS DOl (iLAS.

Upon the above we feel eallwl on to
iiiuke some remarks, as also upon some oth-
er tcms of information bearing upon the
sani' -subject.

From our long acquaintance with, that
gentleman, we were not prepared to expect
such a report.

We have ever regardo<l the H. B. Co.'s
enterprises, as very much con.solidated by
Papid [)riests, but we were not prepared to
see so much evidence that gentlemen in the
high resiKHistb.lities of that Co. can hold
their places only as they con<luct everything
to the satisfaction of the Papists. If Prot-
estant gentlemen, even at the head of the
Co.'s op«'rations, cannot rejiort such dreadful
affairs, only as they studiously regard the lik-
ing of that /('// fmlrrinl;/, how long before
the conviction must every where be cstal)-
lished, that the H. II. B. Co. is in sonje way
or other papistically organized? True, we
Ivive been told that the Kni<Iish church ser-
vic- is re(piired by a standing regidation of
that Comjiany at their several posts. Thl.s
is true also in tiie colleges of I'lngland,
where that Homai.i.sm, in the form of Pusy-
i.siti, olitained a governing possession. If
we mistlike not, we were, soon after the
i;iassacre, told by one present when the let-
ter from Mr. McHean in charge at Walla
W.illa, was opened at Vancouver, that some
e\'l.uiiiitii)ns escaped Messrs. l)oug!a.s and
Ogden, on reading the awful contents, ex-
pressivf of the conviction that ii (tiffinun
in r(ii'.5i(>n, had done this awful deed; .such
for instanc<>, as one of thi'm raising his

hands, (when the other wn.i rrading a try-
ing part of the «lisclosure,) and rxclaiming,
"() (iod see what a difference in religion
will do" or wonls to such effect.

In ISU we wen' freipiently told at Van-
couver, that it was contrary to their princi-
ples, to justify any persons stopping in the
vicinity of the Irulian missions, imliss they
inrc utuhr l/if atnimiind aiiil ninlrol of those
»ii',s.s((»/,'.s. Hit it w(tH Hurc to /irotlucv a iliffirul-
ty iMlincu thf hidinnH aiiii lh( niitiKion, aiui
viry likrljf to mil in Hiriou.i rontKqiiriiCfx."
Tliis wius {'le rea.son given, why they would
not go into business relations with C. M.
Walker, who stoj)jMHl his family at the
iJali.s; and this lack of business opportu-
nity, wc supiKwed at the time, was the rea-
son why he had to leave that place.

Now Mr. Douglas was sufficiently ac-
((uainted with Indian character, to exiM'ct
just such results from such an opposition in
religious matters ujkju their superstitious
minds.

Now who can read the above letter with-
out stH'ing two things, —

1st. A .soul tenderly alive to the awful
tragedy he was narrating.

2d. Such a presentation of the whole
affair as to produce t!ie conviction, that
the causes (so far as foreign to the Cayu.se,)
were to l)e fouml in the mi.ssion itself and
the Americans?

True, the most of this was studied and
arranged at Walla Walla, and f<irwarded
aft«T con.sideraljle timt; for maturing it at
that place, to Vancouver as the biusis of the
whole matt<'r to be given to the w<»rld.

We cannot, however, but notic(> some
things given by Mr. Douglas u|)on his
own res|K)nsil)ility.

"Vet these very people, (the C'ayuse,)
the objects of so nmch solicitude were a-
ione concerned in effecting the destruction
of an establishment founded solelv for their
benefit."

Merc nlotie concerned in effecting, <tT. —
Now here is the most positive testimcmy
given, that none hut the Ciiyiixe were in any
way concerned in effecting the (h'st ruction t)f
tlie establishment, Ac. '1 he subject a<l-
tnits only of net/iitire testimony. When
best informed on the subject, he could only
say, "I do not know of others being con-
cerned in effecting, <Vc. I do not believe
or think any otliers were, i*tc.," init to give
imaiiive testimony tliat they itlnnc were con-
cerned in (ffeetinij, \-c., he cannot, and be-
fore a court, such an attempt would be t'se

Bource cf the RroatoBt ombnrraflBmont. It
would Bwm thai tliiH woh the fii-Ht plan hit
upon for clrarinn thi' KomaniHtH; but be-
fore he cIoeeH, it would Heen that (his had
been forgotten, and another expedient a-
dopted to prove that the HonianJHtH were
not the cause, by making the Aniericam
theniBelves the eauBC.

"The CayuBe are the moBt treaeheroUB
and untraetable of all the Indian trilxn in
this eountry." Mr. Ogden beant thiB tCBti-
niony of that people, when addresaing their
ehiefB on this Bame Bubject.

"It iB now thirty years we have been a-
mong you; during t.iis long period we have
never heard an inftanee of blood being
Bpilt until the inhuman maaBacrc which has
BO recently taken place."— Or<'(/<Mi Sj)ecta-
lor, J<m. 20, '4S.

Of how many tribes could Mr. Ogden or
Mr. Douglas bear such testimony?

"Mont vntrndahle of all the Indian
Irihfi!" Where is the tribe that had made
more improvement in civilization and re-
ligion, until nligiouB contradictions and
miBreprecentaticns, in the garb of holiest
sanctity at length, in an evil hour, finally
phrensii-d them? "The mission, says Mr.
Douglas, was situate Jn the Cayuse coun-
tr', they had a peculiar interest in protect-
ing it from harm." Did not Mr. Douglas
know that the interests of the Cayuse i^eo-
ple calle<l on them, so far as tliey could
judge from offers made them, to get rid of
that mission and accept of a new mis.sion
held up to them as every way more to their
interest and advantage? Indeed Mr. Doug-
las was the first man that gave us the as-
tounding information, on the 21st of Sep.
last, that the priests and Jesuits just arrived
from Europe, had the week before gone
up the river to establish a station at the U-
tilla (among the Cayuse,) another at the
Yankama, another at the Dalls, and, (if we
do not forget,) another at Sahaptin, a place
occupied by a part of Mr. Spalding's peo-
ple. We enquired "Mr. Douglas how did
you obtain this information?" "They told
me so themselves as they stopped to add to
their outfit on their way up," was the an-
swer. Now here was a cluster of stations
to be established upon the operations of Mr.
Spalding, and Dr. Whitman: and (as Mr.
Douglas' acquaintance with history must
have shown him,) designed at some rate or
other, to oust those long established en-
terprises.

For a month previous to tiiat time, Mr.

Douglas, as well as we, had had the oppor-
tunity of studying from the SjM'ctator of
Aug. 19, '47, the following most frightful
piece of information we have seen publish-
ed in Oregon; esiM-cialiy to those acquainted
with the objects and liistory of the Jesuits.

"Arrival of liinhop lilnncheU, —The ship
L'Etoik du Matin, (Moniiiig Star) Captain
Menes, live and a half months from Brest,
France, direct, arrived in the Columbia on
Saturda}' last, bringing as pa«sengers.
Bishop Blanchctt, five priests, three j«'su-
its, three lay brothers, two deacons and
seven nuns. No European intelligence of
importance."

Here was a vessel more fearfully equip-
cd against our institutions, civil and reli-
gious, than ten vessels would have been
armed and ammunitioned.

We knew the Jesuits never suffered
themselves to be known under that name,
until they regarded their objects so far ob-
tained as to make it advantageous to thriu',-
en their opixments. We knew this wis
particidarly their state, since having been
so many times banished from European
kingdoms, and the Pope having been com-
p<'lled to put down the order, and to wait until
the nations had become confiding (not ex-
pecting them again to come into operations,)
before he co\ild re-establish the order, and
send them as his emissaries through the earth
W'e knew that Bishop Blanchett had been
long acquainted in Oregon, and that in go-
ing to Europe, he had had, as did the bish-
op of Cincinnatti on the other side of the
mountains some years since, an opportunity
to make out and jM'rfeot a system of opera-
tions for this side of the mountains. We
had known from our first acquaintance in
Oregon nine years since, that our people
were generally not only sleeping on this
subject, but sloiping on a volcano; but not-
withstanding all this, we were astounded,
and almost struck dumb, (as doubtless in-
tended to strike the whole country,) to sec
from this announcement, that they regarded
the civil and religious possessions of the coun-
try so far accomplished, that they could
openly declare themselves, or suffer their
friends to declare them, JESUITS.

Now, as a Protestant of the church of
Scotland, so deservedly high in his reputa-
tion, and so well versed in the history of
his own church's struggles with that awful
power claiming infallibility in support of
her principles, which make it her declan-d
duty to persecute and extirpate the protes-

I thp oppor-
^IH'ctfttor of
38t frightful
een publish-
; acqimiiitod

the Jesuits.
',— The ship
tar) Capt:iin

from Hrest,

L'ohnnl)irt on

piiHsenners,

tliree jesu-
deacons und
iteUinenee of

irfuUy equip-
ivil and reli-
il have been

?ver suffered
T that name,
fts so far ob-
i>ous to Ihrtu'-
lew this wi 8
having been
am European
ng been com-
id to wait until
ding (not ex-
bo operations,)
hv order, and
mgli the earth
lett had bwn
id that in go-
. did the bish-
er side of the
,n opportunity
item of opera-
)untains. We
quaintance in
it our jaeople
iping on this
■ano; but not-
■re astounded,
doubtless in-
luntry,) to see
they regarded
IS of the eoun-
,t they could
ir suffer their

rs.

|the church of
in his reputa-
Jie history of
ith that awful
in support of
L her declared
ite the protes-

tants and all their pretended powen? wheth-
er HRnl or otiiirwise, and knowing the
force with which they had gone uiMtn that
jcroinid, and that they were «ipcnly permitt-
'\nti thcniJ'elves to be known as Jesuits, and
knowing tlie bloody nicans which their in-
fallibility liad ion(! ^illce unchangeably estab-
11- 111 (I, to be iiKed whenever and wherever
<|iiikness or power would a«liiiit of it.- wc
say how could o»ir much esteemed and long
pro" III friend, under such c ircumHtiince.x,
declare to the world, that he had gixcn in
that lett«T "lis fur as kiiiiwn, the causes
which led to that di^aftious ev«! t?" Does
he say that he needed direct and competent
testimony before he could speak? but had
he not their own testimony that they were
going with sufficient force and puri)ose to
cstatilisli four stations as al)Ove? and was
he not giving a mass of m.;st unreliable and
prolcssedly Indian testimony that bore most
prejudiiially against the Americans? Why
did he not (if he would give details as far
as known,) give the world the fact, that
Mr. Me Bean's letter also stated in sonje
form, that the Indians reported themselves
as .starting three parties, one to the saw-
mill, one to Mr. Spalding's station, and one
to Mr. Hinman's station at the Dalls, for
the avowed purpose of cutting off the fam-
ilies at those pla<'es? Was it not because
this would refle<'t, not upon Americans, but
upon Mr. McHean, a Roman Catholic, who
had written this information, and sent his
express right pa.st Mr. liinman and the oth-
er American families at that place, without
the least note of warning to them, as to the
Indian report contauied in the letter, that a
war [)arty was to be expected soon to cut
them off, or that tho station at U'aiilatpu
had been destroye<l? This having be(!n
hidden from Mr. Hinman, re8ulte<l in his
joining tha. express at his place, and com-
ing down to Vancouver with it, and being
jjiesent when the letter wa« opened, anr'
the .HOul-i)etrifying announcement read, that
a party was to perform for his station what
they had already performed for the Doctor's.

Two days before Mr. Douglas wrote this
letter for the Islands, it api)ear8 he wrote
one to (lov. Abernethy which appeared in
the Sfiectator of Dec. 'Jth, '47, in which we
•ind the following, —

"A copy of Mr. McBean's letter here-
witii, will give you all the particulars,
known to us, of this indescribably painful
event."

In publi.shing this copy of Mr. McBean's

letter, the Spectator gives no atmoimce-
ment of having garbh d this letter, and we
had su|)|KisiHi they published it in full, oh
they olitaineil it; but no account of tho
three parties apjM'ars in it

Mr. Ilinman en(|uir(Hi in the 2d No. of
the American, of those able to answe- to
the publir, as to the propriety of sending an
express pa.st hi.- sfjitiofi, without addressing
him a note announcing to him their danger
at his station; and also the propriety of
withholding from the public such parts of
Mr. MeBean's letter as spoke of the three
parties about to start for mas."<acreing tho
other stations. To satisfy oursi'lves that
there eould be no mistake as to Mr. Hin-
man's having heard correctly read from
that letter, that three parties were alnrnt
leaving on the awful business spi'cified, we
ciKjuired of our friend P. S. Ogden, l^].,
second in charge at Vancouver, who waH
present at the hrst reatiing of the letter, ua
to how he accounted for Mr. McB«'an'8
having written such inforn;ation in that let-
ter, without informing Mr. liinman of the
same thing by same express? He instant-
ly replied, "It was but an Indian rejiort at
the best" and that Mr. McBean had by
thih wise course saved the liv«s of his boats
crew as they went up, as an alarm at that
station would have nuide it impossible for
his boats' cn'w to have got by the Indiana
at that place: But Mr. Ogden sold amnui-
nition to the same Indians on the way up
with his boat, on the ground, as s|x-citied
in the Sptjctator by Mr. Douglas, that that
people were friendly. We however at this
time, only speak of this, as Mr. Ogden's con-
firmation of Mr. Hinman's declaration that
Ihat Utter diti contitin an account of three
parties Uing about to Uati' as siMcilUd u~
bove. — Ed.

[To he conlinuedl

To Correspondents, — \V. J , has

been r.'ceived and will appear in our next.
H. W. F. on Education, also in our next.
A Bachelor, and C. V\'. F. .soon.

A. Evans, on cn-eds, conHniud, probably al-
so in our ne.xt No.

We have received a long communication
from the al)le pen of our friend 1'. H. Bur-
nett, Esq., touching the ma.ssacre; some four
or five pages of which, we shall be happy
to give in our next, tho whole being too
long for one No.