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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 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- 76 Um; ypt thoflp very ppoplo, the objpctH of BO much Bolicitudo were alone eoncemeH 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 liveipernatural 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 tumei- 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)mpftny'fl servants to endeavor to prevent furtlicr evil. Accompanying you will re«'eive a copy of a letter which I an, 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 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, 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