This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...Dr. Whitman arrived on his eastern journey, and boarded Weekly Astorian, Dec. 17, 1880 and Eells-Whitman Pamphlet, pp. 12, 13. Prof. Bourne tries to reject the testimony of Mr. Whitman because he was so young, thirteen years, when he came to Oregon. Does the Professor not expect boys of thirteen to remember what they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...Dr. Whitman arrived on his eastern journey, and boarded Weekly Astorian, Dec. 17, 1880 and Eells-Whitman Pamphlet, pp. 12, 13. Prof. Bourne tries to reject the testimony of Mr. Whitman because he was so young, thirteen years, when he came to Oregon. Does the Professor not expect boys of thirteen to remember what they have seen and heard? But he must remember that Perrin Whitman lived with his uncle untii he was seventeen and surely many of the Professor's students are only that age. Professor Bourne tries to reject the testimony of Perrin Whitman because he was too young, and of Dr. Silas Reed because he was too old; and of Dr. Whitman, who in 1847 was neither too old nor too young, because by that time he had changed his mind as to his purpose in going east! i. e., that Dr. Whitman did not know five years after he went east why he went so well as the Professor did fifty-seven years after. under the same roof with him at Dr. E. Hale's. He says: "The doctor was in great haste, and could not delay to talk of beaver and Indian goods, and wars, and reservations, and treaties. He had questions and not answers. Was the Ashburton treaty concluded? Did it cover the northwest? Where and what and whose did it leave Oregon? He was soon answered. Webster and Ashburton had signed that treaty on the 9th of August preceding. - Then instantly he had other questions for his St. Louis visitors. Was the Oregon question under discussion in congress? What opinions, projects or bills concerning it were being urged in senate and house? Would anything important be settled before the approaching adjournment on the fourth of March? Could he reach Washington before the adjournment? He must leave at once, and he went." Prof. Bourne (40) says that Dr. Barrows was living ...
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