Letter to General Lovejoy.--Call for men and ammunition.--
Yankama chief.--His speech.--Small supply of ammunition.--
Letter of Joseph Cadwallader.--Claim and a girl.--Combined
Indian tribes.--Ladies of Oregon.--Public meeting.--A noble
address.--Vote of thanks.--Address of the young ladies.--
Death of Colonel Gilliam.--His campaign.--Colonel Waters'
letter.--Doubtful position of Indians.--Number at Fort
Wallawalla.--Results of the war.--Jesuit letters.--Fathers
Hoikin and De Smet.--The Choctaws.--Indian confederacy.--Last
hope of the Indian.--Jesuit policy.--The Irish in the war of
the Rebellion.--Father Hecker.--Boasts of the Jesuits.--
Letter of Lieutenant Rogers.--Priests supply the Indians with
arms and ammunition.--Ammunition seized.--Oregon _Argus_.--
Discovery of gold.--No help for the Indian.--Withdrawal of
the Hudson's Bay Company to Vancouver.--The smooth-tongued
Jesuits yet remain.
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