Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 13Oregon Historical Society., 1912 - Northwest, Pacific |
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Page 166 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Page 129 - We, the people of Oregon Territory, for purposes of mutual protection, and to secure peace and prosperity among ourselves, agree to adopt the following laws and regulations until such time as the United States of America extend their jurisdiction over us.
Page 123 - No^ person shall be entitled to hold such a claim upon city or town lots, extensive water privileges, or other situations necessary for the transaction of mercantile or manufacturing operations...
Page 302 - This is our pride and our danger, our weakness and our strength. Little does he deserve to be intrusted with the liberties of this people, who does not raise his mind to these truths.
Page 187 - ... cordage, paints, oils, chains and chain cable, anchors, &c., to refit the company's ships that remain on the coast. These are the ship Nereide, the brig Llama, the schooner Cadborough, and sloop Broughton; the steamboat Beaver, of 150 tons, two engines of thirty horse power each, built in London last year.
Page 352 - Your memorialists would further call the attention of your honorable body to the fact that, as citizens of the United States, we labor under the greatest commercial disadvantages. We have neither ships of war nor of commerce, nor any navigation of the rivers of the interior, and for want of adequate protection, no private capitalist among us can establish a successful competition with a wealthy and powerful monopoly, possessing all the appliances of commerce, and all the influence over the natives...
Page 294 - The road on this hill is something terrible. It is worn down into the soil from five to seven feet, leaving steep banks on both sides, and so narrow that it is almost impossible to walk alongside of the cattle for any distance without leaning against the oxen. The emigrants cut down a small tree about ten inches in diameter and about forty feet long, and the more limbs it has on the better. This tree they fastened to the rear axle with chains or ropes, top end foremost, making an excellent brake.
Page 331 - He is ardent, persevering, industrious, and temperate, of great activity and quickness of perception, and rapidity of utterance ; as a politician, too theorizing, speculative, and metaphysical, — magnificent in his views of the powers and capacities of the government, and of the virtue, intelligence, and wisdom of the people. He is in favor of elevating, cherishing, and increasing all the institutions of the government, and of a vigorous and energetic administration of it. From his rapidity of...
Page 180 - to obtain some specific and authentic information in regard to the inhabitants of the country in the neighborhood of the Oregon or Columbia river, and generally all such information in that region, political, physical, statistical, and geographical, as might prove useful or interesting to this government.
Page 146 - That a committee be appointed to take into consideration the propriety of taking measures for the civil and military protection of this colony.