Frances Fuller Victor

“ Whitman's journey East that was changed, and he was permitted to trade, as he did every year, going out to meet the immigrants, instead of drawing them off to his station, as the immigrants of 1843 complained that he did, causing them to travel eighty or ninety miles out of their route. Mr. Spalding is quoted as saying that "Immigrants by hundreds and thousands reached the mission wayworn, hungry, sick and destitute, but he cared for all. ”

“ Nothing more natural or true. As the mission station was the only residence of white people in Walla Walla Valley, every traveler, explorer, Government officer or other person who happened to be in the country was sure to visit it. Mrs. Whitman complains that they have to entertain so much without payment, the presence of the Hudson Bay Company prohibiting trade, and the mission property, besides, being owned by the A. B. F. M., by whom Dr. Whitman was appointed. ”

“ Aside from its influence on the Indians, the emigrants who are now crossing the Rocky Mountains in companies, containing sometimes hundreds of souls, will be in a most deplorable condition if they find in their new homes nothing better than heathenism or Romanism. Another object of Dr. Whitman's in making the above visit was to procure additional laborers. ”

“ This passage simply corroborates what has been charged by many of the pioneers—that an effort was made to secure to the mission the immigrants' stock or pay for the wintering of it. Daniel Waldo, another good authority, says in his vigorous style "Whitman lied like hell" in telling him his stock could not subsist on the road to and at The Dalles. "The first night out I found the finest grass I ever saw, and it was good every night. Several of the immigrants declare that Dr. Whitman and his nephew were fed for the most of the time he was with them out of the supplies of several families. ”

“ Whitman, whose health had suffered much for some time before the doctor left, spent the following winter at The Dalles with the resident missionary families at that station." P. 213.
Dr. White, in his "Ten Years in Oregon," says: "We reached The Dalles, some 220 miles from the Pacific, on the 24th (of November, 1842) , having been detained by wind, spent several days with the Methodist mission families, who welcomed us joyfully and made our stay agreeable and refreshing. Mrs. Whitman was here, having found if improper and unsafe to remain where she had been so lately grossly insulted," p. ”

“ The subject is, as he says, too large for discussion in a newspaper, but I will reply as briefly as I can, not with simple assertions, but with proofs which any one who will take the trouble can verify for himself. ”

“ Nixon quotes me as saying that "Dr. Whitman got well-to-do by selling flour and grain and vegetables to immigrants at high prices," and I object to his use of quotation points unless he constructs his sentences differently. However, I am shortly going to show that after the immigration to Oregon set in he did accumulate a snug property: but, first, I must object again to the manner in which Dr. Nixon mixes up dates. An instance of this kind of now you see it and now you don't see it history is too painfully confusing, as perhaps it is intended to be. The doctor quotes from a letter of Mrs. ”