Henry Harmon Spalding

“ A pamphlet published by an agent from Europe, connected with the Hudson's Bay Company, who was on the ground during the bloody tragedy, and walked unharmed amid the slaughter, which lasted eight days, encouraging the savages, in which he says, “The massacre of Waiilatpu has not been committed by the Indians in hatred of the heretics. If Americans only have been killed, it is because the war has been declared by the Indians against the Americans only, and not against foreigners; and it was in their quality as American citizens and not as Protestants that the Indians killed them.” ”

“ And your memorialist feels the utmost assurance that the sacred regard for the truth of history ever entertained, and the high value ever placed upon unselfish patriotism by your honorable body, will lead you at once to see both the justice and the patriotism of his humble prayer. ”

“ And that there is abundant proof to show that the said Whitman massacre, and the long and expensive wars that followed, were commenced by the above-said British monopoly for the purpose of breaking up the American settlements and of regaining the territory, and that they were especially chagrined against the said Whitman as being the principal agent in disappointing their schemes. ”