Oliver Woodson Nixon

“ She sailed into Oregon after the traveling was good, and soon after found she had a mission, viz.: to teach ignorant Oregonians pioneer history. More vapid, more untruthful and unreliable history has never been more snappily told. Her pretended historic facts have been disproved and utterly annihilated again and again, and yet she dresses up her dolls stuffed with sawdust, and tries to palm them off as creatures of life. In my volume that she assails, "How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon," there is not a position that she assumes that is not disproved by facts of history that she utterly ignores. ”

“ Victor that many of the immigrants of 1843 did not know Whitman and "that he could not have induced them to immigrate" is all childish twaddle. No one has claimed that he did. But that to him more than to any other one man is due the National awakening no reasonable reader can doubt. The American people are honest end patriotic, and they only need to learn the real facts of history to do honor to the name of Whitman and his associate heroes and heroines. The world has always had its critics and doubters and groaners, and doubtless they will continue to do business at the old stands. ”

“ His constant advice was travel, travel, travel ; nothing else will take you to the end of your journey. His great authority as a physician saved as many ruinous delays; and it is no disparagement to others to say that to no other individual are the immigrants of 1843 so much indebted for the successful conclusion of their journey as to Dr. Marcus Whitman." There is more to the same import. Just read again Mrs. Victor's ridicule of "Whitman having anything to do with the great immigration in 1843, and then compare it with this plain statement of one of Oregon's most honored pioneer patriots. ”