Chapter XXXVIII: The Two Gibbets

Mementoes of the Horrid Butchery——A Nation’s Justice towards the
Strong, and its Tyranny over the Weak——Grant’s Humane Policy——
On Whom should the Blame Fall——The Answer——Witnesses Summoned
to Prove the White Man’s Perfidy——O. C. Applegate——His Record
of Bloody Deeds——Hon. J. W. Nesmith——His Intimate Acquaintance
with Indian Affairs——His Unequivocal Testimony——Dr. Wm. C.
McKay’s Testimony——General Harney Bears Witness to the
Indian’s Good Faith——The Indians Not the Aggressors in the
Oregon War——Testimony of Hon. Geo. E. Cole——Mutual Fear
resulting in Butchery——The Rogue River War——The Result——
Another Unimpeachable Witness, Gen. Joel Palmer——His Terrible
Arraignment of the Whites——Judge Steele——Ben Wright’s Plot to
Poison the Indians——Colonel Whiting——Forty-nine Indians
Butchered——A Tribute to Frontier Men——A Simple Remedy for the
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