History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ed. The best answer to which is the factthat their unprovoked outbreak did not follow, but anticipatedthe presentation of these treaties to the Senate, the devilish im-I^atience of the savage to begin his work of outrage and slaugh-ter not ijermitting him to wait for so plausible an excuse. It is,to quote from Evans—and we most heartily endorse his views— a cruel slander to insinuate that the treaty or its stipulatiuuswere in any way intended to bring about the deplorable eventswhich follo
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ed. The best answer to which is the factthat their unprovoked outbreak did not follow, but anticipatedthe presentation of these treaties to the Senate, the devilish im-I^atience of the savage to begin his work of outrage and slaugh-ter not ijermitting him to wait for so plausible an excuse. It is,to quote from Evans—and we most heartily endorse his views— a cruel slander to insinuate that the treaty or its stipulatiuuswere in any way intended to bring about the deplorable eventswhich followed. The personal character of Governor Stevensand his evident leaning toward a lenient and most generousjjolicy in the interest of the native is a sufficient answer to allsuch accusations. And now the history of territorial Washington, strugglinglike a tired and, at times, almost overwhelmed swimmer, toreach the wished-for shore, is about to enter on many years ofsavage warfare—years during which its bloody tide ebbed andflowed by coast and forest; when the isolated settler was alike f* •^ A.
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