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 _Great Wrong_ 663

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