A History of Oregon, 1792-1849: Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic InformationGray, W. H. (William Henry)
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A History of Oregon, 1792-1849: Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information
Gray, W. H. (William Henry)
Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon; Oregon Territory -- History
It will be remembered that Vicar-General Brouillet, of Wallawalla, in
his attempt to prove that the "Catholic stations and stationary priests"
were early in the country, says "almost every Indian tribe possessed
some Catholic members" as early as 1840, and that Mr. Demerse's labors
among the Cayuses in 1840 "had made there a mission so fruitful that
the Protestant missionaries had got alarmed and feared that all their
disciples would abandon them if he continued his mission among them."
(Page 87 of "Protestantism in Oregon," by Brouillet.) Neither Hines,
Richmond, nor Smith could understand why it was that the Indians upon
this coast and throughout the country were so different from the
accounts they had heard and read of them up to 1840. In June, 1853, had
either of those gentlemen picked up the New York _Freeman's Journal_,
they would have seen the statement that, as early as 1840, "almost every
Indian tribe [on this coast] possessed some Catholic members." A little
further along they would have been startled with the announcement, that
these Jesuit missions had become "so fruitful that the Protestant
missionaries had got alarmed and feared that all their disciples would
abandon them." This was but the work of two years,--from 1838, late in
the fall, to 1840. This was, without doubt, a great triumph, and well
does this Jesuit blow his trumpet; and well he may, for he had the
active aid of an unscrupulous monopoly who are said to be attempting the
same thing with just such implements upon their own countrymen in
British Columbia. Why, I ask, have states and countries in Europe found
it necessary to suppress that order of the Roman Church? And why is
England, to-day, hesitating to give this church in particular the same
confidence she does to all others?
CHAPTER XXXV.
Meetings to oppose organization.--Address of the
French-Canadians.--Criticisms on it by the author.--The
Jesuits.--Jesuit oath.--Article from the Cincinnati _Beacon_.
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