"In what I have said about Dr. McLoughlin, I have not spoken from interested motives. I never received any favor at his hands, nor do I expect to. But I am ashamed of the course of our Delegate; I think it is unbecoming the Representative of a magnanimous people. "What must be the feelings of Dr. McLoughlin? A man whose head is whitened by the frosts of perhaps eighty winters! Who, during that long period has been living subject to the nation under whose flag he was born. And who, at that advanced age declares his intention of becoming a citizen of our great Republic.--I say what must be his feelings? and what must be the feelings of all candid men--of all men of honor and magnanimity, who have read Mr. Thurston's letter. And yet this same Honorable (?) Delegate in his address to his constituents lectures us upon Religion and Morality. "Very respectfully, yours, "WM. J. BERRY." DOCUMENT N _Excerpts from speech of Samuel R. Thurston in Congress, December 26, 1850._ December 26, 1850, Thurston attempted to answer, by a speech in Congress, Dr. McLoughlin's letter, published in the _Oregon Spectator_, September 12, 1850. It is a scurrilous speech. Most of its asserted statements of fact are untrue. It is too long to be set forth here in full. It will be found at pages 36 to 45 of the Appendix to volume 23 of the _Congressional Globe_. The italics in this Document N are those appearing in the _Congressional Globe_. He first discussed the petition of the fifty-six persons who signed the petition at Oregon City, September 19, 1850, against the passage of the eleventh section of the Donation Land Bill, and attempted to show that the petition was against Dr. McLoughlin instead of being in his favor. This was pettifogging. Thurston set forth that he had not been in favor of recognizing in the bill transfers of land by Dr. McLoughlin after March 3, 1849, for the reason that "If such transfers were confirmed in general terms, up to the passage of the bill, the whole of what the Doctor claimed would be covered by fictitious transfers for his benefit." Thurston attacked J. Quinn Thornton and Aaron E. Wait, the attorneys of Dr. McLoughlin, and called them names too vile to be inserted in this address.