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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Isaac I. Stevens, Delegate From Washington Territory, on the Washington and Oregon War Claims: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 31, 1858
On Puget Sound we had extraordinary difficulties to contend with. The war first broke out by the murder of a settlement of twelve persons on White river, and under circumstances of great atrocity., The settlers became alarmed in consequence of the ?oating rumors that the Indians were bent on war, and had ?ed from their homes 'to the nearest town, 'seattle. The Indians who were their neighbors, went to, them at Seattle, and told them that the were 'need lessly alarmed, asked them to go back to, their claims, and assure them that if any danger should threaten them, they would give them timely warning. They returned back; but before the morning's sun had risen, the were all slaughtered in cold blood, and by the Indians who had invited them ack. Not men only were murdered, but helpless women and tender children. Two childrens with the mangled remains of their mother, were thrown to the bottom of a well. The Indians on that Sound exceeded the whites as five to two. It was time, our citizens should take up arms, and by energy and vigor en deaver to reduce to subjection the Indians engaged in this terrible massacre, and prevent the other tribes joiningthem. It was done, and I have yet to be convinced that it was not done rightly.
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