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Rh hold their slaves in Oregon, but the bill did not pass. Incidental to the canvass in June, 1854, it may be mentioned that the whigs carried Washington, then including what is now Multnomah County, by an average majority of sixty. David Logan, whig, was elected to the legislature by a vote of six hundred and forty-eight to five hundred and ninety-two for D. H. Belknap, democrat. There were cast in the City of Portland at that election three hundred and five votes for Logan and two hundred and twenty-six for Belknap. Mr. Josiah Failing was mayor of Portland. The proposition to hold a convention to form a constitution was defeated by a vote of three thousand two hundred and ten for, to four thousand and seventy-nine against it. P.P. Prim was elected Prosecuting Attorney in the first district, R. P. Boise in the second, and Noah Huber in the third district.

Some time in the fall of 1853 O. B. McFadden was appointed an Associate Justice in Oregon upon the ground, as it was alleged, that in the commission of Judge Deady he was named Mordecai P. Deady instead of Matthew P. Deady. This, however, was soon rectified by a new commission in which he was correctly named, and Judge McFadden was transferred as a judge to the Territory of Washington. James A. Burnett was Territorial Auditor, Nathan H. Lane Treasurer, and Milton Shannon Librarian. John B. Preston was removed in 1853 from the office of Surveyor-General, and Colonel Gardner appointed in his place. It was in this year that the Indian outbreak occurred in Southern Oregon.

In June, 1855, an election was held for delegate to congress and members of the legislative assembly. Gen. Joseph Lane was the candidate of the democrats, Gov. John P. Gaines of the whig party. General Lane had the advantage of General Gaines in several respects. The democratic party was in the ascendant in the