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Rh the country to stifle the efforts at settlement. In 1845 he sent an express to Fort Hall, eight hundred miles, to warn the American emigrants that if they attempted to come to Willamette they would all be cut off; they went, and none were cut off… I was instructed by my legislature to ask donations of land to American citizens only. The memorial of the Oregon legislature was reported so as to ask donations to settlers, and the word was stricken out, and citizens inserted. This, sir, I consider fully bears me out in insisting that our public lands shall not be thrown into the hands of foreigners, who will not become citizens, and who sympathize with us with crocodile tears only. … I can refer you to the supreme judge of our territory for proof that this Dr McLoughlin refuses to file his intention to become an American citizen. If a foreigner would bona fide file his intentions I would not object to give him land. There are many Englishmen, members of the Hudson's