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 ing dust and lying, even when, according to the N. Y. Independent of January, 1870, he said to a personal friend that "it is safe to assert that our country owes it to Dr. Whitman and his associate missionaries that all the territory west of the Rocky Mountains and south as far as the Columbia river, is not now owned by England and held by the Hudson's Bay Company." We can at least afford to wait and be charitable.

Is it not a fact that when a writer, as Mrs. Victor claims to be, "in the interest of truth," makes such mistakes, disposes of witnesses in so curious a way, and draws such strange conclusions as are shown in this article, it can not be claimed that her article has any great historical weight.