SECTION TWO
EDITORIAL
TOWN TOPICS
TWELVE PAGES
IN THE FIELD OF SPORTS
MARKETS, FINANCE
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PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1920.
SOULD I HAVE BEEN
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
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GOVERNOR
Great
- Emancipator Was Ten
dered Executiveship of Terri
tory but Mrs. Lincoln Objected
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(This to the twenty-fourth of pvrlea of rtl
Wes on One on n4 tu history, written for Tb
Bundiy imimil by J. B. Horner, profeaor of
history. Oreeon Acricultunl college, nod autaoi
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By JJ. B. Horner
In connection with John P. Gaines'
fcppointment as governor of Oregon,
two other men should be considered.
One is i Abraham Lincoln, the
greatest American of hia time. The
ether is Klntfcingf Pritchett,, the least
.known governor of Oregon. -In
fact -not one in a hundred Oregoni
ans now liyirlg ever heard of Kintz
lng Pritchett; and very few know
that the appointment of governor
'bad been offered to Abraham Lin-
coin. ( -I-"' .'. -:' ' '-- '")- "
To Klntzlng jpritchett belongs the dis
tinction of belig governor, of Oregotvfor
0 day. He was appointed secretary of
the territory by President Polk, upon Its
creation by congress, and served iii that
capacity until:, the resignaUon of Gov
ernor Joseph Lane on June 18, 185a
John P. Gaines bad been appointed gov.
emor, but did not arrive in Oregron until
August, taking the oath of office on the
18th of jthat rnbnth. During this interim
Mr. Pritchett served as governor.
In connectiofi with the appointment of
Governor Gaines it will be recalled that
the office wast first offered to Abraham
Lincoln, whose, term In congress had Just
expired, Mr. Lincoln had taken an ac
tive, part In the campaign which resulted
in Taylor's , election to the presidency,
and made a special trip to Washington
city to support his application for the
'appointment as commissioner of the gen
eral land office; but that position had
already been promised to-another. Pres
ident Taylor, however, offered to appoint
him governor f of Oregon territory, but
Mrs. Lincoln objected to going to a sec
tion so distant, and the offer waa de
clined, Jt is interesting to surmise what
the effect would have been on the his
tory of the i United States if Lincoln had
become g-overnor of Oregon territory. ;.
APPOINTED BY TAYLOR 1 q
. John P. Gaines received his appoint
ment fromi President Zachary Taylor,
and assumed i the duties of his office
. August 18, 1850. He served as governor
Of Oregon until May 16, 1853. In 1855 he
, was the Whig nominee for congress, but
was defeated by Joseph Lane. He died
at his home in Marion county, in : 1857,
aged 58 years." i
John' P. Gaines, was born in Augusta.
Va.. In ' September, 1795. removing to
; Boone county,; Kentucky, in early youth.
He volunteered in the War of 1812, being
In the battle of the. Thames and several
other engagements.- He was ; subse
quently sent .o congress from 1847 . to
1849. He was . elected major of the Ken-,
tucky cavalry,; and served in the Mexican
war until taken prisoner at Encarnacion.
After some months of captivity he es
caped, and,; Joining the army, served to
the end of the war. On his return from
Mexico Taylor appointed him governor
of' Oregon.-,: When his term expired he
retired upon a farm in Marlon county,
where he resided till his death in De-
:.. cember, 1857. i
COilTEST OVEE CAPITA1,
A bitter contest was waged against the
proposed removal of the territorial Capi
tal from Oregon City to some point far
ther south.! Governor Lane had by proc
lamation declared Oregon City to be the
capital, but the session of 1850 passed an
act locating' the seat of government at
Balenf. Governor Gaines refused to rec
ognize the .constitutionality of the act,
and was sustained by two of the supreme
- Judges, and while the judges remained at
Oregon City the legislature met in Salem.
On May- 14, 1S52, congress settled ' the
matter by confirming the act of the leg
islature. ; f ,
With the settlement of Southern Ore
gon came the demand for wagon road a
Being: at the head of tidewater naviga-
tion on the Umpqua river, Scottsburg
was, in 185J, he starting point for com
mercial operations with the interior, and
especially with the gold mines of North
ern California.' The originals Indian
trails were widened, temporary ferries
were established at crossings over the
Umpqua river and abrupt declivities
avoided, so .that a pack horse could carry
a load from the ship's side at Scottsburg
Into the northern edge of California. ; But
public spirited promoters soon saw;, the
necessity ef a suitable wagon way.
Through their influence, therefore, the
Oregon territorial legislature in 1852-3
waa ! induced j to memorialize congress,'
with the result that $120,000 was appro
priated from the national treasury for a
. military wagon road from Scottsburg to
Stewart Creefcs in, the Uogue River valley.
The route : for the road was surveyed
first by Lieutenant 'Withers, U. S. A.,
October, 1S54, and after a further appro
priation . the survey was completed by
Major Atwoodi U. S. A,", assisted by Jesse
Applegate. j The survey practically fol
lowed the old Southern Oregon trail. The
construction 4f the road was superin
tended by Crlonel Joseph Hooker, de
tailed by the' war department for that
purpose. The road was completed in
1858. The Southern Oregon military road
answered the 1 purposes of the people of
the Umpqua Valley until, the completion
of the railroad to Roseburg.
WHITES PARTLY TO BLAME
The Roeue River Indian war was the
second Indiaii war In Oregon, . it having
been preceded by the Cay use war, which
has already been mentioned. The causes
that led up to? wars with Indians may be
eummartzed is follows: First, the nat
ural objectio to. the invasion of the
whites and their conquest of the Indian
domains, and I trespass upon their hunt
ing and fishing rights. To the mission
ary and the trader, who laid no claim to
the country, the Indian never seriously
objected. (Second, the disregard of the
whites as to Indian rights and privileges.
The Indians were too often regarded as
Intruders, were forced from their .fa
vorite camping grounds and driver far
ther and farther back to the bleak, bar
ren and inferior places. Third, the In
ju.. a,rri that they would never be
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firmed by the delays of the government
i the execution of treaty agreement. ;
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