Their continuance in employment depended upon the defeat of the assumptions of the United States. They not only demanded the claim of 540 40. but contended for the line of the Columbia. and would probably have included Oregon proper had it been in their power. Remote as were the few emigrants in this region from their mother land. they yet warmly espoused the cause of the United States. They had lost none of their nationality. The inhospitable wilderness that lay between them and their former homes served but to strengthen their attachment to the institutions under which they had grown up.
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