Marcus Whitman. will be unveiled in the Capitol rotunda. I regret that my absence from the Senate on official business on that day will prevent my attendance at the ceremony. but I should like to pay a brief tribute at this time to the memory of this great American. who played such a prominent and important part in the founding and settlement of the Northwest. It was Marcus Whitman who in the year 1836 opened the way to the tide of immigration into the Territory which is now the State of Oregon. It was this courageous missionary who first recognized the value of the Oregon Territory to the United States. and who almost singlehandedly frustrated British plans for colonization of the area. Marcus Whitman can truly be called the father of the State of Oregon. for it was because of his leadership that thousands of settlers made the long trek into the valley of the Columbia.
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