7 44 THE CAYUSE WAR.

of them to the Indians ; and explained that what had been seized was the annual supply of the four mis- sions of Okanagan, Cceur d'Alene, Pend d'Oreille, and Flathead River. In answer to a remark of Lee, that much excitement and bad feeling against the Catholics existed, Accolti replied that he believed it, but that Lee must know that it was undeserved, and that the prejudices grew out of unjust suspicions and a grov- elling jealousy. 69

This answer, which contained some truth, was not altogether just to the Protestants, the more intelli- gent of whom were able to discriminate between fact and prejudice; nor was it calculated to soften the sec- tarian feeling, which culminated in December in a petition to the legisla are to expel the Catholics from the country, which w s refused. The quarrel ended by permitting them t: retain possession of their other missions, but denying them the Umatilla country, to which for a period of many years they did not return.

All the fighting ani marching of the Cayuse war was executed bv the colonists without aid from any source. The first intelligence which reached the out- side world of the massacre at Waiilatpu was received at the Sandwich Islands in February by the English bark Janet, Dring, master, which conveyed a letter from

69 Or Archives MS., 156-60. Father Accolti was born at Ban, in the kingdom of Naples in 1806. Educated at Rome, he became a member of the H m o ° je^uf June 1 1832. Having determined to devote his life to mis-

^ t^te to this coast &?^jfp*«* ^S Oregon by way of Cape Horn, in the ship V Indefatigable. His missionary labors in S reg o y n continued tilUSSl, during which time he >***W ££* mission of St Xavier and St Paul on the north side of the Columbia luver In 1851 he came to San Francisco, when he continued his missionary labors at LnL ClaTa Ld San Francisco. In 1853 he was sent , tc > Rome , o obtam nriests for missionary duty on this coast, and with those who were selected lie ^turned n 1855. Soon iter leaving Rome he was made pastor of Santa Clara College which position he held for 10 years. From Santa Clara lie v tslanSecUo San Francisco, where he was engaged in missionary duties up toTe "Si of his death, Nov. 7, 1878 Father AccolU ™ a man of learning and distinguished for his earnest piety S. F. Evening bu lleti , 7^1 1878 Rev? P. Veyret, another of the Jesuits who came out in "%£ duMa£t, from BrL, France, was born at Lyons in 8 2, and became a member of the faculty of Santa Clara College, where he died Jjec 19, 1879. San Jost Pioneer, Dec. 20, 1S79.