positions they could fill more successfully than he could him-

self. This spirit of "in honor preferring one another" he began on the way to On-iron hy resigning the captaincy, to which he had hern elect ed. so that the company could be di- vided and the "cow column" of loose cattle move forward separate froin the family wagons and the patient work oxen have a better chance to feed. This was for the general food on he way. There, perhaps, never was a community interest fstablished as a governing power in which better fitted men were given the places than during the period of the Pro- visional (iovernment of Oregon, continuing so until it was superseded.

In two particulars P. H. Burnett was not sustained by those coming later: First, the law to discourage ne- Ofl from coining or being brought to Oregon. Second, the law forbidding the manufacture and sale of ardent spirit*. It is to the honor of the citizenship of Oregon that no man has ever been molested on account of his race.

In drafting this law forbidding negroes and mulattoes com- inir to or settling in Oregon the lion. P. II. Burnett was repre- senting a class rarely considered in legislation the mother- hood of. the southwestern frontier. I remember distinctly <'aptain Morrison saying, In Oregon there will be no slaves and we'll all start even," on hearing Mrs. Morrison say that the only living creature of which she ever felt fear was a fugi- tive slave. Mrs. Morrison at the time she said that was the most complete embodiment of the gentleness of womanhood and tl oiiraue of manhood I have ever seen in one personality. P. H. Burnett in his law, which yet remains, though never used, represented the just fears of girlhood and womanhood of slaves fleeing for life and liberty. His being a true repre- sentative of the Oregon pioneers was clearly demonstrated by their votes even as late as 1862 when General Lane retired from his hii_ r h estate as a public man and representative of Oregon. At the election of 1862 only one man known to sympathize with slavery and secession was elected.

The Applegate brothers, next to Burnett, claim attention for effectiveness in Americanizing Oregon. The Hon. Jesse