CHAPTER XVII.

OREGON BECOMES A STATE. 1856-1859.

LEGISLATURE OF 1855-6 MEASURES AND MEMORIALS LEGISLATURE or 1856- 7 No SLAVERY IN FREE TERRITORY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION ELEC TION RESULTS DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING ADMISSION DELEGATE TO CONGRESS CAMPAIGN JOURNALISM CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT QUESTION OF SLAVERY No BLACK MEN, BOND OR FREE ADOP TION OF A STATE CONSTITUTION LEGISLATURE OF 1857-8 STATE AND TERRITORIAL BODIES PASSENGER SERVICE LEGISLATURES OF 1858-9 ADMISSION INTO THE UNION.

DURING these days Oregon was somewhat soured over the Indian question, and toward the United States generally. The savages should have been more quickly and cheaply killed; the regulars could not fight Indians; the postal service was a swindle and a dis grace; land matters they could manage more to their satisfaction themselves; better become a state and be independent. There was even some feeling between northern and southern Oregon ; the former had labored and the latter had suffered, and both were a little sore over it.

About all the legislature of 18 55-6 1 did was to move

counciltnen elect were, for Multnomah, A. P. Dennison; Clackaraas and Wasco, J. K. Kelly; Yamhill and Clatsop, John Richardson; Polk and Tillamook, J. M. Fulkerson; Marion, J. C. Peebles; Linn, Charles Drain; Umpqua, Douglas, and Coos, H. D. O Bryant, democrats; and A. A. Smith of Lane and Benton, and E. H. Cleaveland of Jackson, whigs. Assembly men, for Clatsop, Philo Callender; Wasco, N. H. Gates; Columbia, John Harris; Multnomah, G. W. Brown; Washington, H. Jackson; Clackamas, O. Risley, H. A. Straight, James Officer; Marion, L. F. Grover, William Har- pole, J. M. Harrison; Yamhill, A. R. Burbank, Andrew Shuck; Polk, Fred. Waymire, R. P. Boise"; Linn, Delazon Smith, H. L. Brown, B. P. Grant;

Benton, John Robinson, H. C. Buckingham; Lane, Isaac R. Moores, A.

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