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F. X. Matthieu - Willamette ValleyHow Oregon's Provisional Government was formed. |
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...Ettien Lucier. He was an old man, sixty years old, and had been in this country for a long while. He had settled in what is now East Portland in 1828, but wanting a more open country, had come up to French prairie. I lived with him all winter. We had many discussions about the government. He told me he thought the Americans would control the country south of the Columbia river. He was afraid if the Americans secured control they would...
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...tax him heavily because he was French. I told him what my old teacher had told me, -- that Americans believed in liberty, freedom and equality, and that all would be treated alike. I told him that in America there was no aristocracy except the aristocracy of character and intelligence. I told him how the English had treated the Sons of Liberty at Montreal. He asked me if it came to a question of siding with England or America, which side would I favor. I said, "I will stand by the United States every time, -- I will do everything I can to help the United States to secure control of the Oregon country." Many of the settlers on French prairie raised wheat. Among those who raised wheat on their places were Joseph Gervais, Etienne Gregoire, Andre La Chappelle, Baptiste DeGuire, who ran a ferry at what was later called Ray's Landing, Michael LaFramboise and many others. In those days beaver pelts... The Story of F.X. Matthieu - Start Page Excerpted from Oregon Folks by Fred Lockley (1927) Knickerbocker Press, New York Find it on your
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