[The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Log School-House on the Columbia CHAPTER VII 36/38
The missionaries conjure the melons, to save their gardens.
They conjure you now, to get your furs." The evidence was conclusive to the Cayuse mind.
The missionaries were conjurers.
The council resolved that all the medicine-men in the country should be put to death, and among the first to perish should be Whitman, the conjurer. Such in effect was the result of the secret council or councils held around Wauelaptu. Whitman felt the change that had come over the disposition of the tribes, but he did not know what was hidden behind the dark curtain.
His great soul was full of patriotic fire, of love to all men, and zeal for the gospel. He was nothing to himself--the cause was everything.
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