may 29, 1848 - Special Message to Congress urging immediate action on Oregon. Recounts messages that Indians had recently “raised ‘the war whoop and crimsoned their tomahawks in the blood of their citizens;’ that they apprehend that ‘many of the powerful tribes inhabiting the upper valley of the Columbia have formed an alliance for the purpose of carrying on hostilities against their settlements;’ that the number of the white population is far inferior to that of the savages." Calls for establishing a Territorial Govmnt
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may 29, 1848
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