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We used to have a debating school, meeting once a week, which was an ex- ceedingly good institution, and many valuable lessons were learned from them. and we had a great deal of fun mixed with it. One of the boys had committed a long speech by Dr. Dick, from his work on astronomy, in which he rolled the world around in very fine shape This speech he used to make on almost every subject, in which he was chosen as one of the debaters, until one night Dr. Hall, happening to be in the debating school. was chosen as critic for the evening. When he made his criticism on the var- ious efforts, referring to this speech he said : "I like the part you stole the best. why didn't you go on and steal the rest ?" The laugh that followed this was the last of our future Copernicus's effort in delivering Dr. Dick's speech.
In 1865 W. B. Laswell W. T. Wright, J. B. Cox Jose DeVore, Kate Shaw, An- nie Pope and the writer were graduated from the institution and received their diplomas from the hands of Judge Shat- tuck, then the president of the Board. Mr. Laswell went up to Canyon City, was admitted to the bar served as dis- trict attorney for a number of terms and became a leading lawyer in eastern Ore- gon : he died in 1877. W. T. Wright has,, since his graduation been a resident of Union Oregon, where he is now pres- ident of a bank. He has filled many places of trust and responsibility, and in all has been found worthy. Surround- ed by a lovely and intelligent family of boys and girls growing up around him. with enough of this world's goods for his use, "his lines have fallen in pleasant places," and I am sure all his old school mates and friends wish him long life and all happiness. Miss Pope was married to Mr. Laswell a year or so after her graduation, but lived only a short time after her marriage. Miss Shaw removed with her people to California. Coming un to Oregan to attend the marriage of her friend, Miss DeVore, as bridesmaid. she canght the smallpox and died. She was a bright, intelligent, lovely girl, and gave promise of great usefulness in fu- ture life. Miss DeVore married Hon.
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W. C. Johnson, and is a writer and ar- tist of much more than ordinary ability, but like some of the rest of us I fear, she has not attained the dizzy heights to which she longed to soar when a stu- dent at the old Portland Academy.,J. B. Cox graduated in medicine settled in California and became an eminent phys- ician ; he died about the year 1885. He was a good, true, honest man, and spent his life in a useful manner.
In September, 1865, Mr. S. C. Sayre took charge as principal, with Miss Angeline Robb as preceptress, Miss Fran- cis Henderson, teacher of primary de- partment, Miss Anna R. Robb, music teacher, and Mme. Parot as teacher of
sistant ; Miss Anna R. Robb and Prof. J. E. Sedlak music teachers, and Mrs. E. R. Phelps, teacher of primary de- partment. A military company was or- ganized which was drilled first by Cap- tain W. S. Powell, and then by Captain S. C. Mills. In 1869 the officers of this company were Daniel Harvey, captain ; George J. Ainsworth, first lieutenant, and F. R. Strong, second lieutenant. This created quite a military spirit among the boys. In these times school was taught the full 44 weeks in the year. Prof. Gatch remained in charge of the insti- tution for four years and left the school prosperous. Prof. Gatch has filled a large space in the educational history of
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French. While a man of some education Prof. Sayre did not make a success, al- though he had a splendid corps of as- sistants.
Miss Angeline Robb married Colonel. J. M. Drake, now deceased, and now lives in San Jose, Cal. Miss Henderson married Judge John Catlin, and resides in this city. Miss Anna R. Robb married Hon. C. W. Parish and died about two years since at Canyon City.
In 1866 Prof. T. M. Gatch took charge as principal. His was a most fortunate selection, and under him the school prospered. The enrollment was 275. His assistants were Miss Emily York, preceptress; Prof. T. H. Craw- ford assistant; Miss Carrie Jeffers, as-
the state, and is now the honored Presi- dent of the State Agricultural College at Corvallis. Prof. Crawford taught for many years in the public schools, as prin- cipal; also served as city superintendent, and now occupies a position in the Ore- gon State Agricultural College. Miss York married Mr. A. W. Moore, of Olympia, who died some years ago, and she now lives with her daughter in East- ern Oregon. Miss Jeffers married George L. Hibbard, and now resides in this city. Mrs. Phelps taught in the pub- lic schools many years, and died here some 15 years ago. During Prof. Gatch's term, the following were graduated from the institution: Wilbur Masters. Albert Morton, Foster Bennett, Winfield S.
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chapman, Harra D. Chapman, Fred V. Holman, Douglas W. Taylor, Fred R. Strong. Thomas N. Strong, Thomas Con- nell. Charles A. Backenstoss, Samuel Sunon, Silas G. Kelly, William Dierdorf and Miss Louisa Ingrams. Wilbur Masters settled in Yakima, Washington, and died there some years ago. He was a young man of sterling character and worth, of good ability, giving promise of a useful and prosperous career, yet the great conquerer, death, called for him, and he passed forever out of sight. Al- bert Morton is still one of Portland's honored citizens. Foster Bennett was a teacher, and for a time assisted Prof. Gatch, but for years I have lost sight of liim. Winfield S. Chapman has for many years been a man of affairs in the City of Portland, holding positions of trust and responsibility in the city gov- ernment, worthily filling them. He is now searching for gold in the wilds of Alaska. Harra Chapman is too well known to the readers of this journal as one of its publishers to need words of in- troduction from me. Fred V. Holman is and for many years has been a lawyer of this city, occupying a high position at the bar. Everybody in the city of Port- land knows Douglas W. Taylor ; he, too, has occupied many important positions in the city government of Portland. He has been United States Surveyor General of the State, and has worthily filled all these places. Fred R. and Thomas N. Strong are well known leading lawyers of the city. Thomas Connell is the Vice- President of the Ainsworth National Bank. Charles A. Backenstoss is dead. Samuel Simon is a partner in the mer- cantile houses of Fleischner, Maver & Co. Silas G. Kelly is a respected farmer of this county. William Dierdorf is a minister in California. Miss Louisa In- gram married Mr. Foster Bennett.
The trustees in 1869 were W. H. Wat- kins, president: A. C. Gibbs, secretary ; W. S. Ladd, treasurer; H. W. Corbett, M. P. Deady, E. M. Burton, J. F. De- Vore, George H. Atkinson, Henry Fail- ing. E. D. Shattuck, Lloyd Brooke. A. L. Lovejoy, R. B. Wilson, E. J. Northrup, A. Walts, William Masters, Josiah Fail-
ing, O. S. Frambes, J. D. Holman, M. F. Mulkey, Thomas M. Gatch. All dead but three, Messrs. Corbett, Frambes and Gatch.
In 1870 Rev. W. H. Rogers, assisted by his brother, Prof. L. L. Rogers, took charge of the institution. They were cultured, cultivated gentlemen, and good teachers, but only remained in the school for one year. At the close of their tern Misses Emma Giltner, Lottie E. Hall and Mattie Grooms, and William H. Up- ton, W. W. Gibbs, and Newton L. Gil- ham were graduated. Miss Giltner is now the wife of our fellow townsman. Eugene D. White. Miss Hall married a Mr. Powell, and has been dead some years. Miss Grooms is now the widow of Lyle P. Gilliland, for many years bookkeeper with the First National Bank but now deceased. Billy Upton. as we used to call him, is now Hon. W. H. Upton, ex-Judge of the Superior Court, of Walla Walla, and a leading lawyer at that place. William W. Gibbs studied law and was admitted to the bar. but died many years ago. Newton L. Gilham for many years delivered Uncle Sam's mail "with certainty, safety and celerity" in this city.
In 1871 Rev. T. F. Royal took charge as principal, and for four years did effec- tive work. He was assisted by Mrs. Roval and his sons, Prof. M. G. Royal and Rev. Stanley O. Royal.
I am already extending this article longer than I ought to, and cannot give time to details as I would like. Rev. T. F. Roval is still in active work and a member of the Oregon Conference. His son, Rev. S. O. Royal, is a leading mem- ber of one of the Ohio conferences of the Methodist Church, while M. G. Royal is one of the leading educators of our neighboring state, Washington.,Du :- ing his term Miss Nannie Taylor, Miss Mary Coombs, Messrs W. H. Meisse, John Wilcox, W. W. E. Royal, Simon Selling and Quinn H. Dillon, and the Misses Emma C. Robb, Mary E. Hall. Jennie Caples, Edith H. Dillon, and Mary E. Cook were graduated. Miss Taylor has been for many years and still is a teacher n the public schools of this city.
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WM. T. WRIGHT.
J. B. COX.
MRS. W. B. LASWELL. (Miss Annie Pope.)
MRS. W. C. JOHNSON, (Miss Josie DeVore.)
MISS KATE SHAW.
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WM. B. LASWELL.
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Miss Coombs is still a resident of the city. Mr. Meisse I think, is a missionary in Africa, while Mr. Wilcox is one of Port- land's business men. Miss Robb married Mr. Satterlee, and resides in Tacoma. Miss Hall is the wife of Mr. E. E. Cousins of this city. Miss Jennie Caples is with her father, Hon. John F. Caples, now Consul at Valparaiso, Chili. Mr. Selling is dead. Miss Dillon married, and lives in Fairhaven, Washington. Mr. Doane is a business man of Eastern Ore- gon. Mr. Dillon is a practicing lawyer, I think, now in Alaska. .
After Prof. Royal resigned, Rev. S. G. Heron and Mrs. Mary L. Bodenham- mer, now Mrs. Ellis G. Hughes, had charge for a year, but the increasing ex- cellence of the Portland High School made is impossible to keep up a school whose only support was from tuition, and the school was closed. The property re- maining was deeded by the trustees to the Willamette University and the Port- land Academy and Female Seminary ceased to be.
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Of the many students who attended the old institution it would be a pleasure to speak and to recall their names. I have not all of them, and have no list from which to select. Judge D. W. Litchtenthaler. for many years a leading lawyer of Eastern Oregon, and now re- siding in Portland. W. S. Buckley an- other student of early days, went to Cali- fornia and for many years sat on the Superior bench of that state. J. M. P. Troutt now one of the Superior Judges of San Francisco. Millard O. Lownsdale, the great singer, agriculturist and all round good fellow of Yamhill County. Captain W. S. Powell and his wife, then Miss Helen Hill. Miss Rosa Frazer, now Mrs. R. F. Burrell. Miss Jerusha Frazer, now Mrs. W. N. Griswold. Eu- gene Shelby, now superintendent of Wells-Fargo Express Company. Byron Z. Holmes, one of Portland's capitalists. George Taylor Cotton a resident and merchant of Seio. Linn County. Luther Cary, who was our astronomer. Alonzo McIntire now deceased. R. G. Callison, of Lane County, Captain George J. Ains- worth, now deceased, and his now widow,
who was then Miss Sutton. Miss Mary Robinson now Mrs. W. J. Gilkey, of Day- ton, Oregon. Miss Maria Kelly, now Mrs. Van B. DeLashmutt. Miss Oliva Henderson, now Mrs. Edward Failing. Miss Alice Henderson, now Mrs. Dr. C. C. Strong. Miss Mattie Boon, wife of Ed. C. Ross, for many years editor of the Walla Walla Statesman. George E. Watkins, of Parrish & Watkins. Miss Abbie Atwood, for many years one of Portland's public school teachers. Miss Lizzie Ross, now Mrs. E. A. Levins, of Goldendale, Wash. Miss Eva Pope, now Mrs. George A. Steel. Miss Georgia Pope, now Mrs. Judge Meldrum. Miss M. E. Pope, now Mrs. R. F. Canfield, Mary and Ellen and their brother. Dr. J. W. Robinson, of Jacksonville. Charles B. Talbot, deceased. Miss Alice Talbot, now Mrs. N. H. Bird, of this city. Captain Richard Hoyt, for many years leading river pilot of the Columbia River, now deceased. Dr. Boyd P. Quivey, and his wife, Miss Mildred Bennett. Miss Irine Quivey, now Mrs. F. R. Coffin, of Boise City, Idaho. Eugene, Walter and Herman Graden. Eugene long since deceased, while Walter and Herman occupy good po- sitions in this city. Miss Grace Gray, now Mrs. Judge Goodall, of Union County. Harry Benson, now Judge H. L. Benson, of Klamath Falls. The Misses Eagleton, one now the wife of our Con- gressman, Thomas H. Tongue, another of Captain J. D. Merryman, of Hillsboro, and another, Mrs. W. D. Pittinger. a teacher of the Hillsboro public schools. Misses Mary and Louise Hensill. Mary lias been dead for many years, and Louise is now the wife of W. W. Sprague, of Tacoma. Miss Sarah Kiethley, now the wife of Captain W. H. Pope. Miss Sarah Powell, now wife of H. C. Hill, of Portland. John Powell, who died many years ago. Miss Alice Rockafellow, now Mrs. Foster, of Portland. Miss Ma- hala Wilson, now Mrs. J. H. Burke. of Portland. Miss Icelia Anderson, now Mrs. C. W. Sears, of Albany. Miss Adelia Hartness, married to S. S. Doug- las, but long since deceased. George Hartness, one of Portland's substantial
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citizens. Edward W. Cornell, one of Portland's prominent citizens, and his wife, formerly Miss Sarah Robb. Ed- ward Failing, now deceased. James F. Failing, one of our forentost merchants. William T. Gillihan, James Weatherford, Lewis Weatherford, Ella Weatherford, now Mrs. David Steel, Ada Weatherford, now Mrs. Dr. Downing, Myrtie Walker, now Mrs. Winch, Mary Walling, now Mrs. W. E. Newsome, George Coffin, Stephen Coffin, Adelia Belknap, Lorena Belknap. Esther Campbell married Ben Holladay. |Hattie Campbell married Charles E. Calef. Gus Campbell, Sallie Campbell, Jennie Patterson, Mary Pat- terson, Eppa Patterson, now
Mrs. George H. Andrews; Effie Patterson, Alex McCready, J. B. Lane, J. W. King, Eva McNamee Sally Dobbins, now Mrs. George T. Myers; D. W. Dobbins, Charles R. Watkins, Miss Sophie Taylor, now the wife of I. W. Pratt, the dean of the teachers in the public schools of this city ; W. Y. Masters, a good lawyer and one of Portland's city fathers; S. G. Skidmore, deceased ; L. C. Millard, dead ; Jasper W. Johnson, Jacob J. Johnson, William A. Luse, of Coos County, Ed- ward M. Atkinson, Robert W. Blossom, Louis Blumauer, now head of Blumauer- Frank Drug Company : W. B. Jones, one of Portland's merchants : William H. Mattoon, Ladri Royal, James D. Suther- land, Minerva W. Bryant, Alta Bryant, Eliza J. Dunbar, Martha E. Kelly. now Mrs. Dr. Plummer : Henry Ach, now one of San Francisco's leading lawyers ; Emanuel Beck, Willie S. Becanan now Captain Becanan, well-known river pilot ; Harry C. Boyd, now insurance man : Entil Bories, now Dean of Medical Department, Washington State Uni- versity; Ben Selling, one of the leading
A building which is now standing in Oregon City and which served as the first capitol of the territory of Oregon, was built in 1850 by John L. Morrison, afte: whom Morrison street, Portland, was named. The territorial Legislature held its sessions there before the capitol was
business men of this . city; Will- iam M. Ladd and Charles E Ladd, now of Ladd & Tilton; Edward N. Deady, Paul R. Deady, Moses Durk- lieimer, merchant of Prairie City ; Aaron Fox, merchant of Troutdale, and IIer. man E. Metzger, a Portland merchant. Miss Ida Curry, now the wife of Hon. S. G. Benson, of San Jose, Cal. ; Herbert Northrup, now dead; Miss Ada North- rip, now the wife of Mr. C. A. Morden, foreman of the Oregonian printing of- fice ; Miss Clara Northrup, of this city, and Miss Nellie Northrup, wife of J. M. Johnson, of Spokane; Miss Laura Kline, now Mrs. F. S. Akin of Mount Tabor and Miss Abbie Kline, now Mrs. J. C. Moreland, who for more than 33 years has been one of the most loving. forbearing, and faithful wives with which a man was ever blessed.
There are many others whose names I do not recall whom I would like to mention.
Thus the old Portland Academy and Female Seminary served its time and generation well. Its students have gone into the world to engage in trade and business, in the learned professions, at the bar and on the bench and in the pulpit ; they have served in various im- portant positions and I do not know of any one who has not so conducted himself as to honor the institution. It is now more than 35 years since I left this school ; of those who were students there very many have passed away. The ma- jority of my class has sunk into dream- less rest. The boys and girls of then are the grand parents of today. Time rolls on and soon the students who attended school in the old academy will be what the institution is today-only a memory.
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changed to Salem. Subsequently it was used as a Good Templars' hall and a Y. M. C. A. occupied it. Both of these possesed good libraries in their time. It was also used for a private school. The Oregon City Enterprise was first pul- lished therein. Again it was used as a saloon and hotel for several years.
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A NATIVE SON SPEAKS ON THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION BEFORE A HARVARD UNIVERSITY SOCIETY.
We are permitted by Mr. H. W. Cor- bett to print the following argument written by his grandson, Henry Ladd Corbett, now at Harvard College, he representing the affirmative of the question propounded :,
Was the United States Justified in Re- taining the Philippines ?
HENRY LADD CORBETT.
We are all fully acquainted with events which preceded the declaration of war with Spain,-the cruelty and oppression exercised by Spain over the Cuban is- landers. their lieroic struggle for inde- pendence. the intervention of the United States, and finally the destruction of the "Maine." It was owing rather to a combination of all these causes than any particular one, that lead to the Spanish- American War.
On the 22nd of April the war was be- gun by a proclamation by the president, which established a blockade of several ports on the north coast of Cuba. As
Great Britian immediately proclaimed n. utrality, Admiral Dewey with his Asiatic Squadron was forced to leave Hongkong and put to sea. In accordance with instructions from Washington he set sail for the Philippine Islands. Spain's western possessions. Upon his arrival at Manila, without a moment's delay Dewey forced his way under cover of darkness, into the harbor and in the engagement which then ensued, totally destroyed the Spanish fleet, silenced all the shore batteries and fortifications, and cast anchor before Manila itself.
From this onward the war progressed rapidly, both in Cuba and in the Philip- pines, until on August 12th, a protocol was signed, providing for peace. On Au- gust 13th, however, before the news of the protocol could reach them, Admiral Dewey and General Merritt, in conjunc- tion with Aguinaldo, who was at the head of the Philippine revolt against Spain, had secured the surrender of Ma- nila, the capital of the Philippines. It ivas not therefore surprising to find, four months later, in the treaty of peace dra:vn up at Paris, that Spain ceded the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20,000,000, and other valuable con- siderations.
The United States was now in full po- session. She had become the sovereign ruler over eight or ten million people and an immense amount of territory. But the cry arose, "Is the United States justified in retaining these islands which have been bought and sold with no regard whatso- ever to the will of their inhabitants?" "Is such action warrantable?" "Can such action be shown to be just and conform- able to the laws and customs of the United States."
Let us glance back along the history of the United States and see if it be possi-
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ble to justify a retention of the Philip- pines on any legal grounds. "The pow- er of the government," says the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, "to deal with foreign or domestic territory as territory, pre- cisely as it pleases, was understood from the beginning to be absolute, and at no period in its history has the United States hesitated to exercise this power." It is true that the nation has recognized this power of the government, and hereto- fore it has never raised the slightest ob- jection to it. In fact the United States has established as a precedent, her right to acquire new territory unquestioned. Let me call your attention to several important acquisitions of territory. Very early in the history of the United States, Louisiana was purchased. Monroe bought Florida. Polk bought Califor- nia in 1848, and later on, New Mexico was purchased by Pierce. Only 33 years. ago,-in 1867 President Johnson bought Alaska for seven million dollars. Not an opposing voice was raised when Pres- ident Monroe paid Spain her millions for Florida. No question of illegality was raised when Louisiana was purchased from France. No one feared for the laws and customs of the United States, when, one after another, these purchases were made. Each one gave its strength to a growing precedent.
To those who hold that the Government must never, whatever be the need, deviate from the narrow path, laid out by the Constitution. The Constitution it- self says, in article IV, section
III, that "Congress shall have the power to dispose of and make all rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States."
I have often heard the objection voiced that this policy of expanding American territorial bounds and of extending her government over foreign peoples is con- trary to the Monroe doctrine. Why this should be considered as a conclusive ar- gument against expansion, I do not Know, for to apply the doctrine to the present case is manifestly impossible. !f those who bring forward this argu- ment had but taken the trouble to inves-
tigate, they would have discovered this fact for themselves ; they would have seen that the Monroe Doctrine was pronoun- ed at a particular time under cir- cumstances which have no particular bearing upon the present case.,During Monroe's presidency, frequent troubles arose through European powers inter- fering in the government of many Cen- tral and South American countries. As things were going on, it would have been only a matter of time before the United States would have been hemmed in by a ring of European colonies. It was ow- ing to this ever increasing menace that Monroe pronounced his famous doctrine, which neither was, nor was intended to be, a restriction upon American expan- sion. It was simply a warning to Euro- pean powers to stay at home. They might keep what land they then possessed said Monroe, but henceforth America was to be no colonizing ground for the powers.
A few, even now declare that expan- sion is wholly foreign to the precedent established by United States history. Their statement is false on the face of it. Look at the history of the United States? It was hardly fifteen years af- ter the establishment of a stable govern- ment before the purchase of Louisiana added more than 1,000,000 sq. miles to United States territory. The Florida purchase in 1819 added 59,268 sq. miles more. The annexation of Texas still further increased American bound- aries, until after the purchase of Alaska in 1867, the United States contained near- ly four times the erea of its original thir- teen states.
In all truth then we can say that the United States is justified in retaining the Philippines on legal ground. For the United States not only holds these islands by right of purchase, a right which has never been denied her, but her action is justified by history and even by the Con- stitution itself.
Besides this justification on legal grounds, a retention of the Philippines can be justified on grounds of political advantage. In the first place, the is- lands are extremely valuable in them-
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alves, as possessing great natural ad- santages. They are covered with un- touched forests of valuable woods, as many as sixty varieties of rare trees be- mg found there in great quantities. In jute of the value of this timber region, its development has so far been neglected, but there only awaits the awakening, sure to follow American government in the :lands, before this undeveloped country will begin to be opened up by American citizens and to become of advantage to the United States.
In addition to timber wealth, the is- lands contain large mineral deposits of almost every kind. Iron and sulphur are found in large deposits in all of the islands. Gold is found to some extent in all the islands, but particularly in Lu- zon and Minandas. The island of Cebu possesses large lead deposits, and Luzon in addition to its extensive gold mines, abounds in copper. Besides all these various deposits I have spoken of, Cebu and Negros, possess one other which is of great value inasmuch as it renders the islands having it particularly accept- able as mid-sea stations. This deposit is coal, which in itself is sufficient to make the islands posessing it worth keeping.
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