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five years was a source of aggravating controversy between this 
country and Great Britain, at one time very nearly involving the 
two nations in war, as to which was the “channel” referred to 
in thetreaty. Great Britain, true to a national tendency, insisted 
while the United States insisted that Haro channel, on the north- 
ern side of the island, was the main channel within the meaning 
of the treaty. : 
This minor boundary controversy was finally adjusted by a 
provision in our treaty with Great Britain of May 6, 1871, sub- 
mitting the question to the arbitration of the German Emperor, 
who, on October 21, 1872, made his award sustaining the conten- 
tion of the United States ; and thus, after a period of nearly eighty 
years, dating from the discovery of the Columbia by Captain 
Gray, the whole question as to the ownership of the Oregon terri- 
tory was finally determined, not, however, without a sacrifice of 
important rights as to our northern boundary in the interest of 
compromise. 
That Dr Whitman was misunderstood at the time by many, 
and by none more than by the board of American missions, and 
therefore suffered unjust criticism from that board, there can be 
no question. Barrows, in his * History of Oregon,” in referring 
to this fact, says: ‘‘ He, as Coleridge says of Milton, strode so far 
before his contemporaries as to dwarf himself by the distance.” 
But the day of atonement has come, and although in this as in 
many other cases justice has been delayed, yet as a poet has 
said, “ Ever the right comes uppermost, and ever justice is done.” 
No longer ago than Sunday, the tenth of the present month 
(March, 1895), in the city of Chicago, the day was widely ob- | 
served in the Congregational churches of that city in honor of 
Marcus Whitman, and incidentally in aid of Whitman college at 
Walla Walla. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, in its issue of March 11, 
says: ‘‘ Dr Whitman is the hero of the Congregational church of 
this century. In fact, in the largeness of the results he accom- 
plished, no man of the century leads him.” 
At the city of Walla Walla, in the state of Washington, within 
six miles of Waiilatpu, the spot where he and his missionary 
wife and nine other companions were, on November 27, 1847, 
mercilessly slaughtered by the very savages whose best interests 
had been subserved by them and whose heads had been blessed 
by their benedictions, there is to be erected a college bearing his. 
name, with an endowment of $200,000, $50,000 of which has been 
pledged by Dr D. K. Pearson on condition that the balance is 
