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recess of congress. "A special election chose J. W. Nesmith to fill the vacancy who though a democrat had achieved some of the practices of his party if not his love of office." 1
Mr. Nesmith's interest in Indian affairs is seen in presenting Indian war claims of Oregon and Washington citizens, in advocating the purchase of a reservation in Idaho, in asking for an investigation of losses in Oregon, caused by Indian depredation and in asking for the correspondence concerning the Modoc Indian War.
Nesmith's eulogy on Charles Sumner contains the following, "An opponent with whom I had hardly a political sentiment in common, - the refined John Brown who threw around his efforts such a charm of learning such graces of rhetoric that it seems wrong to class him with the coarse fanatic who molded into bullets the feelings and words
1. Firch. History of Oregon. Vol. 7 p 674

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169 recess of congress. "A special election chose J. W. Nesmith to fill the vacancy who though a democrat had achieved some of the practices of his party if not his love of office." 1 Mr. Nesmith's interest in Indian affairs is seen in presenting Indian war claims of Oregon and Washington citizens, in advocating the purchase of a reservation in Idaho, in asking for an investigation of losses in Oregon, caused by Indian depredation and in asking for the correspondence concerning the Modoc Indian War. Nesmith's eulogy on Charles Sumner contains the following, "An opponent with whom I had hardly a political sentiment in common, - the refined John Brown who threw around his efforts such a charm of learning such graces of rhetoric that it seems wrong to class him with the coarse fanatic who molded into bullets the feelings and words 1. Firch. History of Oregon. Vol. 7 p 674