bout 1890. He was neither a fighting man
nor a hunter. He travelled, often alone, wholly unarmed, among
wild, savage Indians, his peaceable disposition and defenceless
condition being respected. He, it is said, would not sell his
lands at the mouth of the river, and thus forced the city of Portland
to be located twelve miles from the Columbia.

( 6) My father was not a large man, his weight being only about
one hundred and sixty pounds and height five feet, ten inches, but
my mother, while only of medium height for a woman, was of large
frame and weighed about one hundred and eighty pounds.

( 7) Solitary reading law, with time for thought and reflection,
has its advantages, more than compensating for the opportunity to
consult reports, etc., usually enjoyed by a law student in an
office.

The present Chief-Justice (Hon. David Martin) of Kansas, though
nominally a law student of mine, yet read and mastered the elementary
and principal law-books while tending, as a miller, a dry-water
country grist-mill, remote from my office.

( 8) On the recommendations of Generals Grant and Meade I was
appointed (1866) by President Johnson a Lieutenant-Colonel in the
26th Infantry, U. S. A., one of the new regular regiments provided
for after the close of the war. I declined the appointment because
I was of too restless a disposition and not educated for a soldier
in time of peace.

( 9) The Thirteenth Amendment was proclaimed ratified Dec. 18,
1865; the Fourteenth, July 28, 1868, and the Fifteenth, March 30,
1870.

(10) In the Florida Indian War of 1812 some depredations were
committed on Fisher's corn fields. For this he made a claim
originally for $8000. Congress has since paid on it $66,803, and
there was still a claim in the Forty-Third Congress for $66,848,
on which a committee of the House reported in favor of paying
$16,848, leaving $50,000 of the claim to bother future Congresses.
--_Rep_. (No. 134) _on Law of Claims_, H. of R., Forty-Third Cong.,
p. 18.

(11) Later the Forty-Seventh Congress passed an act authorizing
the distribution of about two-thirds of the whole fund to persons
whose claims were rejected by the Geneva Arbitrators in making up
the award.

(12) For an authoritative decision on the right of the National
Government to use physical force to compel obedience to its laws,
etc., see _Ex parte_ Seibold, 100 _U. S. Rep._, 371.

(13) _Proceedings Society of the Army of the Cumberland_, 1