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The Salem Clique: Oregon’s Founding Brothers

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“All through the decade of the 1850s, the Oregon Territory progressed toward statehood in an atmosphere of intense political passion and conflict. Editors of rival newspapers blamed a group of young men whom they named the ‘Salem Clique’ for the bitter party struggles of the time. Led by Asahel Bush, editor of the Oregon Statesman, the Salem Clique used to be accused of dictatorship, corruption, and the intention of imposing slavery on the Territory. The Clique, critics maintained, even conspired to establish a government separate from the USA, conceivably a ‘bigamous Mormon republic.’ At the same time as not in agreement with one of the crucial more extreme latest accusations against the Clique, many historians have concluded that its members were vicious and unscrupulous men who were able, as a result of their command of the Democratic Party, to impose their hegemony on the Oregon Territory’s inhabitants. Other scholars have seen them as merely another manifestation of the contentious politics of the period. Even though the Salem Clique has been given considerable prominence in nearly every account of Oregon’s Territorial period, there has not been a detailed study of its role until now. What kind of people were these men? What used to be their affect on the issues, events, and movements of the period? What role did they play in the years after Oregon became a state? Historian Barbara Mahoney sets out to answer these and many other questions in this comprehensive and deeply researched history”–Publisher description.

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