Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 43/The Columbia Gorge
THE COLUMBIA GORGE
E. D. BAKER
[Of the Oregon senatorial race of 1860, Bancroft said: "E. D. Baker, a prominent politician, who came from California, where his star was not propitious, to Oregon, where he hoped to have a finger in the new politics. He made many speeches during the summer campaign . . . ". One of his many triumphs that year was his Fourth of July speech at Salem: "The orator's fame had spread far and near, and when the speaker began the crowd was so vast that fully one-fourth were fortunate in finding standing room; but the eloquence of the speaker was such that in less than 20 minutes all were standing." The following sample of his eloquence, a description of the Columbia gorge, is from his first speech in the United States Senate in January, 1861.]
Mr. President: The adventurous traveller, who wanders on the slope of the Pacific and on the verge of civilization, stands awestruck and astonished in the great chasm formed by the torrent of the Columbia, as, rushing between Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens, it breaks through the ridges of the Cascade Mountains to find the sea. Nor is this wonder lessened when he hears his slightest tones repeated and reechoed with a larger utterance in the reverberations which lose themselves at last amid the surrounding and distant hills....
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