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... miles between the Atlantic and Pacific which has not been the scene of an Indian massacre . All this while Canada has had no Indian wars . Our Govern- ment has expended for the Indians a hundred dollars to their one . They recognize ...
... miles between the Atlantic and Pacific which has not been the scene of an Indian massacre . All this while Canada has had no Indian wars . Our Govern- ment has expended for the Indians a hundred dollars to their one . They recognize ...
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... miles of land - more than twice the size of all Europe itself . What a lure to - day would such another new continent prove ! The fighting over it would be as fierce now as the fighting was then , and the " right of occupancy " of the ...
... miles of land - more than twice the size of all Europe itself . What a lure to - day would such another new continent prove ! The fighting over it would be as fierce now as the fighting was then , and the " right of occupancy " of the ...
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... mile of land occupied by a weak and helpless owner , there will be a strong and unscrupulous frontiersman ready to seize it , and a weak and unscrupulous politician , who can be hired for a vote or for money , to back him . The only ...
... mile of land occupied by a weak and helpless owner , there will be a strong and unscrupulous frontiersman ready to seize it , and a weak and unscrupulous politician , who can be hired for a vote or for money , to back him . The only ...
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... miles square , and some other reserves for trading - posts . The Indians ' lands were comprised within lines partly indi- cated by the Cuyahoga , Big Miami , and Ohio rivers and their branches ; it fronted on Lake Erie ; and if " any ...
... miles square , and some other reserves for trading - posts . The Indians ' lands were comprised within lines partly indi- cated by the Cuyahoga , Big Miami , and Ohio rivers and their branches ; it fronted on Lake Erie ; and if " any ...
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... miles , both above and below this place ; nor have I ever before beheld such immense fields of corn in any part of America , from Canada to Florida . " All these villages were burnt , and all these cornfields de- stroyed ; the Indians ...
... miles , both above and below this place ; nor have I ever before beheld such immense fields of corn in any part of America , from Canada to Florida . " All these villages were burnt , and all these cornfields de- stroyed ; the Indians ...
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