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Page v
... fathers that these are the Hittites who are to be driven out before the saints of the Lord , they do accept the teaching that manifest destiny will drive the Indians from the earth . The in- exorable has no tears or pity at the cries of ...
... fathers that these are the Hittites who are to be driven out before the saints of the Lord , they do accept the teaching that manifest destiny will drive the Indians from the earth . The in- exorable has no tears or pity at the cries of ...
Page viii
... fathers had never known . It has only needed a real or a fancied wrong to have this pauperized savagery break out in deeds of blood . Under President Grant a new departure was taken . The peace policy was little more than a name ...
... fathers had never known . It has only needed a real or a fancied wrong to have this pauperized savagery break out in deeds of blood . Under President Grant a new departure was taken . The peace policy was little more than a name ...
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... father , his grandfather , and his great - grandfather before them had lived in prisons , and died on scaffolds , should that man say in his soul , " Go to ! What is the use ? I also will commit robbery and murder , and get the same ...
... father , his grandfather , and his great - grandfather before them had lived in prisons , and died on scaffolds , should that man say in his soul , " Go to ! What is the use ? I also will commit robbery and murder , and get the same ...
Page 44
... father to them and their children in thus providing for them not only at pres- ent , but forever . " Eleven hundred and thirty Indians ( eleven tribes , besides the Delawares , being represented ) were parties to this treaty . By this ...
... father to them and their children in thus providing for them not only at pres- ent , but forever . " Eleven hundred and thirty Indians ( eleven tribes , besides the Delawares , being represented ) were parties to this treaty . By this ...
Page 51
... Father " will punish the Sioux , who have at two different times attacked them , and murdered in all some thirty " They say they do not wish to offend and disobey their Great Father , and before they attempt to revenge them- selves they ...
... Father " will punish the Sioux , who have at two different times attacked them , and murdered in all some thirty " They say they do not wish to offend and disobey their Great Father , and before they attempt to revenge them- selves they ...
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