Remarks on the Practicability of Indian Reform
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Excerpt from Remarks on the Practicability of Indian Reform: Embracing, Their Colonization; With an Appendix The principles on which Europeans first met the Aborigines of America followed by ruinous consequences. The Indian title to the soil legal. Its legality may be acknowledged without detriment to the United States. The design of the following pages is to exhibit the obligation which the people of the United States are under, to meliorate and substantially improve the condition of the Aborigines of our country, together with the means for attaining this most desirable object. From among the many things which might be said on this subject, I shall endeavour to select a few, which I deem worthy of special notice. I suppose that the increasing wretchedness of the Indian tribes with whom the Europeans have come in contact ever since their settlement in this country, may be traced to the degradation in which they found them. They were, at that time, sunk to the level of nature, and had ceased to feel the influence of a spirit of improving enterprise. Though in possession of physical means for the elevation of their character, yet they were destitute of mental cultivation. This fact produced the same effect upon all who discovered, and settled different portions of the country, whether Spaniards, English or French. If some were cruel, and others humane, the difference originated in the feeling each brought with them from their mother country, and not in different views of the national rights of the natives. Neither the one, nor the other, met the Indians as on an equality with themselves. It requires no argument to prove that all agreed in supposing the Indians possessed no legal title to the soil on which they were found, and that they were too destitute of national character to be met on an equality in negociations. That they had claims on our sympathies, has never been denied by any good man - that they had a legal right, as a nation, to any portion of the territory, has never been admitted by any government which has come in contact with them. Thus low were the Indians sunk, either in fact, or in the estimation of Europeans, on their discovery of America. They did not possess moral ability to elevate themselves, nor have they since been put in possession of that ability by their more fortunate neighbours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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