Our Relations With The Indians Have Been

Step By Step A Powerful And Enterprising Race Has Driven Them Back From The Atlantic To The West Until At Last There Is Scarcely A Spot Of Ground Upon Which The Indians Have Any Certainty Of Maintaining A Permanent Abode.

It Is Unfair To Suppose That One Party Has Invariably Acted Rightly, And That The Other Is Responsible For Every Wrong That Has Been Committed.

One Hundred Years Before The Pilgrims Landed At Plymouth, The Spanish Government Issued A Decree Authorizing The Enslavement Of The American Indian As In Accord With The Law Of God And Man.

If We Dismiss From Our Minds The Prejudice We May Have Against The Indians We Shall Be Able To More Clearly Understand The Impulses That Govern Both Races.

Looking At The Purpose Of Our Government Toward The Indians, We Find That After Subjugating Them It Has Been Our Policy To Collect The Different Tribes On Reservations And Support Them At The Expense Of Our People.