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Indians, whom he represents. She affirms that if, because she is an Indian, she has no rights which the law will protect, & if she & her brothers & sisters are to be subject to the orders of Indian inspectors & removed to the fever jungles of the South or to any other place that caprice & cupidity may suggest, she, rather than live in the constant 
fear of such a fate, will go to Canada & claim the protection of the British Government.

Many of the Indian chiefs on the Plains are men of great natural ability. [[underline]]They[[/underline]] know as well as any one that the game on which they subsisted has gone

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never to return. They are anxious to learn the processes of agriculture. They wish to send their children to school. They, not infrequently, 
ask for Christian missionaries. But, [[underline]]nearly[[/underline]] every time, a tribe has attempted to raise stock, & to improve land, they have been removed from their possessions by some Indian inspector, & 
robbed of all they had, or of the best part of it. If they refuse to go, the soldiers are sent to force them, & thus our Indian Wars originate. Cicero, in his oration against Verres, used no denunciations too scathing 
to be merited by the plunderers who have fleeced the Indian

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