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[[circled]] 91 [[/circled]]
[[triple underline]] Chapter X [[/triple underline]]

[[strikethrough]] United States Ex. Rel,
Standing Bear, et. al.
Complainants:
against
Brigadirs General George Crook,
Respondent.
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[[triple underline]]
Argument for Respondent
by G.M. Lamberstone U.S. Attorney. [[/triple underline]]

I desire to preface my argument by paying most willing tribute to the distinguished gentlemen who have so kindly interested themselves in, and who have so generously tendered their professional services on behalf of the Indian race. For these gentlemen appear here, not alone for the Ponca Indians but as representatives at large of all the noble red men.

This question has a wider significance than the liberty or restraint of twenty-five Indians. It involves largely the extent of the power of the government over all the Indian tribes. It is alike creditable to the legal profession and to our common humanity that men of wide culture and eminent ability are willing to turn aside from remunerative pursuits and extend the strong hand of Civil Justice to uplift what they believe to be a wronged though [[?uncivilized]] people. I might be led to wish for these [[gid?]] discuss who appear here as the general [[agu hambers?]] 

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