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The on Ota; The Red Man as Soldier, Containing a Brief But True Relation of the Memorable Struggle with the Sk Niatar T-Haga or People-From-Beyond-The

The on Ota; The Red Man as Soldier, Containing a Brief But True Relation of the Memorable Struggle with the Sk Niatar T-Haga or People-From-Beyond-The

Yager, Willard E.

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ISBN10: 1150785284
ISBN13: 9781150785283
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... Beyond the Ohio I. UT if peace and some measure of justice came, thus, to the Iroquois--elsewhere, the War of Independence past, the swarming Swannak had shortly resumed the old-time violence and oppression,1 and in sharp retaliation grew the memorable record of still a century of heroic struggle--not merely for Red rights, but existence. Even along the Ohio the merciless contest endured for yet a generation--a fact among the most astonishing in history, if conditions be considered. For the census of 1790 showed the United States to have a population of close on four millions. In the next decade was increase of nearly one-third. In 1810 the census returned 6,779,308--a gain of twenty-eight hundred and fifty thousand in twenty years, or more than one hundred and forty thousand per annum. Steadily this human sea rolled to the west; and no lands were more coveted than those beyond the Ohio. To bar their seizure, the invaders had no slightest conception of any native right. Brackinridge, editor of the Knight and Slover narratives, wrote in 1782 that, so far from admitting the Indian title, he conceived that not having made a better use of the land for many hundred years, they had forfeited all pretence to claim. He would as soon admit a right in the buffalo.2 1.--See p. 40-41. 2.--Kn. and SI. 69, 70. Of a sort of paleolithic moral development--though a touch of civilization enabled him to rough-hew English and to quote law-Latin--this interesting product of the border offered a radical plan for extinguishing the native title--if any there were. The animals vulgarly called Indians being by nature fierce and cruel--the reader may here contrast the clemency and humanity of the Man and Christian--their extirpation would be useful to the world, ...

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