The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . he wants of twenty-fivehundred people. But a strange sort of feeling hadgrown up on the frontier, that it was the Indians whowere intruders; still more strange was the feeling thatthey were not to be dealt by as other men, but as some-thing less than men. If the Indians would sell theirlands on the whitemens terms, welland good ; if not away would be foundto make them doit. This cruel pol-icy has been theone prolific causeof our Indian warsfrom first to has de-nounced it, but no-body has put a stopto it. In conse-quence, there ar
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . he wants of twenty-fivehundred people. But a strange sort of feeling hadgrown up on the frontier, that it was the Indians whowere intruders; still more strange was the feeling thatthey were not to be dealt by as other men, but as some-thing less than men. If the Indians would sell theirlands on the whitemens terms, welland good ; if not away would be foundto make them doit. This cruel pol-icy has been theone prolific causeof our Indian warsfrom first to has de-nounced it, but no-body has put a stopto it. In conse-quence, there arefew treaties withthe Indians thatAvill bear the scru-tiny of honest of them have been obtained either by fraud or his lands were taken from him by conquest, theIndian bore it like a man of courage ; but when he hadbeen cheated of them, his one resource was revenge. In common with other governors, Harrison had setabout getting cessions of lands, first from one tribe, thenfrom another, as one of his first duties. And in so do-. i>;i4^^ WILLIAM HKNRY HARRISON.
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