Stepping-stones of American history . ^\\A vO \V\ THE COLONISTS AND THE INDIANS ~|~^HE spread throughout the earth of what we call-?? CiviHzation has always in its first steps meantthe suppression of weak races by the strong; themanner of its progress has been akin to that of thecar of Juggernaut. Whether or not our ancestorshad the moral right to settle upon a continentalready occupied by another race of men, and to drivethem out at the point of the sword and the musket,is a nice question which, however, it is now idle forus to discuss. The North American Indian, never a lovablecreature
Stepping-stones of American history . ^\\A vO \V\ THE COLONISTS AND THE INDIANS ~|~^HE spread throughout the earth of what we call-?? CiviHzation has always in its first steps meantthe suppression of weak races by the strong; themanner of its progress has been akin to that of thecar of Juggernaut. Whether or not our ancestorshad the moral right to settle upon a continentalready occupied by another race of men, and to drivethem out at the point of the sword and the musket,is a nice question which, however, it is now idle forus to discuss. The North American Indian, never a lovablecreature either physically or morally, has practicallydisappeared from all places desired by the whiteman, and no one would now wish to have him re-stored. But in briefly reviewing the relations ofthe colonists to the tribesmen, let not our satisfactionat the result blind our eyes to the fact that the caseof the savages merits at this distant day a morecharitable view than could be held by men andwomen who lived nearer to the time of the events. While all
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