Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records of trials to be made.
Message to the Senate Responding to the Resolution Regarding Indian Barbarities in the State of Minnesota
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