For the hideous, unnamable, unthinkable tortures practised by the red men on their captured foes, and on their foes' tender women and helpless children, were such as we read of in no other struggle, hardly even in the revolting pages that tell the deeds of the Holy Inquisition.
Roosevelt condemns the extreme cruelty inflicted by Native Americans on their captives, comparing it to historical atrocities.
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