From the standpoint of the master caste it is to condemned even more strongly because it invariably in the end threatens the very existence of that master caste.

From this point of view the presence of the negro is the real problem; slavery is merely the worst possible method of solving the problem.

There may be differences of opinion as to how to solve the problem; but there can be none whatever as to the evil wrought by those who brought about that problem; and it was only the slave-holders and the slave-traders who were guilty on…

The worst foes, not only of humanity and civilization, but especially of the white race in America, were those white men who brought slaves from Africa, and who fostered the spread of slavery in the States and territories of the American…

They hated the Indians, and, as a rule, were brutally indifferent to their rights, while they looked down on the Federal Government as impotent.

His speeches showed, as his deeds had already shown, in a high degree, that loftiness of courage, and stern, uncomplaining acceptance of the decrees of a hostile fate, which so often ennobled the otherwise gloomy and repellent traits of…

The white settlers were unflinchingly bent on seizing the land over which the Indians roamed but which they did not in any true sense own or occupy.

In return the Indians were determined at all costs and hazards to keep the men of chain and compass, and of axe and rifle, and the forest-felling settlers who followed them, out of their vast and lonely hunting-grounds.

No other conquering and colonizing nation has ever treated the original savage owners of the soil with such generosity as has the United States.

It was all-important that it should be won, for the benefit of civilization and in the interests of mankind.

It is indeed a warped, perverse, and silly morality which would forbid a course of conquest that has turned whole continents into the seats of mighty and flourishing civilized nations.

All men of sane and wholesome thought must dismiss with impatient contempt the plea that these continents should be reserved for the use of scattered savage tribes, whose life was but a few degrees less meaningless, squalid, and ferocious…

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman.

The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him.

American and Indian, Boer and Zulu, Cossack and Tartar, New Zealander and Maori,--in each case the victor, horrible though many of his deeds are, has laid deep the foundations for the future greatness of a mighty people.

Yet the very causes which render this struggle between savagery and the rough front rank of civilization so vast and elemental in its consequence to the future of the world, also tend to render it in certain ways peculiarly revolting and…

All the merciful humanity that even war has gained during the last two thousand years is lost.

It is a warfare where no pity is shown to non-combatants, where the weak are harried without ruth, and the vanquished maltreated with merciless ferocity.

A sad and evil feature of such warfare is that the whites, the representatives of civilization, speedily sink almost to the level of their barbarous foes, in point of hideous brutality.

When the clash comes between these men and their sombre foes, too often there follow deeds of enormous, of incredible, of indescribable horror.

The Americans succeeded, the British failed; for the British fought against the stars in their courses, while the Americans battled on behalf of the destiny of the race.

Their deeds were not put into books while the men themselves lived; they were handed down by tradition, and grew dim and vague in the recital.

What one fierce partisan leader had done might dwindle or might grow in the telling or might finally be ascribed to some other; or else the same feat was twisted into such varying shapes that it became impossible to recognize which was…

It is less of a paradox than it seems, to say that one reason why the Indians were so formidable in warfare was because they were so few in numbers.

More than once, when a cabin was attacked in the absence or after the death of the men, some brawny frontierswoman, accustomed to danger and violent physical exertion, and favored by peculiar circumstances, herself beat off the assailants.