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Professing a desire to civilize and settle them, we have at the same time lost no opportunity to purchase their lands and thrust them farther into the wilderness.
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gutenberg.orgProfessing a desire to civilize and settle them, we have at the same time lost no opportunity to purchase their lands and thrust them farther into the wilderness.
He criticizes the government's simultaneous desire to civilize Native Americans while also dispossessing them of their lands.
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