Plain Facts: Being an Examination Into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America, to Their Respective Countries (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Samuel Wharton

 
9780484378826: Plain Facts: Being an Examination Into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America, to Their Respective Countries (Classic Reprint)

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Judge Black/lone, (peaking of the right of migration, or of fending colonies to find out new habitations, when the lnother country was over charged with inhabitants, fays, fo long as it was confined to the flock ing and cultivation of defer! Uninhabited countries, it kept firiftly within the limits of the law of nature. But (continues be) how far the feizr ing on countries already peopled, and driving out the innocent and de fencelefs nativesg merely becaufe they differed from their invaders in langtlage, in religion, in cufloms, in government, or in colour; how far foch condu€t was confonant to nature, to reafon, or to Chrifiianity, deferved well to be confidered by thofe who have rendered their names immortal by thus civilizing mankind.

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