The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.