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George entertains for those of the proprietors 

 of real estate. 



He says: *' Their land is spacious and void, 

 and there are few who do but run over the 

 grass as do also the foxes and wild beasts. 

 They are not industrious, neither have art, 

 science, skill, or faculty to use either the land 

 or the commodities of it ; but all spoils, rots, 

 and is marred for want of manuring, gathering, 

 ordering, etc ? As the ancient patriarchs there- 

 fore removed from straiter places into more 

 roomy, where the land lay idle and waste, and 

 have used it though there dwelt inhabitants by 

 them (as Gen. xiii., 6, 11, 12 and xxxiv. 21, and 

 xli., 20), so it is lawful now to take a land which 

 none useth, and make use of it." 



Thus the Puritans -quoted Scripture, and 

 their descendants act upon the same lack of 

 principle without their canting hypocrisy when 

 they drive the Indians from the reservations 

 they have conceded to them. But our ances- 

 tors were filibusters in some respects of a more 

 honest type than those of the present day. 

 They merely wanted a little corner of the 

 "spacious and void land " for themselves, and 

 were willing to leave the natives in posses- 

 sion of all the rest. They endeavored to 



