HEEEDITY. 



i. 



HEREDITARY DESCENT IN ANCIENT 

 GREECE. 



PEELUDE ON CTJKKENT EVENTS. 



WHICH is the cheaper, to fight the American In- 

 dians, or to civilize them ? Which is financially the 

 wiser, savage butchery used against savages, treach- 

 ery employed against treachery, Indian agents worse 

 than the savages themselves to match these deci- 

 mated tribes ; or a policy of justice, a style of action 

 now recommended by two administrations at least, 

 although first inaugurated when William Penn, with 

 a sound heart and wise head, sailed up the Dela- 

 ware? [Applause.] Only a few drops of Quaker 

 blood were ever shed by an Indian. The heathenish, 

 electrically infernal creature which we call a savage 

 does treat us much as we treat him. We have 60,- 

 000 Cherokees who are civilized and quiet, and they 

 cost us almost nothing; but we have 10,000 wild 



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