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claim to be lords of the soil, have been driven back into the 

 more remote wilderness, or compelled to succumb to the 



INDIANS ATTACKING AN EMIGRANT TRAIN. 



superior power of the invader, in many instances being utterly 

 exterminated. Still, north and south of that iron line the 

 country resembles a desert ; and the wild Indian roams as of 

 yore, like the Arab of the East his hand against every man, 

 and every man's hand against him. 



