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plies ? Can we wonder that they should still remain 
the same low abject and degraded creatures that 
they are, loitering about the white man’s house, and 
cringing, and pandering to the lowest menial for 
that food they can no longer procure for themselves ? 
or that wandering in misery through a country, now 
no longer their own, their lives should be curtailed 
by want, exposure, or disease? If, on the other 
hand, upon the first appearance of Europeans, the 
natives become alarmed, and retire from their pre- 
sence, they must give up all the haunts they had 
been accustomed to frequent, and must either live 
in a starving condition, in the back country, ill sup- 
plied with game, and often wanting water, or they 
must trespass upon the territory of another tribe, in 
a district perhaps little calculated to support an 
additional population, even should they be fortunate 
enough to escape being forced into one belonging to 
an enemy. 
Under any circumstances, however, they have 
but little respite from inconvenience and want. 
The white man rapidly spreads himself over the 
country, and without the power of retiring any fur- 
ther, they are overtaken, and beset by all the evils 
from which they had previously fled. 
Such are some of the blessings held out to the 
savage by civilization, and they are only some of 
them. The picture is neither fanciful nor over- 
drawn ; there is no trait in it that I have not per- 
sonally witnessed, or that might not have been 
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