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calamities for the future; to check the frightful 
rapidity with which the native tribes are being 
swept away from the earth, and to render their pre- 
sence amidst our colonists and settlers, not as it too 
often hitherto has been, a source of dread and 
danger, but harmless, and to a certain extent, even 
useful and desirable, is an object of the deepest interest 
and importance, both to the politician and to the phi- 
lanthropist. I have strong hopes, that means may 
be devised, to bring about, in a great measure, these 
very desirable results ; and I would suggest, that 
such means only should be tried, as from being just 
in principle, and equally calculated to promote the 
interests of both races, may, in their practical adop- 
tion, hold out the fairest prospect of efficacy and 
success. 
