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gard for the rights of human nature, when we 
see ye bent upon banishing the poor Indian 
from the land where rest the bones of his an¬ 
cestors, to him more precious than your cold 
hearts can imagine; and when we see ye ty¬ 
rannizing over the hapless African, because 
nature has stamped upon him a complexion 
different from your own ? ■ 
The conduct of the people of the States to¬ 
wards the Indians appears the more unreason¬ 
able and the more iniquito*, when it is con¬ 
sidered that they are dwindling fast away of 
themselves; and that in the natural order of 
things, there will not probably be a single tribe 
of them found in existence in the western ter¬ 
ritory by the time that the numbers of the 
white inhabitants of the country become so 
numerous as to render land one half as valu¬ 
able there as it is at present within ten miles 
of Philadelphia or New York. Even in Ca¬ 
nada, where the Indians are treated with so 
much kindness, they are disappearing faster, 
perhaps, than any people were ever known to 
do before them, and are making room every 
year for the whites; and it is by no means im¬ 
probable, but that at the end of fifty, years there 
will not be a single Indian to be met* with be¬ 
tween Quebec and Detroit, except the few 
perhaps that may be induced to lead quiet do¬ 
mestic lives, as a small number now does in 
