A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles Through the United States of America
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is it politic in her, to hold herself up to the world as faithless and unjust as a nation, which, in defiance of all moral obligation, will break her most sacred contracts, whenever it becomes no longer her interest to keep them, and she finds herself in a condition to do so with impunity ? is she not furnishing foreign statesmen with a ready and powerful argu- ment in defence of their violating treaties with her? can they not with justice say- America has manifested in her proceedings towards ...the Cherokee nation, that she is faithless that she keeps no treaties longer than it may be her interest to do so and are we to make ourselves the dupes of such a power, and wait until she finds herself in a condition 264 AMERICA. to deceive us ? I could produce many argu- ments to illustrate the impolicy of this con- duct ; but as I intend confining myself to a mere sketch, I shall dwell but as short a time as may be consistent on the several facts con- nected with the case. That the Aborigines have been cruelly treated, cannot be doubted.
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