The Life of John Marshall Electronic Resource volume 01
The Life of John Marshall Electronic Resource volume 01
Albert J Beveridge
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Who were the Indians, anyway, except a kind of wild animal very much in the frontiersman s way and to be exter minated like other savage beasts? Were not the Indians the natural foes of these white Lords of the earth? 1 Indeed, it is more than likely that most of this advance guard of the westward-marching American people never had heard of such treaties until the Government s puny attempt to enforce them. At any rate, the settlers fell afoul of all who stood in their way; and, in the falling, ...spared not their hand. Madison declared that there was "danger of our being speedily embroiled with the nations contigu ous to the U. States, particularly the Spaniards, by the licentious & predatory spirit of some of our West ern people. In several instances, gross outrages are said to have been already practiced. " 2 Jay, then Secretary of State, mournfully wrote to Jefferson in Paris, that "Indians have been murdered by our 1 "The white people who inhabited the frontier, from the constant state of warfare in which they lived with the Indians, had imbibed much of their character; and learned to delight so highly in scenes of crafty, bloody, and desperate conflict, that they as often gave as they received the provocation to hostilities.
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