 | United States. War Department - 1869 - 560 Seiten
...savage drew his saber and used it on the person of the woman in the same manner. I do not know exactly how far these humanitarians should be excused on account...their ignorance, but surely it is the only excuse that gives a shadow of justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes. Although Ouster had struck... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1870 - 596 Seiten
...savage drew his saber and used it on the person of the woman in the same manner. I do not know exactly how far these humanitarians should be excused on account...their ignorance, but surely it is the only excuse that gives a shadow of justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes. Although Ouster had struck... | |
 | George Washington Manypenny - 1880 - 490 Seiten
...savage drew his saber and used it on the person of the woman in the same manner. I do not know exactly how far these humanitarians should be excused on account...justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes." It is a lamentable fact that the Indian is a savage, and hi* modes of torturing his victim are barbarous.... | |
 | 1890 - 624 Seiten
...earnest, and does not hesitate to make his charges in the most unqualified manner. He says further : " These foolish sentimentalists not only write foul...justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes.' " We have already stated that Mr. Koosevelt admits that, as a people, we have without question treated... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 384 Seiten
...intentions but indifferently atones for the invariable folly and ill effect of their actions. It is not too much to say that the book is thoroughly untrustworthy...popular delusions on the subject. He speaks (pp. 9, 1 1, 23) of Kentucky as containing " nearly pure English blood, mainly derived through the old Dominion,... | |
 | Arthur L. Kopit - 2015 - 82 Seiten
...—"I do not know how far these socalled humanitarians should be excused on account of their political ignorance; but surely it is the only excuse that can give a shadow of justification for their aiding and abetting such horrid crimes as the Indians have perpetrated on our people." INDIANS... | |
 | Paul Andrew Hutton - 1999 - 500 Seiten
...criticize brave, self-sacrificing soldiers who were combatting so hellish a foe. "I do not know exactly how far these humanitarians should be excused on account of their ignorance," he wrote in his annual report to the War Department, "but surely it is the only excuse that gives a... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 244 Seiten
...recital of the Sandy Creek massacre with the facts as stated by Mr. Dunn — who is apt, if anything, to lean to the Indian's side. These foolish sentimentalists...justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes." Hie men and women who shaped our world — in their own words. The Wisdom Library invites you on a... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1869 - 544 Seiten
...savage drew his saber and used it 011 the person of the woman in the same manner. I do not know exactly how far these humanitarians should be excused on account...their ignorance, but surely it is the only excuse that gives a shadow of justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes. Although Cust'er had struck... | |
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... effect of their actions. It is not too much to say that the book is thoroughly untrustworthy from cover to cover, and that not a single statement it contains should be accepted without independent proof ; for even those that are not absolutely false,... 