Why not give him the result of his laborl Why drive him off to some other territory and to some new land and leave him to wait until the appraisal of these lands has been made. and then allow him whatever pittance is estimated with which to build a new home? If that proposition was made in regard to the poorest white man that has settled between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies upon the public lands. and the people of the United States knew it. it would meet with universal condemnation. You could not do it to the poorest immigrant that came into this country without exciting the hostility and condemnation of every honorable man in the land. But these Indians that we are legislating for may be driven one after another from their lands. as Chief Joseph was from the home he had built up for himself and his family. and not a voice raised against it. Now I admit-
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