I am searching not for their legal attainments. but for the fact whether they recognized or not the existence of such a trust. whether they recognized from the beginning that this land was purchased for this purpose and for this only. and I care not whether they used language equally applicable to an express trust or an implied trust or not. except that so strong and clear was their conviction that it did impose such a trust that they lost sight of the distinction and spoke of it in the same confident terms that they would if it had been an express trust. Sir. after this negotiation and this appropriation of these lands for this purpose. the Government undertook the work of bringing the peaceable Indians. as far as and as fast as they could. upon this ground. Immigration set in of white people. the tide of immigration pressed West. so that immigrants undertook. without any authority to take possession of that land. white men insisted that that land was the land of the United States without any condition or limitation. and as the land of the United States they would enter upon it. and they would enter upon it whether the Government would or not. They went in a body down upon the border of the Indian Territory with a commander at their head. What did the Government do?
Keywords matched
immigrants Immigration immigration