These injuries have been done to the poor pioneers of the West. who were at the same time suffering all the privations of a new country and who were poorly equipped to meet such losses. and in some instances. in my own State. counties on the frontier lost their organization and the white settlements were driven back for many miles. Two counties I remember in my own district. Young and Clay Counties. were disorganized. the county seats abandoned. many of the inhabitants murdered. and the property all taken and destroyed by the savages. And it is a great hardship on these people to be refused payment because they could not prove that their ancestors had been duly naturalized citizens
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