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tie, when released from the trials and troubles of life.
VVere it possible to reverse the order of things, by
placing the whites in the same condition, how long
would it be endured? There is not a white man, who
deserves the name of man, that would not rather die
than be deprived of his home, and driven from the
graves of his relatives. “ Oh shame, where is thy
blush!”

With all the wholesome and enlightened laws; with
all the advantages and privileges of the glorious Gospel,
that shines so richly and brightly all around the white
man; the poor ignorant Indians are compelled, at the
point of the bayonet, to forsake the sepulchres of those
most dear to them, and to retire to a strange land,
where there is no inhabitant to welcome them!!! May
the day soon dawn, when Justice will take her seat
upon the throne.

If I did not think that there were some who are alive
to the interests of my people, and often shed a tear for
them ; ifI did not think that I could discover a gleam
of light and hope in the future, “I should of all men
be most miserable.” “ Surely the bitterness of death”

would be “ past.” I look then to the Gospel and to

education as my only hope.
I will now state, in a very brief manner, What I think

ought to be done, by those whose benevolent feelings
lead them to commiserate the condition of the Abori-

gines of America. ,
1. They should establish missions and high schools

wherever the whites have frequent intercourse with
them.