“This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate.” President Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, December 29, 1813
Tag: Genocide
Quote – Extirpate these Savages
“If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these Savages in order to make room for cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.” Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography, 1750s
Quote – The strange race
A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called Drinks Water, who dreamed what was to be; and this was long before the coming of the Wasichus. He dreamed that the four-leggeds were going back into the earth and that a strange …
Quote – Total destruction and devastation
“The immediate objectives are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Orders of George Washington to General John Sullivan, May 31, 1779
Quote – Condemned to everlasting barrenness
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?” John Quincy Adams, 1802, when rationalizing territorial …
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Poem – Blessed be the war
Blessed be the children Who lay slain on the floor Either this way now Or that way later They will die in the middle of a war Caught between the crossfire Life is the only desire Darkness covers light One must never give up the fight For remember Blessed be the children Who lay slain …
Quote – Those awful savages
"Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?” Governor William Henry Harrison, of the Indiana Territory (1800-1812) while defending …
