Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-04-06

eontemForacs In the great work OF discovery and settle
mcnt.
ture, in confirming the Indians within limits
However, cannot help prasng the moderation OF the
English puritans, settled IN New Engsnd who, notcith
stond'"g hetr 6etng furnished totth q charter from
their sdUeeign purchased OF the Indians the land, they
resolved TO cultivate. This laudable example follow
cd by MIR. VIM. Penn. who planted the colony OF Qua
kcrs I'm PennSy lvania"
Did it ever either Of these celebrated writer's
that neither the pilgrims Of New England the found
OF PennSy had any claim the OF the
countries Included Ia their charters, until they purcha-
sod the usuirucuary night of the lndians The praise
humanity u awarded to ihem not Tor doing what upon
this sr'uiIous assumption, they necessarily have
done but Tor abandoning their rights and sacrificing their
Interest to their sense OF equity: For holding in abcy
oncc their legal claims, till to these added the
unary REIMBURSEMENT of the primitive people, who, by
law OF stern necessity, TO disappear before them
Professor Ebeiing, in his History of Pennsylvania
translated by Mr. Duponceau, says "Ths tribe the De-
owarcs. ''by formal contract, coded the land 20 William
Penn who wished to make his settlement on soil right
fully acquired and principle that had before
0e recognized in the establishment OF any European
ony W no does not wish TO become intimately
quanted with this man, whose noble spirit raised him so
lar above the age he lived nl'
Noble, in his continuation of Granger is equally struck
with the disincrested course of Penn ole occupied his
domains by actual bsrgau and sale with the Indians
This fact does him infinite honor Penn has thus taugh
us TO respect tho lives and properties of the
! lightencd nations"
But the could him honor if he bought only what
he had no right TO take without buying Nor would such
lesson DC worth communicating incucaing.
But Penns own opinion upon this topic is conclusive
In ms letter TO the Lords OF the Committee OF Trade and
Plantations, i'll 1858, he says al have followed the Bshor
oil Londons COUNSEL in buying, and taking away the
native lands sc. His right to take them evitentl,
never doubted ny himself others but advised by tn,
pous Compton, he adopted the wiser as well as bette
course aud thus acquired for himself uniading enown
ana Tor his Province happy exemption from many o
hose wars, which devastated the other Colonies.
Ills bographer Carkson, speaking this distinguished
act says, "e proved himself, in this instance, above thu
PeJndccs and customs of The times. If these 'preju
dccs aud customs did not sanction the acquisition of th
Indian lands without the consent Of the roaming occu
pants, and his charter considered as blank paper
lar a the rights OF the natives were concerned" this i'm
cdenin the life Of Penn illustrative of his own charac
e ana oil Inc principles OF the sect to which he belonged
mas been wholly misunderstood. 1t dwindles into tn
mere purchase OF article he DESTROYS of obtaining
OUT winch he could not obtain without such purchase
Etaham, IN his history OF the United States remarks
mat IN The settlement OF Maryland the emigrants awar
mat the irst settlers i'll Virginia has given umbaye to tn
Indians by occupying their territory acithout denondn
Their permission determined TO ss1ne Tho new viii IN
ancient race OF Inhabitants by the reciprocal ties of equt
and good will -
The same author in speaking of the Dutch, observes
her nrSt settlement effected apparently without an
equitable remuneration TO the Indians''
Chalmers The accurate and laboOus annalist thus state
the general principles
" The American emigrants settled in ro,;o, ,,b;c
was regarded by them territory of the English en-
pre- because ii had been first discovered and first occu
ped ny virtue OF commissions from the great seal of Eng
anu HE validity of this title had been re cornzod Il
hS appreciation and practice OF the European world An
hao oeeh confirmed by the law OF nations, which stern
"ey mad not been admitted into the society OF nations"
Aer"aids says Douglass, 'in place of prior discovc
ry, presumption OF the Indian natives and occupancy wa
deemed more Just and equitable title
oooNln the friend CT the Indians, the quaint STYLE
ms day. observes, i any should object that is not n,
cessay me English should grant them (hc ndiams) Ian
orasnuch as was all their native country and propert,
before inc English came into Americas the answer is re;
ny. firs that the English claim right TO their (he II
di@ns) land, by patent from King"
! Among the proceedings the Massacbusett's cover,
nent, is the following, in 1888: e0'''
1T Is enacted and decrecd by this Court and the auhc
y thereof, that what lands any OF the Indians have NOS
.essed and Improved. By subduing the same they have
m'! 'iSht unto, according TO that in Genesis L. IS 90
ms Is the very doctrine Of tho elementary writer's hs
ueeH' ~ '"u "e
"In America" says Robertson, "every Indian is eitbe
a immediate vassal OF the Crown depends upon som
1nei SUBJECT 10 whom the district in which lie resides
mas been granted for limited tiue under the denouina
! Ton oil an e1c0n'icHda."
II were useless waste OF time and labor 10 inuIiip
these quotations They abound in every history of In
] discovery and so.t E ttItrc n
con ana authoritative declarations ch be ar pon hi
question (Io DC coninted)