Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian, Volumes 14-18

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Lake Mohonk Conference, 1897
 

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Página 84 - all fruits with ripeness to the core." . . . And so the poem runs on through pictures of autumn, vivid, restful, fruitful, to the lines :— "Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them ; thou hast thy music, too, While barred clouds bloom the
Página 74 - shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens " (Exodus xviii. 21). Able men—competent ; such as fear
Página 55 - say the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. The soul that sinneth it shall die.
Página 55 - can get men like any of us. Kipling had the right idea. He said :— " Oh! East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat: But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they
Página 84 - Close-bosom friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run ; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all
Página 48 - Constitution says this and this only about the territory of the United States, '• Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory and other property belonging to the United States.
Página 92 - the Louisiana purchase) I have deemed it necessary to open conferences for the purpose of establishing a good understanding and neighborly relations between us." In his second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1805, he says : " The aboriginal inhabitants of these countries I have regarded with the commiseration their history inspires.
Página 95 - 1862, after announcing that the Southern Indians had entered into treaties with the insurgents, and describing the Sioux outbreak in Minnesota, says: " I submit for your especial consideration whether our Indian system shall not be remodeled. Many wise and good men have impressed me with the belief that this can be profitably done.
Página 91 - Two measures are deemed expedient. First, to encourage them to abandon hunting, to apply to the raising stock, to agriculture and domestic manufacture. Second, to multiply trading houses among them, and place within their reach those things which will contribute to their domestic comfort. In leading them thus to agriculture, to manufacture and civilization, in bringing together
Página 58 - brought into permanent official relations with the work for the amelioration of the condition of the red man; and I rejoice that he brings to his new position energy, sagacity, strong will and high consecration to this philanthropic purpose. I rejoice, too, in seeing here those who have borne the burden and heat of the day, and that

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