 | Rosemarie K. Bank - 1997 - Страниц: 316
...and a few ranging savages over a republic of cities, towns, and farms, improved by art and industry, "occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"55 On 9 February 1822, a delegation of Pawnee, Kansa, Missouri, Omaha, and Oto hosted a farewell... | |
 | Rogers M. Smith - 1997 - Страниц: 740
...previously argued, if any "partial evil" were involved, it was permitted by providence as a means to replace "a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages" with an "extensive Republic . . . filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion."128... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1998 - Страниц: 468
...not wish to see this continent restored to the condition in which it was found by our forefathers. What good man would prefer a country covered with...farms, embellished with all the improvements which an can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 11,000,000 happy people, and filled with all... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - 1999 - Страниц: 554
...many white citizens denounced as a cruel act: What good man would prefer a country covered with forest and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive...republic, studded with cities, towns and prosperous farms and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion? The tribes which occupied... | |
 | Wendy S. Wilson, Gerald H. Herman - 2000 - Страниц: 158
...Weston Walch, Publisher 18 tinent restored to the conditions in which it was found by our forefathers. What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? Document B "Letter to the American People" from Choctaw Chief George W. Harkins (As found... | |
 | Timothy B. Powell - 2000 - Страниц: 240
...the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way." "What good man," Jackson concluded, "would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged...by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic . . . filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?' (my emphases).16 Thus,... | |
 | Andrew Lenner - 2001 - Страниц: 248
...military necessity. 18 Yet Jackson was not hostile to the concept itself. "What good man," he asked, "would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged...the improvements which art can devise or industry can execute." Like all good Jeffersonians, Jackson and his advisors were concerned that fostering a... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - Страниц: 314
...generation to make room for another. . . . What good man would prefer a country covered with forest and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive...Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms . . . ? (quoted in Blum et al., 232; emphasis added) For all Poe's efforts to locate poetry and "the... | |
 | Ira Katznelson, Martin Shefter - 2002 - Страниц: 390
...Jackson expressed a widespread sentiment when he declared in his message to Congress in December 1830, "What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?" The Jackson administration regarded treaties not as moral obligations but as matters of... | |
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What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute,... 
