 | 1887 - 698 էջ
...unjust as are represented by Mr. Ross. If one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction...awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify tho action of a minority of fifty persons to do what the majority would do if they understood their... | |
 | 1922 - 446 էջ
...converted to emigration, said that John Ross and his party were "ignorant of their true situation, and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction that awaits them." 1. The Cherokee Natione of Indiane — Rojrce. 2. Georgiane, Gilmer. By 1838 only two thousand one... | |
 | William G. McLoughlin - 1992 - 508 էջ
...to speak for them. As Boudinot put it, "if one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction...what the majority would do if they understood their condition."6 However, the signers of this treaty were not as fifty out of one hundred; they were a... | |
 | Catherine Clinton - 1994 - 260 էջ
...Cherokee Affairs," treaty signer Elias Boudinot wrote: "We can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons — to do what the...majority -would do if they understood their condition" (Theda Perdue, ed., Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot [Knoxville, Tenn., 1983], 162).... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - 1995 - 1402 էջ
...unjust as are represented by Mr. Ross. If one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation, and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction...awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons to do what the majority would do if they understood their condition... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1996 - 258 էջ
...or unjust as are represented Mr. Ross. If one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation, and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction...awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons — to do what the majority would do if they understood their... | |
 | Jace Weaver - 1997 - 257 էջ
...in an "Indian community." He declared, "If one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation, and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction...awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons — to do what the majority would do if they understood their... | |
 | Charles C. Royce - 578 էջ
...blinded as not to see the destruction that awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons to do what the majority...condition, to save a nation from political thralldom and moral degradation. Sl'EECH OK GKN1CRAL RG DUNLA1'. It having been extensively rumored, during the few... | |
 | Charles C. Royce - 578 էջ
...unjust as are represented by Mr. Ross. If one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction...awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons to do what the majority wou]d do if they understood their condition,... | |
 | Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green - 2007 - 220 էջ
...Chapel Hill THE TREATY OF NEW ECHOTA "IF ONE HUNDRED p ERSONS are ignorant of "their true situation, and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction that awaits them," Elias Boudinot wrote in 1837, "we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty... | |
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If one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction that awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons to do what the majority would do if... 