"Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882)
"Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that they shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882)
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