Looked at by his own standard, he is virtuous when he most injures his enemy, and the white, if he be really the superior in enlargement of thought, ought to cast aside his inherited prejudices enough to see this, to look on him in pity and brotherly good-will, and do all he can to mitigate the doom of those who survive his past injuries.
In McKenney's book is proposed a project for organizing the Indians under a patriarchal government; but it does not look feasible, even on paper.

Could their own intelligent men be left to act unimpeded in their behalf, they would do far better for them than the white thinker, with all his general knowledge.

But we dare not hope the designs of such will not always be frustrated by barbarous selfishness, as they were in Georgia.

_There_ was a chance of seeing what might have been done, now lost for ever.
Yet let every man look to himself how far this blood shall be required at his hands.

Let the missionary, instead of preaching to the Indian, preach to the trader who ruins him, of the dreadful account which will be demanded of the followers of Cain, in a sphere where the accents of purity and love come on the ear more decisively than in ours.