We are His children quite as much as the savages.

Therefore we have as much right to it as they have." "Only they happen to be in possession," replied Master Raymond, drily.
"Are they in possession?
So far as they are actually in possession, I admit their right.

But do you seriously mean that a few hundred or thousand of wild heathen, have a right to prior occupancy to the whole North American continent?
It seems to me absurd ?" "A relative of mine has ten square miles in Scotland that he never occupies, in your sense of the word any more than your red-men do; and yet he is held to have a valid right to it, against the hundreds of peasants who would like to enter in and take possession." "Oh, plenty of things are done wrong in the old world," replied Master Putnam; "that is why we Puritans are over here.

But still the fact remains that the earth is the Lord's and that He intended it for His children's use; and no merely legal or personal right can be above that.
If ever the time comes that your relative's land is really needed by the people at large, why then some way will have to be contrived to get hold of it for them." "The Putnam family have a good many broad acres too," said Master Raymond, with a smile, looking around him.
"Oh, you cannot scare me," replied his friend, also smiling.

"What is sauce for the Campbell goose is sauce for the Putnam gander.