Henry Clay, Secretary of State, at a Cabinet meeting for Republican (constitutionalist) President John Quincy Adams, endorses a policy of genocide against indi(genous Americ)ans: “There never was a full-blooded Indian who took to civilization, it is not in their nature. … Their disappearance from the human family will be no great loss to the world.”
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Authority:
Article I, Section 2, Clause 2
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References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The Great Centralizer: Abraham Lincoln and the War of Federal Aggression,” Cato Journal, 3 (Fall 1998): 257.
White Sand and Red Clay.mht
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