Extinction of “red men”
Aug 16, 1837
In a letter to delegates about to assemble in a Young Men’s Anti-Slavery Convention, in New Hampshire: “Young men of New-Hampshire! Remember the guilt of your country! For two hundred years her soil has been stained with human blood — blood warm and fresh, — the blood of innocence! She is now engaged in completing the extinction of the red men of the forest, once the occupants and owners of her soil, once multitudinous and powerful!…” 1