 | Charles Edwards Lester - Texas - 1846 - 216 pages
...destruction of the constitutions of thousands and the increase of immorality among the Indians. We cannot measure the desolating effects of intoxicating liquors...the savage nature. The remoteness of their situation excludes them from all the benefits that might arise from a thorough knowledge of their condition by... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Campaign literature - 1855 - 452 pages
...intoxicating liquors among the Indians by any analogy drawn from civilized life. With the Red man th« consequences are a thousand times more frightful....the savage nature. The remoteness of their situation excludes them from all the benefits tbat might arise from a thorough knowledge of their condition by... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Statesmen - 1855 - 428 pages
...destruction of the constitutions of thousands, and the increase of immorality among the Indians. We cannot measure the desolating effects of intoxicating liquors...analogy drawn from civilized life. With the Red man ths consequences are a thousand times more frightful. Strong drink, when once introduced among the... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836 - 1860 - 440 pages
...immorality among the Indians. We Cannot measure the desolating effects of inttxicating liquors among tho Indians -by any analogy drawn from civilized life....are a thousand times more frightful. Strong drink, wheu once introduced among the Indians, unnerves the purposes of the good, and gives energy to the... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Texas - 1883 - 256 pages
...destruction of the constitutions of thousands, and the increase of immorality among the Indians. We cannot measure the desolating effects of intoxicating liquors...the savage nature. The remoteness of their situation excludes them from all the benefits that might arise from a thorough knowledge of their condition by... | |
 | William Carey Crane - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 700 pages
...upon them by our Indian agents and their accomplices. But the purposes for which these vast annulties and enormous contingent advances were made, have only...consequences are a thousand times more frightful." Were Gen. Houston now living, he could have added to this statement from the London Examiner : " When... | |
 | Henry Bruce - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 260 pages
...destruction of the constitutions of thousands, and the increase of immorality among the Indians. We cannot measure the desolating effects of intoxicating liquors...the savage nature. The remoteness of their situation excludes them from all the benefits that might arise from a thorough knowledge of their condition by... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1893 - 452 pages
...destruction of the constitutions of thousands, and the increase of immorality among the Indians. We cannot measure the desolating effects of intoxicating liquors...the savage nature. The remoteness of their situation excludes them from all the benefits that might arise from a thorough knowledge of their condition by... | |
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But the purposes for which these vast annuities and enormous contingent advances were made have only led to the destruction of the constitutions of thousands, and the increase of immorality among the Indians. We cannot measure the desolating effects of... 