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possession might prove their ruin, and ban them from the Kingdom of heaven? Their gold mines might have a greater snare than all the dangers of the west. If we would procure the continuance of the political constitution, who knows whether even they would prove a blessing to them? Who knows but these very afflictions are designed to take them to a far distant region, and render them a light to all the nations west of the Rocky mountains? Here it may be enquired whether I would justify measures to deprive them of their rights? Certainly not, but as a missionary I should perhaps say "Who made me a judge or a divider over your Extract of a letter to the Cor. Sec. dated May 12 - 1831 "The American Board, by their agent, applied to the President permission to establish missions among the Indians within the United States, and for the protection of the Executive to be extended over those missions. These favours were granted but no doubt, on the supposition that the missionaries to be sent, would act in the character of missionaries simply, and not as politicians, in opposition to the views of the Executive. The President, I believe has generally claimed the right of admitting white residents among the Indians (in accordance with treaty stipulations)" of regulating their conduct, and of removing them at his own? discretion. On this ground we are amenable directly to the President, subject to his prohibitions and orders. {This, I think is the understanding of the A. Board.} But the President says that the authority, with which we have supposed him invested, belongs to the several states within whose chartered limits we reside; and the state of Georgia exercises the same in accordance with this President receives. The state authorities, therefore, in my opinion