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2. II Our first and principal duty is to reclaim them as far as practicable, from the savage situation, in which they are placed, and to impart to them as many of the blessings of civilized life, as their manners and customs and inveterate prejudice will permit. 1st Perhaps it will be found on a retrospection, that we have heretofore entered upon this subject with more zeal that judgement; and that our want of success may be attributed to mean ill chosen and ill directed, rather than to any difficulty in the object itself - - - In the report of Mr. Crawford to the Senate last winter, is described with much judgement and ability the point at which Indian civilization must commence. This is in separate and individual property. So long as there is a community of property among them, so long will they all have no stimulus for exertion and no expectation of reaping the reward of their Labour - - - In nations, whose advancement in civilization has far exceeded the Indians, this common enjoyment of property has never fail'd to palsy individual exertion, unless its effects have been counteracted by religious enthusiasm. - - Among the Indians general obligations are ill defined and badly enforced, Individual rights