Samuel Johnston Elected but declined the officeĬonstitution of 1787 U.S. Printed - January 1777 Mary Katherine GoddardĪmerica’s Four Republics The More or Less United States Georgia Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton North Carolina Joseph Hewes William Hooper John Penn Virginia Carter Braxton Benjamin Harrison Thomas Jefferson Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee Thomas Nelson, Jr. Maryland Charles Carroll of Carrollton Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Pennsylvania George Clymer Benjamin Franklin Robert Morris John Morton George Ross Benjamin Rush James Smith George Taylor James Wilsonĭelaware Thomas McKean George Read Caesar Rodney New Jersey Abraham Clark Francis Hopkinson Richard Stockton John Witherspoon New York William Floyd Francis Lewis Philip Livingston Rhode Island William Ellery Stephen Hopkins Massachusetts John Adams Samuel Adams Elbridge Gerry John Hancock Robert Treat PaineĬonnecticut Samuel Huntington Roger Sherman William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett Matthew Thornton William Whipple The moral view of the question should be considered and the question asked, Can not the Indian be made a useful and productive member of society by proper teaching and treatment? If the effort is made in good faith, we will stand better before the civilized nations of the earth and in our own consciences for having made it. The wrong inflicted upon him should be taken into account and the balance placed to his credit. Our superiority of strength and advantages of civilization should make us lenient toward the Indian. It is either this or war of extermination: Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked. My efforts in the future will be directed to the restoration of good feeling between the different sections of our common country to the restoration of our currency to a fixed value as compared with the world's standard of values-gold-and, if possible, to a par with it to the construction of cheap routes of transit throughout the land, to the end that the products of all may find a market and leave a living remuneration to the producer to the maintenance of friendly relations with all our neighbors and with distant nations to the reestablishment of our commerce and share in the carrying trade upon the ocean to the encouragement of such manufacturing industries as can be economically pursued in this country, to the end that the exports of home products and industries may pay for our imports-the only sure method of returning to and permanently maintaining a specie basis to the elevation of labor and, by a humane course, to bring the aborigines of the country under the benign influences of education and civilization.
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