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3928. INDIANS, Lands of.—[further continued] .

I am myself alive to the
obtaining lands from the Indians by all honest and peaceable means, and I believe that the
honest and peaceable means adopted by us will
obtain them as fast as the expansion of our
settlements with due regard to compactness, will
require.—
To Andrew Jackson. Washington ed. iv, 464.
(W. 1803)