4407. LANDS (Indian), Surrendering.—
You have it peculiarly in your power to
promote among the Indians a sense of the
superior value of a little land, well cultivated,
over a great deal unimproved, and to encourage
them to make this estimate truly. The wisdom
of the animal which amputates and abandons to
the hunter the parts for which he is pursued
should be theirs, with this difference, that the
former sacrifices what is useful, the latter what
is not.—
To Benjamin Hawkins. Washington ed. iv, 467.
Ford ed., viii, 214.
(W.
1803)
