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Letter from P., before 15 August 1842

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P., Letter, to the editor of Times and Seasons [JS], [
Nauvoo

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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, Hancock Co., IL], before 15 Aug. 1842. Version published in “To the Editor of the Times and Seasons,” Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1842, 3:890–891. For more complete source information, see the source note for Letter to Isaac Galland, 22 Mar. 1839.

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See Historical Introduction to Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1842.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Letter from P., before 15 August 1842 Times and Seasons, 15 August 1842

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port of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Executive Departments of the Government of the
United States

North American constitutional republic. Constitution ratified, 17 Sept. 1787. Population in 1805 about 6,000,000; in 1830 about 13,000,000; and in 1844 about 20,000,000. Louisiana Purchase, 1803, doubled size of U.S. Consisted of seventeen states at time ...

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, many important facts are gleaned, relating to the Indians, both as to numbers and habits, and progress, and expenses. It is generally known, that our government has been engaged for some years, in removing and locating the remnant of the tribes of Indians, left among our citizens in the states and teritories, to, and upon a more congenial, and better adapted space for hunting, and husbandry, where, by degrees, these noble “relics of a once mighty people,” might gradually grow into civilization, arts, science, agriculture, manufactures, virtue, national importance, and religion. The appearance, however, of a very speedy advance, from Indian to English, or American habits, customs, manners, improvements, refinement and intelligence, is not, by far so prominantly perceptible, as their imitation of the pioneer vices. The improvement is hardly equal to the amount of money expended for removing, for agents, mechanics, teachers, preachers, &c. &c. As to numbers the reports will range about as follows:
Tribes. population
Cherokees, 25,000
Choctaws, 15,000
Creeks, 20,000
Senecas & Shawnees, 500
Quapaws, 500
Sacs & Foxes, 7,000
Sioux. 23,000
Osages, 4,300
Chippewas, 4,000
Pawnees, 12,000
Camanches, 20,000
Pagans, 30,000
Appaches, 20,000
Assinboins. 15,000
Grosventures, 17,000
Crows, 7,000
Eutaws, 19,000
Black feet, 30,000
Total, 269,300
Yet remaining East to be removed, 25,000
Making an aggregate of 294,300
The commissioner’s report, however allows the Indian population in the
United States

North American constitutional republic. Constitution ratified, 17 Sept. 1787. Population in 1805 about 6,000,000; in 1830 about 13,000,000; and in 1844 about 20,000,000. Louisiana Purchase, 1803, doubled size of U.S. Consisted of seventeen states at time ...

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and teritories, to be . . . 333,000.
This, I think does not include those now occupying the space west of the
Rocky Mountains

Mountain chain consisting of at least one hundred separate ranges, commencing in present-day New Mexico and continuing about 3,000 miles northwest to northern Canada. Determine flow of North American rivers and streams toward Atlantic or Pacific oceans. First...

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Thus you have a glimpse of the lights and shades of the aboriginees of the west, in their low estate, showing that the wilderness does not yet “blosom ast the rose,” although the signs of the times would indicate, that the time is near when the mountains will drop down new wine, and Jacob’s face will not wax pale.
P. [p. 891]
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