| United States. Supreme Court - 1823 - 756 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
| Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1827 - 748 pages
...Indians were considered as being the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discre* tion. But their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations, were necessarily diminished.... | |
| Jeremiah Evarts - 1829 - 122 pages
...generally, " They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as iceu as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." This is said, be it remembered, respecting Indians generally, found in their native condition, and... | |
| Jeremiah Evarts - 1829 - 122 pages
...generally, "They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as weu as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." This is said, be it remembered, respecting Indians generally, found in their native condition, and... | |
| United States. Congress - 1830 - 326 pages
...continent were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own. discretion." Agam : — " If an individual might extinguish the Indian title for his own benefit, or, in other words,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 96 pages
...that " they were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." " This is said, be it remembered, (we quote the remarks of William Penn) respecting Indians generally,... | |
| Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - 1831 - 332 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion: but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished; and... | |
| James Kent - 1832 - 536 pages
...natives were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the government, claiming the right of... | |
| United States. Congress - 1837 - 738 pages
...discoverer. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain . possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion. In a certain sense, they were permitted to exercise rights of sovereignty over it. They might sell... | |
| John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
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