 | Peleg Sprague - 1858 - 540 pages
...the original inhabitants are the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as a just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." And again, " it has never been contended that the Indian title amounted to nothing. Their right of... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 pages
...considerab paired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, witli as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their o< but their rights to complete sovereign ty as independent nations were ne< nished, and their power... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1946 - 906 pages
...Indians "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... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1868 - 444 pages
...natives were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as a 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 will, except to the government claiming the right of preemption.... | |
 | Charles Deane - 1873 - 36 pages
...impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, wilh 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... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - 1876 - 560 pages
...Indians 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 were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 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 their... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - 1879 - 632 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... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson - 1881 - 486 pages
...natives wereSrehftitteil'tolSe the rightfufoccupants 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... | |
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In the establishment of these relations the rights of the original inhabitants were, in no instance, entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal... 
