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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
PP.
380-381
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UNITED STATES SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
Senate Hearing 95th Congress
SECOND SESSION
ON
S. 2000
(Retyped for clarity)
380
"...As that great authority on Indian Affairs,
United States Congressman
Joshua
R. Giddings,
summarized in 1858 the actions of the United States in the
introduction to his treatise,
The Exiles of Florida
(at p.vi):"
"Florida was purchased;
treaties with the Florida Indians were made and violated; gross
frauds were perpetrated; dishonorable expedients were resorted to,
and
EXHIBIT
70o
381
another war provoked. During its protracted continuance of
seven years, bribery and treachery were practiced towards the Exiles
and their allies, the Seminole Indians; flags of truce were
violated; the pledged faith of the nation was disregarded....
"Men who wielded the influence of Government for
the consummation of these crimes, assiduously labored to suppress
all knowledge of their guilt; to keep facts from the popular mind;
to falsify the history of current events, and prevent an exposure of
our national turpitude......"
EXHIBIT 70p
See also:
USA TODAY - THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1983 -
7A
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