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Show 13 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER. .tf reinark of the late Attorney General Legark, is not morestriking than h e , that " There is nothing in the whole coinpas of our laws so anomalous, so hard to bring within any precise definition, or any logical and scientific arrangement of principles, as the relation in which the Indians stand to-wards this Government and those of the States." My own views are not sufficiently matured to justify me in undertaking to present them here. To do so would require elaborate detail, and smll this report beyond its proper limits. I thereforeleave the subject for the present, remarking, only, that any plan for the civilization of our Indians will, in my judg~nent, be fatally defective, if it do not provide, in the most efficient manner, first, for their concentration; secondly, for their domestication; and,. thirdly, for their ultimate incorporation into the great body of our citizen popnlation. Respectfully submitted, I,. LEA, Commissioner. Hon. A. H. H. STUART, Secretary of the fizteiior.. |