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The Umatillas place to which they might be sent; and even if they did not, these poor people, relying on the promises of their 'Great Father' for protection, prefer to keep their little homes and die by the graves of their fathers, and nothing remains but to do them simple justice and protect them in their rights. It is earnestly hoped that the determination to do so will be authoritatively announced."

But the noble Elect—the gentle frontiersmen who gazed with longing eyes upon the Indian lands—denounced in language picturesque the whole business as an outrageous miscarriage.

And so it was; a miscarriage of injustice. 43