Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
Hart, Albert Bushnell. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892, p. 28.
With different concepts of land ownership Europeans and Indians were at odds over purchases from the earliest times. This was the first of the many efforts to eliminate problems of contention with Native Americans over land.
The Cherokee tribe of Georgia had their government abolished by state law, their meeting prohibited, their land taken and they were urged to migrate to land west of the Mississippi. The federal government promised:. See Lewis Cass for a similar, unequivocal unkept promise.
He was Governor-General of Korea when he made this statement. Most Japanese had nothing but disdain for Koreans and most other ethnicities.
‘Amalgamated’ was a euphemism for ‘being taken over by’. Ito was assassinated shortly thereafter by a Korean patriot who objected to Ito’s takeover of his country.
This quotation is a good illustration of a practice that existed in the age of Empire where two or more large powers would agree among themselves as to which one of them had the right to seize a smaller power, not part of the compact.
First Indian to hold the position
There were a few members of Congress who were distressed at the deception that was very often used in negotiations with Indians. They never were a sufficient majority to pass serious, meaningful legislation.
This was passed in 1787 before the Constitution had become operative, but was then ratified by Congress in 1789. It was one of the first acts of our new nation, and one of the most frequently violated throughout our history.
He was an Army Major at the time he wrote this article. In 1966 his positive view of Britain was overwhelmed by the anti-colonial fervor that existed in much of Africa.
Albert Bushnell Hart was an American historian, writer, and editor based at Harvard University. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor of historical works, Albert Bushnell Hart became, as Samuel Eliot Morison described him, "The Grand Old Man" of American history, looking the part with his "patriarchal full beard and flowing moustaches."
