 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes - 1837 - 164 sider
...our business to inquire on what principles we have conducted our intercourse. It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible...and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced a disposition... | |
 | 1840 - 40 sider
...subtle or the violent; destruction of human life, viz., brandy and gunpowder. " It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible...and when there have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced any disposition... | |
 | London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Meeting for Sufferings - 1843 - 254 sider
...our business to inquire on what principles we have conducted our intercourse. It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible...and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced a disposition... | |
 | 1843 - 688 sider
...to their own soil, seems not to have been understood," observes the Report we have referred to ; " Europeans have entered their borders uninvited, and when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they evinced a disposition... | |
 | 1843 - 258 sider
...Europeans have entered their borders uninvited, and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced a disposition to live in their own country. " If they have been found upon their... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 794 sider
...protection of their rights. This is one of the observations of the Report : — " It may be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible right to their own soil — a sacred right, however, which appears not lo have been understood by this country." That Report was... | |
 | sir robert peel bart - 1853 - 870 sider
...protection of their rights. This is one of the observations of the report : — " It may be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible right to their own soil — a sacred right, however, which appears not to have been understood by this country." That report was... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - 1891 - 642 sider
.... . . ' ' It might be presumed, that the native inhabitants of any land have an incon' trovertible right to their own soil ; a plain and sacred right,...and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted ' lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors, if they have ' evinced... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1883 - 712 sider
...all testimony concurs in asserting, threatens to exterminate the New Zealand race;" and to declare that the native inhabitants " of any land have an incontrovertible right to their own soil." In 1838, the popular author William Howitt 2 published a scathing diatribe upon the horrors which,... | |
 | 1900 - 426 sider
...potent instruments for the subtle or violent destruction of human life, namely, brandy and gunpowder. Europeans have entered their borders uninvited, and, when there, have not only acted as if they were undoubted lords of the soil, but have punished the natives as aggressors if they have evinced a disposition... | |
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It might be presumed that the native inhabitants of any land have an incontrovertible right to their own soil: a plain and sacred right, however, which seems not to have been understood. Europeans have entered their borders uninvited, and, when there,... 
