It is probable that the Indians would have had control of these lands for a century yet but for the war.

We must conclude, therefore, that wars are not always evils unmixed with some good.
Prior to the rebellion the great mass of the people were satisfied to remain near the scenes of their birth.

In fact an immense majority of the whole people did not feel secure against coming to want should they move among entire strangers.

So much was the country divided into small communities that localized idioms had grown up, so that you could almost tell what section a person was from by hearing him speak.

Before, new territories were settled by a "class"; people who shunned contact with others; people who, when the country began to settle up around them, would push out farther from civilization.